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This survey of women-led fashion design centered around the twentieth and twenty-first centuries emphasizes the creative agency and artistic legacy of female creators

From architects and product designers to textile artists and digital innovators Women Design profiles a selection of the most dynamic female designers from the modern era showcasing their finest work and celebrating their enduring influence Design throughout history has been profoundly shaped and enhanced by the creativity of women as practitioners commentators educators and commissioners But in a narrative that eagerly promotes their male counterparts their contributions are all too often overlooked Women Design seeks to redress that balance delving into the lives and works of some of the most talented design minds of the 20th and 21st centuries from architects and artists to designers of all stripes Through 21 engaging profiles Women Design rediscovers and revels in the work of pioneers such as Eileen Gray Lora Lamm and Lella Vignelli while shining a spotlight on modern day trailblazers including Kazuyo Sejima Hella Jongerius and Neri Oxman Richly illustrated with beautiful archival imagery this is a rare glimpse into the working worlds of some of the most influential forces in contemporary design Detailed text from design historian Libby Sellers brings the lives and work of these fascinating women to life exploring how they overcame the challenge

This pioneering book stands as the most comprehensive treatment of the lives, ideas and art works of the remarkable group of women who were an essential part of the Surrealist movement. Frida Kahlo, Meret Oppenheim and Dorothea Tanning, among many others, became an embodiment of their age as they struggled towards artistic maturity and their own 'liberation of the spirit' in the context of the Surrealist revolution. Their stories and their achievements are presented here against the background of the turbulent decades of the 1920s, 30s and 40s, and the war that forced Surrealism into exile in New York and Mexico.With 145 illustrations in colour

Small smart essential a chronological introduction to women artists through 500 years of history providing a rich understanding of key female artists from the Baroque to today

Firmly established as one of the premier histories of women in the fine arts, Nancy G. Heller''s "Women Artists returns in an expanded fourth edition. With coverage of the 1990s and the beginning of the new millennium, nearly half the volume is now devoted to the remarkable period from 1960 to the present, when women artists emerged as the most dynamic force in contemporary art. New to this edition are innovative contemporary American artists such as Janine Antoni and Judith Schaechter, as well as major international figures, including Iran''s Shirin Neshat, Shahzia Sikander from Pakistan, and the Icelandic sculptor and performance artist Katrin Sigurdardottir. As in past editions, all the artists'' works are represented in large-format color reproductions, and the artists'' careers are examined in concise critical biographies.

This book, edited by Ascensión Mazuela-Anguita, brings together nine chapters by scholars from Europe and the United States which present recent research into different aspects of the role of women in the configuration of music networks from the early modern period onwards. The focus is on discussion of women?s music networks in the context of an interdisciplinary approach, including authors from the fields of musicology, but also philology, modern languages, book history, and literature. The overall aim of this volume is to offer a radically different approach on western musical culture, by using a pioneering combination of sources and methodologies other than those employed in the traditional creation-centred musicology. This combination is required to challenge women?s invisibility in music history and allows us to establish dialogues between periods as distant as the fifteenth and the twentieth centuries. Contributors are Colleen Baade, Anne J. Cruz, M. Merce Gras, Alicia Lopez Carral, Maria Palacios, Jose Manuel Pedrosa, Laurie Stras, Melanie Traversier, Laura Ventura Nieto, and Veronica Zaragoza. Ascension Mazuela-Anguita, PhD (2012), Universitat de Barcelona, is an Associate Professor (tenured) at the Universidad de Granada. She has published widely on women, music, and culture in the early modern Hispanic world.

This book investigates the popularity and success of contemporary women performers in bullfighting culture which has been framed by a discourse of traditionalist masculinity This examination of the changing situation of women in the bullfighting world is used to explore the ways in which gender is represented enacted and negotiated in contemporary Spain The bullfight in the 1990s is in an ambiguous position it is a traditional performance in a changing consumer society In order to survive it needs to adapt itself to a wider social context and in particular to international media coverage It is in this context that the current success of women performers is located However women performers are a contested phenomenon in the bullfighting world there is heated debate over their acceptability much of which focuses on the body Moreover the entry of women into the bullfight questions existing definitions of the sport s ritual structure and of gender relations in Spain Thoroughly researched and compelling to read Women and Bullfighting addresses these issues and argues that existing traditionalist approaches to gender bullfighting and ritual in Spain need to be revised in order to locate women bullfighters in the context of a richly varied culture w

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