
Amazons in the Drawing Room
The Art of Romaine Brooks
Whitney Chadwick(Author)
University of California Press
1st Edition
Published on 20. September 2000
Book
Hardback
128 pages
978-0-520-22565-7 (ISBN)
Description
Presenting a comprehensive analysis of the life and art of Romaine Brooks, this text reproduces in colour 34 of the 40 nudes and portraits she painted, as well as 37 automatic pen-and-ink drawings. The first female painter since Artemisia Gentileschi in the 17th century to portray an ideal of heroic femininity, Romaine Brooks (1874-1970), like her contemporary Gwen John, shaped an image of the androgynous New Woman for the 20th century.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
34 color illustrations, 29 b-w illustrations, 36 line drawings
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 241 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
816 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-22565-7 (9780520225657)
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Persons
Whitney Chadwick is Professor of Art History at San Francisco State University and author of Women, Art, and Society (1990) as well as other books and articles on women in the arts and on surrealism. Joe Lucchesi is a visiting instructor of Art History at Carleton College, and curator of the exhibition of Brooks's art organized by the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.