
The obstacle race
Germaine Greer · 1979
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About the book
"If men and women are equally capable of genius, why have there been no female artists of the stature of Leonardo, Titian or Poussin? In seeking to answer this question, Germaine Greer introduces us to major but underestimated figures in the history of Western painting -- Angelica Kauffmann, Natalia Goncharova, Suzanne Valadon, Berthe Morisot, Kathe Kollwitz -- and produces a brilliantly incisive and richly illustrated study. She explains the obstacles as both external and surmountable and internal and insurmountable in the race for achievement."--Publisher's description.
First sentence: "The single most striking fact about the women who made names for themselves as painters before the nineteenth century is that almost all of them were related to better-known male painters, while the proportion of male painters who were not related to other"
Book details
- Year
- 1979
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus & Giroux (T)
- Editions
- 5
- Pages
- 373
- ISBN
- 9780374224127
Data source: Wikidata
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