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Learn moreHistorically, major women artists have been excluded from the mainstream art canon. Aligned with the resurgence of feminism in pop culture, Broad Strokes offers an entertaining corrective to that omission. Art historian Bridget Quinn delves into the lives and careers of fifteen brilliant female artists in this smart, feisty, educational, and enjoyable book.
Replete with beautiful reproductions of the artistsโ works and contemporary portraits of each artist by renowned illustrator Lisa Congdon, this is art history from 1600 to the present day for the modern art lover, reader, and feminist.
Bridget Quinn is a writer, art history scholar, and educator. She has worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and taught art history and architecture at Portland State University, the San Francisco Waldorf High School, and other institutions. A grateful denizen of that lively creative incubator, the San Francisco Writersโ Grotto, she is also a contributor and advisory board member for Narrative magazine. Her work has been a finalist for the Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction and has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her personal essay โAt Swim, Two Girlsโ was included in The Best American Sports Writing 2013.
Tavia Gilbert has recorded hundreds of titles across a wide span of genres, including Erica Spindler romantic thrillers, John Scalzi science fiction, Jeaniene Frost fantasy.ย She received four Audies nominations and won three Audiofile Earphones Awards for titles The Obituary Writer, Sing Them Home and The Day of the Pelican.ย In addition to voice acting, Gilbert is an accomplished producer, singer and theater actor.
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โYour Art History 101 syllabus just got a lot more fun.โ
โA terrific essay collection with quick and pithy profiles of famous and not-famous women artistsโฆSpunky, attitudinal, smart writing, excellent color reproductions.โ
โCan you name five women artists? That question, which launched a recent social media campaign, receives a beautiful answer in art historian Quinn and illustrator-writer Congdonโs accessible and intimate tour of fifteen female artists from the seventeenth century to the present.โ
โIn her entertaining and accessible debut, Quinn mixes biography, art history, and womenโs studiesโฆQuinn skillfully examines the lives of an eclectic group of artists and the treatment of their work over time, mixing in comments from art historians and her own personal anecdotesโฆThe color reproductions add to this bookโs appeal, giving readers a chance to appreciate the artistsโ work as well as Quinnโs upbeat writing.โ
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