The Artemisia Files: Artemisia Gentileschi for Feminists and Other Thinking People

Book Overview

One of the first female artists to achieve recognition in her own time, Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) became instantly popular in the 1970s when feminist art historians "discovered" her and argued vehemently for a place for her in the canon of Italian baroque painters. Featured alongside her father, Orazio Gentileschi, in a recent exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Artemisia has continued to stir interest though her position in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226035824
• ISBN13: 9780226035826
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.0"