Modern Women Artists in the Nordic Countries 19001960 by Kerry Greaves PAPERBACK

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Modern Women Artists in the Nordic Countries, 19001960Author(s): Kerry Greaves\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367753801, 978-0367753801\nSynopsis\nThis transnational volume examines innovative women artists who were from, or worked in, Denmark, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Spmi, and Sweden from the emergence of modernism until the feminist movement took shape in the 1960s.\n\nThe book addresses the culturally specific conditions that shaped Nordic artists contributions, brings the latest methodological and feminist approaches to bear on Nordic art history, and engages a wide international audience through the contributors subject matter and analysis. Rather than introducing a new history of \""rediscovered\"" women artists, the book is more concerned with understanding the mechanisms and structures that affected women artists and their work, while suggesting alternative ways of constructing womens art hi.