Och: ARTH 460: Women and Western Art 1

Och: ARTH 460: Women and Western Art 1

Professor M. Och

Art History 460: Women and Western Art

Fall 2007

Bibliography

This is by no stretch of the imagination an exhaustive bibliography. However, this is an excellent bibliography to get you started on your research. Do not limit yourself to one subdivision or period outlined below, but look at all titles in every subdivision here -- there are many connections to make across periods and topics.

Reference

Borzello, Frances. A World of Our Own: Women as Artists Since the Renaissance. New York: Watson-Guptill, 2000. N 8354 .B67 2000X

Gouma-Peterson, Thelma, and Patricia Mathews. “The Feminist Critique of Art History.” Art Bulletin 69 (1987): 326-57.

• Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard, “An Exchange on the Feminist Critique of Art History.” Art Bulletin 71 (1989): 124-26.

•Thelma Gouma-Peterson and Patricia Mathews, “Reply.” Art Bulletin 71 (1989): 126-27.

Grosenick, Uta, ed. Women Artists in the 20th and 21st Century. Cologne: Taschen, 2003.

Heller, Nancy G. Women Artists: An Illustrated History. New York: Abbeville Press, 1987.

Langer, C. Feminist Art Criticism, An Annotated Bibliography. New York: G. K. Hall, 1993. N 72 F45 L36 1993

Och, Marjorie. “Fine Arts: Overview.” In Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women’s Studies, eds. Cheris Kramarae and Dale Spender. New York: Routledge, 2000.

Pettys, Chris. Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1985. N 3 P47 1985

Piland, Sherry. Women Artists: An Historical, Contemporary and Feminist Bibliography. 2nd ed. Metuchen, N.J. and London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. N 8354 .B32x 1994

Slatkin, Wendy. Women Artists in History, From Antiquity to the Twentieth Century. 3rd ed. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1996.

______. The Voices of Women Artists. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1993. NX 164 .W65 S5 1993

Witzling, Mara R., editor. Voicing Our Visions: Writings by Women Artists. New York: Universe, 1991.

Collected essays (various authors and/or broad coverage of periods)

Borzello, Frances. Seeing Ourselves: Women’s Self-Portraits. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998.

Cheney, Liana De Girolami, et al. Self-Portraits by Women Painters. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 2000. ND 1329.3 .A77 S45 2000

Frederickson, Kristen, Sarah E. Webb, editors. Singular Women: Writing the Artist. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. N 72 .F45 S55 2003

Lawrence, Cynthia, ed. Women and Art and in Early Modern Europe: Patrons, Collectors, and Connoisseurs. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. N5240 .W64 1997

Taylor, Jane H. M. and Lesley Smith, eds. Women and the Book: Assessing the Visual Evidence. London and Toronto, 1997.

General: theory and review articles

Alloway, Lawrence. “Women’s Art in the 1970s.” Art in America (1976)

Berman, Avis. “A Decade of Progress, But Could a Female Chardin Make a Living?” Artnews (October 1980): 73-79.

Broude, Norma, and Mary D. Garrard, et al. The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History. New York: Harper-Collins, 1992.

______. Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany. New York: Harper and Row, 1982.

______. “Feminist Art History and the Academy: Where Are We Now?” Women’s Studies Quarterly 15/1 and 2 (1987): 10-16.

Chadwick, Whitney. Women, Art, and Society, rev. ed. London: Thames and Hudson, 1996.

Davis, Whitney, ed. Gay and Lesbian Studies in Art History. New York: Harrington Park Press, 1994.

Deepwell, Katy, ed. New Feminist Art Criticism: Critical Strategies. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995.

Fine, Elsa Honig. Women and Art: A History of Women Painters and Sculptors from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century. Montclair: Allanheld and Schram, 1978. N 43 .F56 1978

Fowlkes, Diane L., and Charlotte S. McClure. Feminist Visions: Toward a Transformation of the Visual Arts Curriculum.

Greer, Germaine. The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and their Work. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1979.

Meskimmon, Marsha. Women Making Art: History, Subjectivity, Aesthetics. London: Routledge, 2003.

Nemser, Cindy. “Stereotypes and Women Artists.” Feminist Art Journal (April 1972).

Nochlin, Linda. “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” [1971] In Art and Sexual Politics: Women’s Liberation, Women Artists, and Art History, edited by Thomas Ness and Elizabeth Baker, pp. 1-43. New York: Macmillan, 1973.

______. Women, Art, and Power, and Other Essays. New York: Harper and Row, 1980. [Includes “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?”] N 72 .F45 N64 1988

Orenstein, Gloria Feman. “Review Essay: Art History.” Signs 1 (1975): 505-25. M’form HQ 1101 S5

Parker, Rozsika and Griselda Pollock. Framing Feminism: Art and the Women’s Movement, 1970-85. London: Pandora, 1987.

______. Old Mistresses: Women, Art and Ideology. New York: Pantheon Books, 1981, 1986.

Pollock, Griselda. Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism and the Histories of Art. London: Routledge, 1988. N 72 .F45 P64 1988

______. “Vision, Voice and Power: Feminist Art History and Marxism.” Block 6 (1982):

______. “Women, Art, and Ideology: Questions for Feminist Art Historians.” Women’s Art Journal 4 (1983): 39-47.

Rom, Christine C. “One View: The Feminist Art Journal.” Woman’s Art Journal 2/2 (1981-82): 20-24.

Russell, H. Diane. “Review Essay.” Signs 5 (1980): 468-81.

Tickner, Lisa. “Feminism, Art History, and Sexual Difference.” Genders 3 (1988): 93-128.

Warner, Marina. Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form. New York: Atheneum, 1985.

Wittkower, Rudolf and Margot. Born Under Saturn: The Character and Conduct of Artists, A Documented History from Antiquity to the French Revolution. New York: W. W. Norton, 1963.

Museum catalogues (see also periods and media below)

Harris, Anne Sutherland, and Linda Nochlin. Women Artists, 1550-1950. New York: Knopf, 1976.

Heller, Nancy G., et al. Women Artists: Works from the National Museum of Women in the Arts. New York: Rizzoli, 2000. N 8354 .N38 2000

National Museum of Women in the Arts. Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque. Milan: Skira, 2007.

Pomeroy, Jordana, et al. An Imperial Collection: Women Artists from the State Hermitage Museum. National Museum of Women in the Arts/Merrell, 2003.

Religion

Bynum, Carolyn Walker, Steven Harrell, Paula Richman, eds. Gender and Religion: On the Complexity of Symbols. Boston: Beacon Press, 1986.

Clark, Elizabeth, and Herbert Richardson, eds. Women and Religion: A Feminist Sourcebook of Christian Thought. New York: Harper and Row, 1977. BT 704 .C53 1977

Nixon, Virginia. Mary’s Mother: Saint Anne in late Medieval Europe. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004.

Parvey, Constance F. “The Theology and Leadership of Women in the New Testament.” In Religion and Sexism: Images of Woman in the Jewish and Christian Traditions, ed. Rosemary Radford Ruether. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974.

Ruether, Rosemary Radford, ed. Religion and Sexism: Images of Woman in the Jewish and Christian Traditions. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974. BV 639 .W7 R8

Stocker, Margarita. Judith: Sexual Warrior, Women, and Power in Western Culture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.

Warner, Marina. Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary. London: Wiedenfeld and Nicolson, 1976.

Prehistoric and ancient

Balsdon, J. Roman Women: Their History and Habits. London: The Bodley Head, 1962.

Blundell, Sue. Women in Ancient Greece. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Clarke, John R. “ ‘Just Like Us’: Cultural Constructions of Sexuality and Race in Roman Art.” Art Bulletin 78 (1996): 599-603.

Cohen, Beth, ed. The Distaff Side: Representing the Female in Homer’s Odyssey. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.

D’Ambra, Eve. “Representing Roman Women.” Journal of Roman Archaeology 14 (1998): 546-553.

Dixon, Suzanne. Reading Roman Women: Sources, Genres, and Real Life. London: Gerald Duckworth and Co., Ltd., 2001.

Ferrari, Gloria. Figures of Speech: Men and Maidens in Ancient Greece. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Hallett, Judith P. Fathers and Daughters in Roman Society. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.

Havelock, C. M. “Mourners on Greek Vases: Remarks on the Social History of Women.” In Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany, Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard, eds. New York: Harper and Row, 1982.

Kampen, Natalie Boymel, ed. Sexuality in Ancient Art. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Kleiner, Diana E. E. and Susan B, Matheson, eds. Claudia I: Women in Ancient Rome. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996.

Kleiner, Diana E. E. and Susan B, Matheson, eds. Claudia II: Women in Roman Art and Society. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996.

Luomala, Nancy. “Matrilineal Reinterpretation of Some Egyptian Sacred Cows.” In Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany, Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard, eds. New York: Harper and Row, 1982.

McNally, Sheila. “The Maenad in Early Greek Art.” Arethusa 2 (1978): 101-35.

Ovid. The Loves, the Art of Beauty, the Remedies for Love, and the Art of Love. Translated by Rolfe Humphries. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1957.

Pomeroy, Sarah B. Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity. New York: Schocken Books, 1975.

Reed, Ellen D. Pandora: Women in Classical Greece. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.

Scully, Vincent. “The Great Goddess and the Palace Architecture of Crete.” In Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany, Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard, eds. New York: Harper and Row, 1982.

Medieval

Bell, Susan Groag. “Medieval Women Book Owners: Arbiters of Lay Piety and Ambassadors of Culture.” Signs 7 (1982): 742-68.

Brundage, James A. “Sumptuary Laws and Prostitution in Late Medieval Italy.” Journal of Medieval History13 (1987): 343-55.

Bynum, Caroline Walker. Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Religious Women. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.

Hamburger, Jeffrey F. Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

______. The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Kraus, Henry. “Eve and Mary: Conflicting Images of Medieval Woman.” In Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany, Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard, eds. New York: Harper and Row, 1982.

Nixon, Virginia. Mary’s Mother: Saint Anne in Late Medieval Europe. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004.

Policelli, Eugene F. “Medieval Women: A Preacher’s Point of View.” International Journal of Women’s Studies 1 (1978): 285-96. M’fiche MICR. HQ 1101 .I5

Miner, Dorothy. Anastaise and Her Sisters. Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, 1974.

Sheingorn, Pamela. “‘The Wise Mother’: The Image of St. Anne Teaching the Virgin Mary.” Gesta 32 (1993): 69-80.

Wilkins, David. “Woman as Artist and Patron in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.” In The Roles and Images of Women in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Douglas Radcliff-Unstead, ed. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1975.

Northern Renaissance

ffolliott, Sheila. “Casting a Rival into the Shade: Catherine de’Medici and Diane de Poitiers.” Art Journal 48/2 (1989): 138-43.

______. “Catherine de’Medici as Artemisia: Figuring the Powerful Widow.” In Rewriting the Renaissance: The Discourses of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe, eds. Margaret W. Ferguson, Maureen Quilligan, and Nancy J. Vickers, pp. 227-41. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1986.

Pearson, Andrea. “Margaret of Austria’s Devotional Portrait Diptychs.” Woman’s Art Journal (fall 2001/winter 2002):

______. “Nuns, Images, and the Ideals of Women’s Monasticism: Two Paintings from the Cistercian Convent of Flines.” Renaissance Quarterly 54/4.2 (2001): 1356-1402.

Plogsterth, Ann Rose. “The Institution of the Royal Mistress and the Iconography of Nude Portraiture in Sixteenth-Century France.” Diss., Columbia University Press, 1991.

Wolfthal, Diane. Images of Rape: The “Heroic” Tradition and its Alternatives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Italian Renaissance

Baernstein, Renee. “In Widow’s Habit: Women Between Convent and Family in Sixteenth-Century Milan.” Sixteenth Century Journal 25 (1994): 787-807.

Brown, C. Malcolm. “ ‘Lo insaciabile desiderio nostro de cose antique’: New Documents on Isabella d’Este’s Collection of Antiquities.” In Cultural Aspects of the Italian Renaissance, Essays in Honor of Paul Oskar Kristeller, edited by Cecil H. Clough, pp. 324-53. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1976.

Castiglione, Baldesar. The Book of the Courtier. Translated by George Bull. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976.

Dixon, Annette, editor. Women Who Ruled: Queens, Goddesses, Amazons in Renaissance and Baroque Art. London: Merrell/University of Michigan Museum of Art, 2002. ND 1460 .W65 W66 2002

Fonte, Moderata (Modesta Pozzo). The Wrath of Women. (written ca. 1592, first published 1600) Edited and translated by Virginia Cox. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Fletcher, J. M. “Isabella d’Este, Patron and Collector.” In Splendours of the Gonzaga, exh. cat., eds. David Chambers and Jane Martineau, pp. 50-63. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1981.

Frick, Carole Collier. Dressing Renaissance Florence: Families, Fortunes, and Fine Clothing. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. TT 496 .I82 F574 2002

Garrard, Mary D. “Here’s Looking at Me: Sofonisba Anguissiola and the Problem of the Woman Artist.” Renaissance Quarterly 47 (1994): 556-622.

Goffen, Rona, ed. Titian’s “Venus of Urbino”. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Jacobs, Frederika H. “The Construction of a Life: Madonna Properzia de’Rossi ‘schultrice’ Bolognese.” Word and Image 9 (1993): 122-32.

Kelly, Joan. “Did Women Have a Renaissance?” In Becoming Visible: Women in European History, eds. R. Bridenthal, C. Koonz, and S. Stuard. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1987.

Langdon, Gabrielle. Medici Women: Portraits of Power, Love, and Betrayal from the Court of Duke Cosimo I. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006.

Lincoln, Evelyn. “Making a Good Impression: Diana Mantuana’s Printmaking Career.” Renaissance Quarterly 50/4 (1997): 1101-47.

Martindale, Andrew. “The Patronage of Isabella d’Este at Mantua.” Apollo 79 (1964): 183-91.

McIver, Katherine. Women, Art, and Architecture in Northern Italy, 1520-1580. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006.

National Museum of Women in the Arts. Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque. Milan: Skira, 2007.

Nelson, Jonathan. Suor Plautilla Nelli (1523-1588): The First Woman Painter of Florence. Florence: Edizione Cadmo, 2000. N 6923 .N423 S86 2000X

Och, Marjorie. “Portrait Medals of Vittoria Colonna: Representing the Learned Woman.” In Women as Sites of Culture: Women’s Roles in Cultural Formation from the Renaissance to the 20th Century, ed. Susan Shifrin, pp. 153-66. Aldershot, Hampshire, England: Ashgate, 2002.

______. “Vittoria Colonna and the Commission for a ‘Mary Magdalen’ by Titian.” In Beyond Isabella: Secular Women Patrons in Renaissance Italy, eds. S. Reiss and D. Wilkins, pp. 193-223. Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2001.

Pagani, Valeria. “A Lunario for the Years 1584-1586 by Francesco Volterra and Diana Mantovana.” Print Quarterly 8 (1991): 140-45.

______. “Adamo Scultori and Diana Mantovana.” Print Quarterly 9 (1992): 72-87.

Reiss, Sheryl and David Wilkins, eds. Beyond Isabella: Secular Women Patrons in Renaissance Italy. Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2001.

Rogers, Mary, ed. Fashioning Identities in Renaissance Art, introduction by Joanna Woods-Marsden. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000.

San Juan, Rose Marie. “The Court Lady’s Dilemma: Isabella d’Este and Art Collecting in the Renaissance.” The Oxford Art Journal 14 (1991): 67-78.

Simons, Patricia. “Homosociality and Erotics in Italian Renaissance Portraiture.” Portraiture: Facing the Subject, ed. Joanna Woodall, pp. 29-51. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1997.

______. “Lesbian (In)visibility in Italian Renaissance Culture: Diana and Other Cases of donna con donna.” In Gay and Lesbian Studies in Art History, ed. W. Davis. New York: Harrington Park Press, 1994.

______. “Women in Frames: the Eye, the Gaze, the Profile in Renaissance Portraiture.” History Workshop: A Journal of Socialist and Feminist Historians 25 (1988): 4-30.

Tinagli, Paola. Women in Italian Renaissance Art: Gender, Representation, Identity. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997.

Verheyen, Egon. The Paintings in the Studiolo of Isabella d’Este at Mantua. New York: New York University Press, 1971.

Wood, Jeryldene. Women, Art, and Spirituality: The Poor Clares of Early Modern Italy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Baroque

Bissell, R. Ward. Artemisia Gentileschi and the Authority of Art: Critical Reading and Catalogue Raisonné. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999.

Brusati, Celeste. “Stilled Lives: Self-Portraiture and Self-Reflection in Seventeenth-Century Netherlandish Still Life Painting.” Simiolus 20 (1990-91): 168-82.

Davis, Natalie Zemon. Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995.

Maria Sybilla Merian, German botanical illustrator

Dixon, Annette, ed. Women Who Ruled: Queens, Goddesses, Amazons in Renaissance and Baroque Art. London: Merrell/University of Michigan Museum of Art, 2002. ND 1460 .W65 W66 2002

Garrard, Mary D. Artemisia Gentileschi around 1622: The Shaping and Reshaping of an Artistic Identity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. ND 623 .G364 G368 2001

______. Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989.

______. “Artemisia Gentileschi’s Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting.” Art Bulletin 62 (1980): 97-112.

Hofrichter, Frima Fox. “Judith Leyster’s ‘Self-Portrait’: ‘Ut Pictura Poseis.’” Essays in Northern European Art Presented to Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann on His Sixtieth Birthday. Davaco.

Maria Sibylla Merian (1674-1717), exh. cat. Copenhagen: Rosenborg Slot, 1983.

Russell, Margarita. “The Women Painters in Houbraken’s Groote Schouburgh.” Woman’s Art Journal 2/1 (1981): 7-11).

Schama, Simon. “Wives and Wantons: Versions of Womanhood in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art.” The Oxford Art Journal 3 (1980): 5-13.

Tomasi, Lucia, et al. The Flowering of Florence: Botanical Art for the Medici. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art/Lund Humphries, 2002. N 7680 .T66 2002

Woodall, Joanna. “Sovereign Bodies: The Reality of Status in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Portraiture.” In Portraiture: Facing the Subject, ed. Joanna Woodall, pp. 75-100. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1997.

Rococo and Neoclassicism

Auricchio, Laura. “Self-Promotion in Adélaïde Labille-Guiard’s 1785 Self-Portrait with Two Students.” Art Bulletin 89/1 (March 2007): 45-62.

Chew, Elizabeth. “The Countess of Arundel and Tart Hall.” In The Evolution of English Collecting: The Reception of Italian Art in the Tudor and Stuart Periods, ed. by Edward Chaney. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.

______. “Inhabiting the Great Man’s House: Women and Space at Monticello.” In Attending to Early Modern Women: Structures and Subjectivities, ed. By Joan Hartman and Adele Seeff. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2007.

Duncan, Carol. “Fallen Fathers: Images of Authority in Pre-Revolutionary French Art.” Art History 4 (1981): 186-203.

Friedman, Alice T. “Wife in the English Country House: Gender and the Meaning of Style in Early Modern England.” In Women and Art and in Early Modern Europe: Patrons, Collectors, and Connoisseurs, ed. by Cynthia Lawrence. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. N 5240 .W64 1997

Kahng, Eik, and Marianne Roland Michel, eds. Anne Vallayer-Coster: Painter to the Court of Marie-Antoinette. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.