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Author:   Helen Gørrill (Royal Academy of Arts, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Weight:   0.567kg
ISBN:  

9781788310802

ISBN 10:   1788310802
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   06 February 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

List of figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Women Can’t Paint 1: Masculinities and Femininities in Painting: The New Androgynous Aesthetics in Contemporary Art 2: The Price of Being a Woman Artist: Dollars, Dirhams, Pounds and Euros 3: The Museum Exposed: Gendered Visibilities and Essentialist Aesthetics through Equality 4: Gender Parity and Arts Prizes: ‘Only Men Are Capable of Aesthetic Greatness’ 5: The Importance of Wearing the Right Old (Art) School Tie: Networking, Gender and Painting Values 6: Sexism and Ageism in Visual Art Values - ‘But Men are Allowed to be Old or Ugly!’ 7: Smashing the Glass Ceiling of Women’s Art: Manifestos for Equality That Could Actually Work Conclusion: Baselitz’s Folly: Women Can Paint Glossary Appendices Notes References Index

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The content of Women Can't Paint will shake the foundations of an institution where the glass ceiling is not only firmly in place, but as Gorrill presents, is descending. - Technical Communication

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Helen Gørrill is an artist, futurist, writer, editor, and educator lecturing in visual culture. She holds a PhD in contemporary painting, gender and inequality, and her artwork is digitally archived by the Brooklyn Museum’s EASCFA collection. As an academic she applies disruptive techniques to challenge stagnancy in gender equality, feminist methodologies and the visual arts.

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