Chronicles the life of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo from her childhood near Mexico City during the Mexican Revolution to her association with the Communist party.
Discusses the lives and work of Mary Cassatt, Georgia O'Keefe, Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson, Helen Frankenthaler, Elaine de Kooning, Sylvia Stone, and other American women artists.
A history of women artists, focusing on the ways in which women have succeeded and prospered in the traditionally male field from 1500 through the 1990s.
Traces the achievements of women in the arts throughout history, and includes approximately three hundred color plates of works by female artists spanning five centuries.
Contains alphabetically arranged entries that explore the lives of over 130 American women who have had an impact on the field of visual arts; and includes a general bibliography, index, and photographs.
Nick Shay and Klara Sax knew each other once, intimately, and they meet again in the American desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life; she is an artist who has made a blood struggle for independence.Underworld is a story of men and women together and apart, seen in deep, clear detail and in stadium-sized panoramas, shadowed throughout by the overarching conflict of the Cold War. It is a novel that accepts every challenge of these extraordinary times -- Don DeLillo's greatest and most powerful work of fiction.
Huey Valentine, owner of Gallery Valentine, and his friend, retired lawyer Abigail Thurmond, take artist Rebecca Simms under their wing when she arrives on Pawleys Island to hide from her past and begin a new life.
