The Story of Art Without Men
By Katy Hessel
- Genre
- Art, Culture & Creative Life
- Publisher
- Hutchinson Heinemann (Penguin Random House UK)
- Publication year
- 2022
- ISBN
- 9781529151145
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. It profiles women artists from the Renaissance to today. It won the 2022 Waterstones Book of the Year and became an...
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.