
Amazing Artists and Designers
Rita Petruccioli
(Illustrator)Description
Stunningly illustrated, absorbing stories introducing kids to women who have reached for the stars and stretched the boundaries of art, design, and culture, changing the world along the way.
Meet incredible women who had a worldwide impact in the fields of arts and design. Includes Artemisia Gentileschi, Rosa Bonheur, Vivienne Westwood, Coco Chanel, Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keefe, Kara Walker, Zaha Hadid, and many more. Every story comes with an engaging activity that will nurture a child's own varied skills and inspire them to pursue a treasured goal or aspiration. It's exceptional reading for the next generation of go-getters, trailblazers, doers, and dreamers!
Product Details
Publisher | Sourcebooks Explore |
Publish Date | September 01, 2018 |
Pages | 48 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9781438012179 |
Dimensions | 9.7 X 7.3 X 0.4 inches | 0.4 pounds |
About the Author
Georgia Amson-Bradshaw is a children's writer and editor who has worked on a number of award-winning science book for kids. She won the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize for Eye Benders and the London Science Museum Activity Book award for This Book Thinks You're a Scientist. She remembers how eye-opening and inspiring her favorite books were when she was a child and so she strives to have the same effect on the children who read her books.
Rita Petruccioli is an illustrator and comic book artist with projects in advertising, magazines, textile design, and children's books. Rita attended the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome and ENSAD in Paris, and her works have been exhibited in Italy, France, Germany and South Korea. When she's not drawing, she's engaged in workshops on gender stereotypes in comics.
Reviews
--Living In Random, inrandom.com
"This installment in the Brilliant Women series (4 titles) opens with a startling statistic--"only between three and five percent of the artworks on display in the most famous galleries across Europe and the USA are by women artists"--and the colorful, brief biographies of artists and designers that follow demonstrate what an oversight that is. The women featured vary in background, medium, and era, and together they show a rich picture of the history of women in the arts. The impressive scope, which includes folk artists, architects, and fashion designers among the usual suspects, will go a long way toward introducing a diverse array of women in the arts to young readers."
--Booklist
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