Modernism and Feminism : Australian women artists 1900-1940

A$150 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Sydney : Craftsman House, 1996. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 232, illustrated. A fine copy. This book answers the question posed by a number of male art historians and critics: Why were there so many influential women artists in the inter-war period? The book establishes a female context for women s art in Australia and demonstrates how women artists belonged to a female network which fostered Modernism. Trove Contents: Australian women artists and modernism The institutional and social context for art in Australia Women s Emancipation, the professions and the media The European experience Women and the arts and crafts movement Modernist art theory and feminism Art and design: the career of Margaret Preston Decoration and the art of the print.

• Binding: Hardcover

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