The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work by Dr. Germaine Greer
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The Obstacle Race
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Germaine Greer explains why there have been no female artists of the stature of Leonardo or Poussin by exploring the psychological, economic and political reasons for the virtually unchallenged patriarchalism of all western artistic establishments.
The Obstacle Race Summary
Table of Contents
Part 1 The obstacles: family; love; the illusion of success; humiliation; dimension; primitivism; the disappearing oeuvre. Part 2 How they ran: the cloister; the Renaissance; the magnificent exception; the Bolognese phenomenon; still life and flower painting; the portraitists; the amateurs; the age of academies.
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GOR010414130
9781860646775
1860646778
The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work by Dr. Germaine Greer
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Hardback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
20010302
373
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