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The Story of Art Without Men

As Jennifer Higgie writes on the blurb on the back of this book ‘Outraged and celebratory, it’s chock-full of female trailblazers . . . Brilliantly readable.’

Katy Hessel is an art historian and founder of @thegreatwomenartists. This book is a perspective-shifting revision of the story of art. There are, of course, economic reasons for the sidelining of women artists but Hessel reveals the women artists who were working in the Dutch Golden Age, the astonishing work of postwar female artists in Latin America and the women defining art in the 2020s. The canon of definitive artists that make up our general understanding of art history needs constant evaluation and assessment but Hessel’s book is a great starting place.

Paperback. 566 pages

Measurements:

13cm x 19.8cm x 3cm