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Key Articles:
Women and Art History (revised Dec. 29, 2003), in particular sec. II ("Western World"), part 4: Feminist Critiques (Griselda Pollack)
Feminism and Art (Lisa Tickner)
Dictionary of Women Artists
Presents substantial entries on women artists working in a wide variety of media (excluding architecture, design, and fashion) from the Middles Ages to the present in Europe, America, and Australasia. Opens with introductory essays examining the training opportunities and changing work conditions for women artists since the medieval period. The actual dictionary includes 600 entries restricted to women artists of the Western tradition born before 1945. Entries also include a list of selected individual exhibitions, selected writings, and substantial bibliographies.
Creative Arts Reference N 8354 .D53 1997
An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born before 1900
Provides essential biographical information on more than 21,000 women painters, sculptors, printmakers, and illustrators born before 1900. The scope is international. Each entry includes a short bibliography.
Creative Arts Reference N 8354 .P47 1985
A Biographical Dictionary of Women Artists in Europe and America since 1850
Presents brief biographical overviews and a small bibliography for each artist born after 1850. Contains numerous reproductions.
Creative Arts Reference N 6757 .D86 1990
Contemporary American Women Sculptors
Provides essential documentation on United States women sculptors alive in 1986. Entries include education and training, selected individual and group exhibitions, public and private collections, awards, brief bibliographies, and an artist's statement. Each entry features a photograph illustrating a major direction in the artist's work.
Creative Arts Reference NB 212 .W37 1986
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary
Comprehensive coverage of 20th-century women artists from Canada, Mexico, and the United States born before 1960. Each entry concludes with a brief bibliography. Includes b/w reproductions of one key artwork by each artist.
Creative Arts Reference N 6503 .N67 1995
Women Artists of Color: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook to 20th-Century Artists in the Americas
Divides into four sections on women artists: Native American, Latin American, African American, and Asian Pacific American. Entry on each artist includes career summary, lists of exhibitions and recent group exhibitions, publications, artist statement, and biographical essay. Defines itself as "a modest attempt to rectify the inequality of information on women artists of color."
Creative Arts Reference N 8354 .W656 1999
Latin American Women Artists, Kahlo and Look Who Else: A Selective, Annotated Bibliography
Essential guide to books, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, theses, articles, and video recordings on Latin American women artists of the 20th century. The bibliography divides into sections on individual artists and general works, and the appendixes list collective exhibitions and artists by country.
Creative Arts Reference N 6502.5 .P84 1996
Women Artists and Designers in Europe since 1800: An Annotated Bibliography
Provides bibliographic citations and abstracts for publications on selected women artists and designers working in Europe between 1800 and the present. Coverage includes reference works, monographs, and exhibition catalogs, but not periodicals or essay collections. Divides into 3 main sections: general, specialist media, and individual practitioners. Vol. 1 covers design and the decorative arts, vol. 2 the fine arts and photography. Vol. 2 includes an essential general index for the both volumes and an index of artists and designers by country.
Creative Arts Reference N 6757 .M33 1998
A Gallery of Her Own: An Annotated Bibliography of Women in Victorian Painting
Index and annotated bibliography devoted to the artistic contributions and activities of women in 19th-century Britain. Coverage includes books, periodicals, exhibition catalogs and reviews, advertisements, and newspapers. The chronologically arranged bibliography divides into 4 chapters (with introductory essays) on painters; exhibitions, models, and criticism; art schools; and reviews. The index of annotations is essential for locating material on a particular artist.
Creative Arts Reference ND 467.5 .V52 H37 1997
An International List of Books and Articles on Contemporary Feminist Art Practice
An outstanding, alphabetically arranged bibliography, constantly updated. Prepared by N.Paradoxa.
Women Artists: An Historical, Contemporary, and Feminist Bibliography
Focus is on women's art history, feminist criticism, and feminist theory. Divides into three sections: general works (books, periodicals, catalogs--with brief annotations), individual artists (arranged by century), and needlework. Entries for individual artists include overview, bibliography (mostly annotated), and key collections holdings the artist's works. Omits women architects.
Creative Arts Reference N 8354 .P54 1994
Women in the Fine Arts: A Bibliography and Illustration Guide
Focuses on resources that are especially scacre, are primary starting points of research, or represent the most columinous collections of biographical data and illustrative materials available on the more famous artists. Divides into two general sections: a bibliography (including lists of illustrations) of books, periodical articles, exhibition catalogs, and newpapers; and an alphabetical index refering back to the bibliographical entries.
Creative Arts Reference N 8354 .A47 1991
American Women Artists Past and Present: A Selected Bibliographical Guide
Includes painters, sculptors, graphic artists, photographers, and conceptual artists.
Creative Arts Reference N 6536 .T87 1984
Women Artists in the United States: A Selective Bibliography and Resource Guide on the Fine and Decorative Arts, 1750-1986
Very extensive bibliography organized by subject. Part 1: Critics, organizations, and resources (manuscript repositories and special collections, biographical reference tools, and periodicals; Part 2: Literature of the fiield, subdivided into documents on women's art (painting, sculpture, graphics, photography, performance, decorative arts, contemporary crafts, and folk art), and documents on women artists. Includes primary and secondary sources on women artists born or active in the U.S. from 1750-1985.
Creative Arts Reference N 6536 .W68 1990
Women Artists: Recognition and Reappraisal from the Early Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century
Karen Petersen and J. J. Wilson)
Stacks N 43 .P45 1976
Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany
(ed. Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard)
Stacks N 72 .F45 F44 1982
"The Feminist Critique of Art History"
(T. Gouma-Peterson and P. Mathews) Art Bulletin 69/3 (1987): 326-57.
Stacks N 11 .C4 v.69
Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism, and Histories of Art
(Griselda Pollock)
Stacks N 72 .F45 P64 1988 [and 2003--reprint]
Women, Art, and Power: And Other Essays
(Linda Nochlin)
Stacks N 72 .F45 N64 1988
"The Art Historical Canon: Sins of Omission"
(Nanette Salomon) in (En)gendering Knowledge (ed. J. Hartmann andE. Messer-Davidow, 1991); reprinted in The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology (ed. Donald Preziosi), 344-56.
Stacks N 7480 .A79 1998
"Feminist Art Criticism (12 Article Anthology)"
Art Journal 50 (summer 1991).
Stacks N 81 .C6 v. 50
Feminist Art Criticism: An Anthology
(ed. Donald Preziosi)
N 72 .F45 F445 1991
The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History
(ed. Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard)
Stacks N 72 .F45 E96 1992
New Feminist Criticism: Art, Identity, Action
(ed. Joanna Frueh, Cassandra L. Langer, and Arlene Raven)
Stacks N 72 .F45 N48 1994
New Feminist Art Criticism: Critical Strategies
(ed. Katy Deepwell)
Stacks N 72 .F45 N45 1995
Women Artists and Modernism
(ed. Katy Deepwell)
Stacks NX 164 .W65 W65 1998
With Other Eyes: Looking at Race and Gender in Visual Culture
(ed. Lisa Bloom)
Stacks N 72 .F45 W57 1999
Differential Aesthetics: Art Practices, Philosophy, and Feminist Understandings
(ed. Penny Florence and Nicola Foster)
Stacks Stacks N 72 .F45 D54 2000
Art and Feminism
(ed. Helena Reckitt)
Stacks N 72 .F45 A78 2001
Feminism-Art-Theory: An Anthology, 1968-2000
(ed. Hilary Robinson)
Stacks N 72 .F45 F442 2001
Singular Women: Writing the Artist
(ed. Kristen Frederickson and Sarah E. Webb)
Stacks N 72 .F45 S55 2003
Women's Studies International
Indexes journal literature, books, and mixed media from 10 women's studies databases, 1972 to present.
Contemporary Women's Issues
Indexes and provides full text to 600 journals, newsletters and reports relating to women's studies, 1992 to present.
Useful subject entries:
feminism + [any topic word or name]
images of women
iconography--women
women--representation
Academic Search Premier (full text articles and citations)
LexisNexis Academic (full-text newspaper articles)
Women Artists: Web Resources--Index of Web Sites
Provides links to Web sites featuring women artists organized alphabetically. Part of ArtsEdNet, The Getty's Art Education Web site.
National Museum of Women in the Arts
"The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) brings recognition to the achievements of women artists of all periods and nationalities by exhibiting, preserving, acquiring, and researching art by women and by educating the public concerning their accomplishments."
The Varo Registry of Women Artists
"An electronic registry of artwork by contemporary international women artists."
Women Artists: Self-Portraits & Representations of Womanhood from the Medieval Period to the Present
From California State University, Pomona.
Women Who Ruled: Queens, Goddesses, Amazons 1500-1650
Online exhibition of 100 Old Master paintings, prints, book illustrations, drawings, sculpture, and decorative arts objects from the Renaissance and Baroque periods from the University of Michigan Museum of Art.
N.Paradoxa: Magazines List (List of Perodicals on Women in Art)
Divides into several subsections: magazines on women's art practice; periodicals no longer published; and past special issues on women artists, feminism, and feminist art history.
Available at Brandeis:
Helicon Nine (1979-89)
"A journal of women's arts and letters."
Stacks NX 164 .W65 H44
Heresies (1977-93)
"A feminist publication on art and politics."
Stacks: +HQ 1101 .H43
n.paradoxa (1996- )
"The only international feminist art journal exploring feminist theory and contemporary women's art practices."
Woman's Art Journal (1980- )
Stacks N 72 .F45 W64
