Nancy Spero

by Jo Anna Isaak and Jon Bird

American artist Nancy Spero (b.1929) concentrates on the depiction of women: mythological women, movie women, tortured women. Inspired by classical and modern sources, she collages and imprints her contemporary goddesses on to long, papyrus-like friezes that scroll around museum walls.

Her subject matter, which has ranged from the writings of Artaud to the Vietnam War, mirrors her life. Working in Paris in the cultural ferment of the 1960s,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714833401
• ISBN13: 9780714833408
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Phaidon Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.8" x 11.4"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary