Published in 1986
152 pages
Frances Borzello is a British art historian and scholar, feminist art critic and author. Her work specializes in the social history of art, and includes study on the social position of European woman artists in the context of their society, the study of female self-portraits and female nudes. She authored the book Seeing Ourselves: Women’s Self Portraits, which has been continuously published since 1998 and has 30 editions. Her work widely recognized as contribution to the fields of art history and women’s studies.
Natacha Ledwidge is a freelance illustrator who drew for Harpers magazine as well as many others including: Vogue, Good Housekeeping, House & Garden, The Spectator and The Royal Society of Literature magazine. Clients have included: Marks & Spencer, Greenpeace, Sotheby’s, Oil of Olay, The Chelsea Arts Club, British Gas, Sainsburys, Penguin books, The Telegraph and The Times. She illustrated many books including 2 boxed sets of Dorothy Sayers Novels and The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook. Other illustrated books include The Great Big Book of Glorious Girls published by Penguin, Coco Chanel, her life and loves, and A Graphic Guide to Women Artists published by Camden Press. Most recently she illustrated the Emily Windsnap mermaid books by Liz Kessler.
What is this book about?
This book is a good introduction to anyone who is not familiar with seeing or thinking of women as artists. The text goes into detail of the reasons why most people don’t see women as artists or think they even existed in the past –it goes into the psychology of society and how women were not included in the history of art. There are doodle-like illustrations that accompany the text, so it’s good for people who prefer to learn with visuals along with words, hence, the “graphic” part of the title, Women Artists: A Graphic Guide.
