The obstacle race. The fortunes of women painters and their work 0374224129

Table of contents :
Introduction
The Obstacles
I Family
II Love
III The Illusion of Success
IV Humiliation
V Dimension
VI Primitivism
VII The Disappearing Oeuvre
How They Ran
VIII The Cloister
IX The Renaissance
X The Magnificent Exception
XI The Bolognese Phenomenon
XII Still Life and Flower Painting
XIII The Portraitists
XIV The Amateurs
XV The Age of Academies
XVI The Nineteenth Century
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

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