Women In Art Archives

Women In Art

Picasso, Paul and Nusch Eluard, Man Ray, Roland Penrose, Ady Fidelin, Eileen Agar, Dora Maar and Lee Miller in the late '30s, navigating art and friendship against a grim political backdrop.

A Vast Horizon: Artists and Lovers, Freedom and War ...

Anna Thomasson

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A study of the work and influence of Gwen Raverat, Agnes Miller Parker, Clare Leighton, and Joan Hassall. (This is very interesting despite the slightly disappointing production.)

Enchanted Wood: Engraving a Place for Women Artists in Rural Britain ...

Kristin Bluemel

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Surprisingly, this is the first biography of this great sculptor.

Knife-Woman: The Life of Louise Bourgeois

Marie-Laure Bernadac

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The catalogue to a major retrospective at Tate Modern.

Tracey Emin: A Second Life

Maria Balshaw

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The catalogue to a major retrospective at Tate Modern.

Tracey Emin: A Second Life

Maria Balshaw

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Emin in long conversation with the indefatigable Gayford.

My Heart is This: Tracey Emin on Painting

Martin Gayford

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Photographs and brief texts by Goldin about her family - particularly her sister - and the trauma and addiction that occupied so much of their lives. Coincides with a retrospective at the G... read more

Sisters, Saints and Sibyls

Nan Goldin

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The first proper retrospective of GJ will move from Cardiff to Scotland, then to Washington and Yale. This is a lovely, well-illustrated catalogue.

Gwen John: Strange Beauties

Rachel Stratton

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On the artist's curved lines at a time when modernism was exploring cubes and rectangles. The catalogue to the show at Hauser & Wirth Paris.

Sophie Taeuber-Arp: La regle des courbes / The Rule of Curves ...

Briony Fer

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For the exhibition at the RA.

Rose Wylie

Katharine Stout

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Who designed the road sign for 'road works' or 'old people crossing' etc? This is the first monograph dedicated to the wonderful, influential work of perhaps the most widely recognised desig... read more

Margaret Calvert: Woman at Work

Margaret Calvert

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From an exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery on this wonderful Danish artist (1859-1935), celebrated in Denmark but obscure abroad. She was born in Skägen, the northernmost tip of Denm... read more

Anna Ancher’s Light

Helen Hillyard

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This book on the Kenyan-born British studio potter originally accompanied a show at The Hepworth Wakefield in 2019. It shows 44 of Odundo's beautiful, highly finished pieces alongside other ... read more

The Journey of Things

Magdalene Odundo

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With an apt nod to Vasily Grossman in its subtitle, this offbeat memoir doubles as a treatise on the dangers of totalitarianism. From the annexation of Crimea in 2014, when Alyokhina was re... read more

Political Girl: Life and Fate in Russia

Maria Alyokhina

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Andersson is a contemporary Swedish painter who uses loose washes and strong graphic lines to beautiful and mysterious effect. There's a stillness to her landscapes and interiors that echo H... read more

Mamma Andersson: Adieu Maria Magdalena

Mamma Andersson

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Daily inspirations drawing on the work of many female artists. By the author of The Story of Art Without Men.

How to Live an Artful Life

Katy Hessel

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Laing sat for Joffe in 2016 and the two have been exchanging ideas ever since. The upshot is this good-looking book, nicely produced in a linen cover, of over 100 paintings by Joffe with ten... read more

Painting Writing Texting

Chantal Joffe

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The art - or work - of living, by the great photographer who also happens to string thoughts and words together better than most.

Art Work: On the Creative Life

Sally Mann

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The author of acclaimed biographies of Holbein and Turner has had the inspired idea of looking at Angelika Kauffman and Elizabeth Vigée Le Brun together: both big stars in their time, they ... read more

Mrs Kauffman and Madame Le Brun: The Extraordinary Entwined Lives of T ...

Franny Moyle

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The catalogue for a new Hayward exhibition about the artist's interest in books, folklore, fairy tales and nursery rhymes.

Paula Rego: Visions of English Literature

Marco Livingstone

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Monumental paintings, portraits and still lives by this tremendous and all-but-forgotten C17th woman painter, whose work suggests that most unusually she painted her (male) nudes from life. ... read more

Michaelina Wautier

Jean Bastiaensen

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This new, comprehensive exploration of Miller's life foregrounds her too-often-sidelined work as a surrealist. Accompanied by a series of essays, including a personal reflection from Deborah... read more

Lee Miller

Hilary Floe

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This new, comprehensive exploration of Miller's life foregrounds her too-often-sidelined work as a surrealist. Accompanied by a series of essays, including a personal reflection from Deborah... read more

Lee Miller

Hilary Floe

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As elegant and tasteful a book as you'd expect. Including film stills, previously unpublished photography and contributions from Olivia Laing, Joanna Hogg and Luca Guadagnino.

Tilda Swinton

Tilda Swinton

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Eighteen women over five centuries: their travails, triumphs, influence, legacy - and their houses. Wonderful social history.

Mistress: A History of Women and their Country Houses ...

Anthony Fletcher

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Less well known than her brother (Marcel), she was also a Dadaist. This accompanies a retrospective in Zurich.

Suzanne Duchamp: Retrospective

Talia Kwartler

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A short biography of the brave lady in the hat.

Daring: The Life and Art of Elisabeth Vig?e Le Brun ...

Jordana Pomeroy

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Catalogue of an exhibition at the Ashmolean, in which William's daughter - who was crucial to the work that went out under his name - is brought into the light.

May Morris: The Essence and Soul of Beautiful Embroidery ...

Lynn Hulse

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Born in Russia in 1894, Gala escaped the Revolution and lived in Paris with Paul Eluard and then Max Ernst before meeting Dali in 1929. Klein argues that she, as the Mother of Surrealism wit... read more

Surreal: The Extraordinary Life of Gala Dali

Michèle Gerber Klein

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Married to Henry Lamb, she modelled for Augustus John, Jacob Epstein and others. Described by Keynes as having a busier sex life than "the rest of us put together" - and he was no slouch - s... read more

A Bloomsbury Ingenue: The Lives and Loves of Euphemia Lamb ...

Andrea Obholzer

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An authoritative biography of the great chatelaine of Charleston.

Vanessa Bell: The Life and Art of a Bloomsbury Radical ...

Wendy Hitchmough

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The most substantial book so far on Artemisia Gentileschi.

Artemisia

Asia Graziano

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The first book on Hepworth's stringed sculptures, paintings and drawings. Smartly produced without a dustjacket, just clean-cut boards, for an exhibition at Piano Nobile.

Barbara Hepworth: Strings

Stephen Feeke

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From MoMA, on a recently found portfolio of her naturalistic early botanical work from 1919-20.

Hilma af Klint: What Stands Behind the Flowers

Jodi Hauptman

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A dual-biography that shows the similarities between the passionate siblings as well as their differing ways of being in the world. Mackrell, the well-known dance critic, is also the author ... read more

Artists, Siblings, Visionaries: The Life and Loves of Gwen and Augustu ...

Judith Mackrell

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A fascinating study of art and national identity which considers the influence of foreign artists such as Holbein and Gentileschi, and foreign influences in the work of Hogarth, Kauffman and... read more

The Foreign Invention of British Art: From Renaissance to Enlightenmen ...

Leslie Primo

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