WOMEN ARTISTS

Focusing on fifty diverse women artists, from Lavinia Fontana and A. Gentileschi through J. Chicago, A. Mendieta and the Guerrilla G irls to B. Kruger, C. Sherman and L. Bourgeois, this book equips the reader with a general understanding of the history of art by wo men, as well as an appreciation of its most outstanding figures. Traditionally women have been among art's favoured objects of repre sentation, while their contributions as art producers have been subordinated to those of men.