Part 1 The obstacles: family; love; the illusion of success; humiliation; dimension; primitivism; the disappearing oeuvre. Part 2 How they ran: the cloister; the Renaissance; the magnificent exception; the Bolognese phenomenon; still life and flower painting; the portraitists; the amateurs; the age of academies.
Germaine Greer, critic, leader, and advocate, is the author of The Female Eunuch, The Change, and most recently The Whole Woman, all worldwide bestsellers. She lives in England.
It is everything we might have wished: passionate yet lucid, clear yet complex, deeply researched yet not pedantic. It is a book that explains, better than any I have ever read, the psychological, economic and even aesthetic reasons for the virtually unchallenged patriarchalism of all our artistic establishments. Erica Jong
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