Description: A series of 10 volumes that contains 1,500 profiles of inspiring women from around the world. Each book in this series introduces readers to 150 extraordinary women in a specific area of achievement. A semi-encyclopedic reference work, subjects are taken from around the world and from all periods of history to show that women have long made important contributions to human endeavor in all walks of life.

Most art history books today are dominated by discussions of the works of male artists, but women artists have been around just as long and were involved in almost all of the major art movements. Readers of this volume will learn about women sculptors, painters, photographers, architects, cartoonists, weavers, potters, designers, manuscript illuminators, and also art patrons and collectors, without whom some of the world's greatest art collections wouldn't exist. Mary Cassatt, Lee Krasner, Georgia O'Keefe, Ende, Frida Kahlo, Helen Beatrix Potter, Augusta Savage, and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney are among the greats covered.

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