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Broad Strokes

15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (in That Order)

by Bridget Quinn ...

Historically, major women artists have been excluded from the mainstream art canon. Aligned with the resurgence of feminism in pop culture, Broad Strokes offers an entertaining corrective to that omission. Art historian Bridget Quinn delves into the lives and careers of 15 female artists from around the globe in text that's smart, feisty, educational, and an enjoyable read. Replete with beautiful ... Read more

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Historically, major women artists have been excluded from the mainstream art canon. Aligned with the resurgence of feminism in pop culture, Broad Strokes offers an entertaining corrective to that omission. Art historian Bridget Quinn delves into the lives and careers of 15 female artists from around the globe in text that's smart, feisty, educational, and an enjoyable read. Replete with beautiful
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Portrait of a Woman

Art, Rivalry, and Revolution in the Life of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

by Bridget Quinn ...

Discover the story of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard—a long-ignored artist and feminist of eighteenth-century France—in this imaginative and illuminating biography from an award-winning writer.Born in Paris in 1749, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard rose from shopkeeper’s daughter to an official portraitist of the royal court—only to have her achievements reduced to ash by the French Revolution. While she defied ... Read more

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Discover the story of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard—a long-ignored artist and feminist of eighteenth-century France—in this imaginative and illuminating biography from an award-winning writer.Born in Paris in 1749, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard rose from shopkeeper’s daughter to an official portraitist of the royal court—only to have her achievements reduced to ash by the French Revolution. While she defied
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She Votes

How U.S. Women Won Suffrage, and What Happened Next

by Bridget Quinn ...

She Votes is an intersectional story of the women who won suffrage, and those who have continued to raise their voices for equality ever since.From the first female Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation to the first woman to wear pants on the Senate floor, author Bridget Quinn shines a spotlight on the women who broke down barriers.This book also honors the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth ... Read more

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She Votes is an intersectional story of the women who won suffrage, and those who have continued to raise their voices for equality ever since.From the first female Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation to the first woman to wear pants on the Senate floor, author Bridget Quinn shines a spotlight on the women who broke down barriers.This book also honors the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth
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Rosie and Grandpa

by Bridget Quinn ...

Rosie and Grandpa are a dynamic grandpa-granddaughter duo who love to tackle new adventures together. However, their relationship faces a challenge when Grandpa begins to experience the initial stages of Alzheimer’s. Rosie, just seven years old, struggles to understand what is happening to her grandpa and best friend. The pair must face their fears and put all their trust in the love that they ... Read more

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Rosie and Grandpa are a dynamic grandpa-granddaughter duo who love to tackle new adventures together. However, their relationship faces a challenge when Grandpa begins to experience the initial stages of Alzheimer’s. Rosie, just seven years old, struggles to understand what is happening to her grandpa and best friend. The pair must face their fears and put all their trust in the love that they
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Broad Strokes

15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (in That Order)

by Bridget Quinn ...

Narrated by Tavia Gilbert ...

Unabridged

5 hours 29 min

Historically, major women artists have been excluded from the mainstream art canon. Aligned with the resurgence of feminism in pop culture, Broad Strokes offers an entertaining corrective to that omission. Art historian Bridget Quinn delves into the lives and careers of fifteen brilliant female artists in this smart, feisty, educational, and enjoyable book.Replete with beautiful reproductions of ... Read more

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Historically, major women artists have been excluded from the mainstream art canon. Aligned with the resurgence of feminism in pop culture, Broad Strokes offers an entertaining corrective to that omission. Art historian Bridget Quinn delves into the lives and careers of fifteen brilliant female artists in this smart, feisty, educational, and enjoyable book.Replete with beautiful reproductions of
... Read more

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Portrait of a Woman

Art, Rivalry, and Revolution in the Life of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

by Bridget Quinn ...

Narrated by Patricia Shade ...

Unabridged

6 hours 19 min

Summer in Paris, 1783. The Louvre steps, too hot and no breeze, the air electric with the heady anticipation of a coming storm: the year's Royal Salon. Men and women of every estate are united under art: to love it, to despise it, to gossip endlessly about it.Exhibiting at the Royal Salon was not for the faint of heart, and it was never intended for women.Enter Adélaïde Labille-Guiard . . .Born in ... Read more

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Summer in Paris, 1783. The Louvre steps, too hot and no breeze, the air electric with the heady anticipation of a coming storm: the year's Royal Salon. Men and women of every estate are united under art: to love it, to despise it, to gossip endlessly about it.Exhibiting at the Royal Salon was not for the faint of heart, and it was never intended for women.Enter Adélaïde Labille-Guiard . . .Born in
... Read more

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She Votes

How U.S. Women Won Suffrage, and What Happened Next

by Bridget Quinn ...

Narrated by Bridget Quinn, Donna Allen ...

Unabridged

5 hours 1 min

She Votes is an intersectional story of the women who won suffrage, and those who have continued to raise their voices for equality ever since.From the first female Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation to the first woman to wear pants on the Senate floor, author Bridget Quinn shines a spotlight on the women who broke down barriers.This deluxe book also honors the 100th anniversary of the ... Read more

$26.00 USD

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She Votes is an intersectional story of the women who won suffrage, and those who have continued to raise their voices for equality ever since.From the first female Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation to the first woman to wear pants on the Senate floor, author Bridget Quinn shines a spotlight on the women who broke down barriers.This deluxe book also honors the 100th anniversary of the
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There's a (Slight) Chance I Might Be Going to Hell

A Novel of Sewer Pipes, Pageant Queens, and Big Trouble

by Laurie Notaro ...

Narrated by Susan Denaker ...

Unabridged

10 hours 13 min

The first novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Idiot Girls’ Action-Adventure Club is a rollicking tale of small-town peculiarity, dark secrets, and one extraordinary beauty pageant.When her husband is offered a post at a small northwestern university, Maye Roberts is only too happy to pack up and leave the relentless Phoenix heat for the lush green quietude of Spaulding, ... Read more

$22.99 USD

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The first novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Idiot Girls’ Action-Adventure Club is a rollicking tale of small-town peculiarity, dark secrets, and one extraordinary beauty pageant.When her husband is offered a post at a small northwestern university, Maye Roberts is only too happy to pack up and leave the relentless Phoenix heat for the lush green quietude of Spaulding,
... Read more

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Unnatural Wonders

Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life

by Arthur C. Danto ...

Arthur C. Danto's essays not only critique bodies of work but reflect upon art's conceptual evolution as well, drawing for the reader a kind of "philosophical map" indicating how art and the criteria for judging it has changed over the twentieth century. In Unnatural Wonders the renowned critic finds himself at a point when contemporary art has become wholly pluralistic, even chaotic-with one ... Read more

$31.99 USD

Arthur C. Danto's essays not only critique bodies of work but reflect upon art's conceptual evolution as well, drawing for the reader a kind of "philosophical map" indicating how art and the criteria for judging it has changed over the twentieth century. In Unnatural Wonders the renowned critic finds himself at a point when contemporary art has become wholly pluralistic, even chaotic-with one
... Read more
Vision and Difference

Feminism, Femininity and Histories of Art

by Griselda Pollock ...

Series series Routledge Classics
Griselda Pollock provides concrete historical analyses of key moments in the formation of modern culture to reveal the sexual politics at the heart of modernist art. Crucially, she not only explores a feminist re-reading of the works of canonical male Impressionist and Pre-Raphaelite artists including Edgar Degas and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, but als ... Read more

$28.99 USD

Griselda Pollock provides concrete historical analyses of key moments in the formation of modern culture to reveal the sexual politics at the heart of modernist art. Crucially, she not only explores a feminist re-reading of the works of canonical male Impressionist and Pre-Raphaelite artists including Edgar Degas and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, but als
... Read more
Everything is Happening

Journey into a Painting

by Michael Jacobs ...

A fascinating journey through a single painting's history, meanings and associations by "one of the great non-fiction writers of this and the last century" (Simon Schama, Financial Times).Acclaimed travel author and art historian Michael Jacobs was haunted by Velázquez's enigmatic masterpiece Las Meninas from first encountering it in the Prado as a teenager. In Everything is Happening Jacobs ... Read more

$12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

A fascinating journey through a single painting's history, meanings and associations by "one of the great non-fiction writers of this and the last century" (Simon Schama, Financial Times).Acclaimed travel author and art historian Michael Jacobs was haunted by Velázquez's enigmatic masterpiece Las Meninas from first encountering it in the Prado as a teenager. In Everything is Happening Jacobs
... Read more
On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art

by James Elkins ...

Can contemporary art say anything about spirituality? John Updike calls modern art "a religion assembled from the fragments of our daily life," but does that mean that contemporary art is spiritual? What might it mean to say that the art you make expresses your spiritual belief?On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art explores the curious disconnection between spirituality and current ... Read more

$55.99 USD

Can contemporary art say anything about spirituality? John Updike calls modern art "a religion assembled from the fragments of our daily life," but does that mean that contemporary art is spiritual? What might it mean to say that the art you make expresses your spiritual belief?On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art explores the curious disconnection between spirituality and current
... Read more

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