Close-Up: Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Lotte Laserstein, Frida Kahlo, Alice Neel, Marlene Dumas, Cindy
Description
Gender interventions and formal innovations in female portraiture, through works by Kahlo, Sherman, Neel, Dumas, Peyton and more
This superbly conceived publication looks at nine women artists whose careers were devoted primarily to portraiture, analyzing both the work they produced and the unique ways in which each artist captured her subjects' likenesses and the spaces they inhabited.
These artists represent the development of modernist art since 1870; each has made significant contributions to art history as they complicate long-held notions of the gaze and explore the relationship between the self, the subject and the artist. Close-Up examines women painters and photographers who are known primarily for self-portraiture, such as Paula Modersohn-Becker, Frida Kahlo and Cindy Sherman; it also looks at female artists who depicted the daily lives of women and children in a creative environment that was largely disinterested in such subjects, such as Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt and Lotte Laserstein. Still other women--Alice Neel, Marlene Dumas and Elizabeth Peyton--embrace familiarity completely and depict friends and family as well as famous figures in their paintings. In essays by nine different authors, these artists and their subjects are considered individually and as part of a chronology of modern portraiture, with an emphasis on the dynamics of gender.Product Details
Price
$70.00
$65.10
Publisher
Hatje Cantz
Publish Date
December 07, 2021
Pages
344
Dimensions
7.5 X 10.2 X 1.1 inches | 2.5 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9783775747578
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Peter Geimer is a professor of art history at Freie Universita]t Berlin.
Anna-Carola Krausse is an art historian based in Berlin.
Uwe M. Schneede is a German art historian and curator of contemporary art and the former director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle.
Jennifer Thompson was a financial advisor for twenty years before discovering another passion - a passion for writing She now coaches women - one on one, through public speaking and social media on how to manage their money to manifest life on their terms.
Andreas Beyer, Universität Basel, Schweiz.