Germaine Greer "The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work" 2001
Galeriile Karo ShopGermaine Greer "The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work" 2001.
373 pages (23x15x5 cm)
Soft cover, numerous black-and-white illustrations and a few in colour.
If men and women are equally capable of genius, why have there been no women artists of the stature of Leonardo, Titian or Poussin? In attempting to answer this question, Germaine Greer introduces us to major but underrated figures in the history of Western painting - Angelica Kauffmann, Natalia Goncharova, Suzanne Valadon, Berthe Morisot, Kathe Kollwitz - and produces a brilliant, incisive and richly illustrated study. She explains the obstacles in the race for recognition as external ones that can be overcome and internal ones that in most cases are insurmountable.





