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An exploration of the fundamental role played by women in the development of abstract art

Table of Contents

Foreword by Serges Lasvignes
Preface by Bernard Blistene

Essays
She Makes Abstraction, Christine Macel
Abstraction? Co-Creation?, Griselda Pollock
Women Artists and Abstract Photography, Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska
Stand Up Against, Right Up Against, Anne Montfort-Tanguy
Where Was Sisterhood?, Abigail Solomon-Godeau

Works
1. Art, Spiritualism and Theosophy
2. The Pioneers of Abstraction in Dance
3. Women in Vorticism
4. Women in the Russian Avant-Garde
5. Women at the Bauhaus
6. Microphotography, Pattern, Decoration, Abstraction
7. From Cercle et Carre to Abstraction-Creation
8. Creative Photography at the Texas Woman’s University
9. The Enduring Legacies of Hilla Rebay and Peggy Guggenheim
10. Finished Pictures, Polish, Candy: Women Artists of the New York School
11. Fibre Art, Soft Art
12. Eccentric Abstraction
13. Whose Voice? Women Film-Makers and Cinema History in the 1970s
14. Beyond Boundaries: Black Art in America, 1960-1980
15. The Abstract Concept of ‘Woman’: Griselda Pollock, Lucy R. Lippard, Linda Nochlin
Chronology

About the Author

Christine Macel is a French curator. She was the director of the 2017 Venice Biennale, and is chief curator at the Centre Pompidou, Paris.

Reviews

'As a survey and history of abstract art the book stands as something as complete as you could wish ... One has to be wary of describing books as ground-breaking, because the truth is they are usually built on work that has gone before and ride a rising tide. This is, however, a major contribution to art history in general and a neglected corner (if that’s the right word) in particular' - Art Book Review

'An alternative history of Abstract art' - Arts Society Review