A Little Feminist History of Art

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How is women's experience reflected in art? What do we now consider art because its boundaries were widened? And how has feminist thought shaped the visual culture we know?

A Little Feminist History of Art celebrates one of the most ambitious, influential and enduring artistic movements to emerge from the twentieth century. It engages with themes of gender inequality, sexuality, domestic life, personal experience and the female body.

The book presents fifty outstanding works created from the late 1960s to the present day. They reflect the lives and experiences of women as well as the changing position of women artists, and reveal how feminist ideals and politics have shaped visual culture. The selection spans drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, installation and performance art, made by artists who expanded the very definition of art and made it more inclusive.

The text is deliberately concise and pointed, which makes it an ideal first orientation in feminist art as well as a prompt for further reading. It is also a fitting gift for anyone interested in feminism and the history of sexuality and gender.

Charlotte Mullins is an art critic, writer and broadcaster. She has written widely on women artists, including Rachel Whiteread, Cecily Brown, Jenny Saville and Paula Rego. She is the author of numerous books, among them Lives of the Great Artists (a children's book published as Charlie Ayres, 2008), Picturing People (2015) and Rachel Whiteread (2017), and is a regular contributor to Front Row and Saturday Review on BBC Radio 4.