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It profiles women artists from the Renaissance to today.
Curated by intendle
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Art, Culture & Creative Life
The Story of Art Without Men
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Hutchinson Heinemann (Penguin Random House UK)
The Story of Art Without Men is a nonfiction survey of art history by the British art historian Katy Hessel, first published by Hutchinson Heinemann in September 2022.
- Published
- 2022
- Pages
- 512
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
Ernst Gombrich's The Story of Art, a standard survey for generations, mentioned almost no women; Katy Hessel's answer is not a footnote but a wholesale retelling.
Moving from the Renaissance to the present, she reintroduces artists that history mislaid - Artemisia Gentileschi, Sofonisba Anguissola, the Baroque, the Bauhaus, the present day - and argues that art's real story is incomplete without them.
Written with the accessibility of her popular podcast, it is a survey that never feels like a textbook, dense with images and momentum. intendle recommends it as an essential corrective and a genuinely thrilling read, equally at home in a classroom or on a coffee table. It won the 2022 Waterstones Book of the Year and became an international bestseller, evidence of an appetite for an art history that finally includes half the world.
A book that changes how you walk through a museum.
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Pages
512
Published
2022
Hutchinson Heinemann (Penguin Random House UK)
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Format
Hardcover
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Language
English
Art, Culture & Creative Life
ISBN
978-1529151145
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