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katrinky's review
4.0
Too intelligent to be called a "crash course," Women and Art is more a declaration by its authors, a feminist artist and an art historian, that 'women's art' has been hugely misunderstood, when it's even acknowledged, for almost as long as it has existed. Entirely readable, not too dense, and peppered with personal anecdotes from the authors in the margins to supplement the academic tone of the text. The art, obviously, is the raison d'etre. Best are the side-by-side comparisons of the same subject painted by a man and a woman- the radical shift in gaze, stance of the subject, and/or focal point of the composition is enough to queer permanently the wrong-headed, and feverishly followed, belief that the male perspective is the natural way of seeing, both in the art world and the big spinning one. Female artists have been working for as long as male ones. Here is some of the work we're missing, in between the occasional exhibit we get of women's work, presented as spectacle, not text.
ma1ena's review
3.0
“...how ‘great’ is yet another image of a nude woman displayed on a couch, no matter how well it might be painted?”
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