Dictionary of Women ArtistsCall Number: Creative Arts - Reference N8354 .D53 1997
Presents substantial entries on women artists working in a wide variety of media (excluding architecture, design, and fashion) from the Middles Ages to the present in Europe, America, and Australasia. Opens with introductory essays examining the training opportunities and changing work conditions for women artists since the medieval period. The actual dictionary includes 600 entries restricted to women artists of the Western tradition born before 1945. Entries also include a list of selected individual exhibitions, selected writings, and substantial bibliographies.