women in art

"Featuring sketching and illustration instructions, basic stitches, embroidery techniques, and six projects with portraits of famous women, this book is a must-have tool for hands-on artists and crafters. If you're a beginning embroiderer, start with the basic stitches and embroidery instructions at the beginning of the book. Essential tools, warm-up exercises, tips for embroidering facial features and hair, and general information on embroidery will give you the know-how you need to get started"--.

Illustrated instructions for drawing manga style women.

Contains a conversation between Jeff Koons and Dorothy Lichtenstein, a chronology of Roy Lichtenstein's life, and 130 images of paintings, drawings, sources, and documentary photographs, including twenty-two plates featuring the "Girl" paintings.

Introduces examples of women superheroes from comic books from the 1930's to the present, with a decade-by-decade survey of trend's and women's roles in the industry.

Paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, and other works of art from the National Museum of Art, Smithsonian Institution accompanied by selected poems and prose pieces.

Provides a general introduction to the history of women's involvement in the visual arts from the Middle Ages through the early twenty-first century, focusing on women who have chosen to work professionally in painting, sculpture, or related media, and studying the intersection between women as artists and women as subjects of art.