Originals: American Women Artists

by Eleanor Munro

Book Overview

At the end of the 1970s, Eleanor Munro embarked upon a series of interviews with some of the leading visual artists in the nation, including Georgia O'Keeffe, Alice Neel, Helen Frankenthaler, Louise... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067123109X
• ISBN13: 9780671231095
• Release Date: June 1979
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Janson of psychoaesthetic art history

As Louise Bourgeois said, "Mai, c'est serieux!" Munro covers Cassatt through Kikki Smith using history rather than iconography and enlivens the telling with her many terrific interviews. Especially interesting was the difference between her experience interviewing women artists in the nineties versus interviewing them in the seventies. Munro found it extremely hard to reach these new celebrity artists who, like men, wouldn't share their fears or failures for history. A classic which happens to be about women.