Women artists

Women have long been perceived by artists as objects of representation and muses. Today, women artists are no longer forced to work anonymously or take on male pseudonyms, but they are still particularly absent from museums and the question posed by the Guerrilla Girls in 1989 in the streets of New York, keeps all its strength: "Do women have to be naked to enter the Metropolitan Museum? In this book, Flavia Frigeri highlights the remarkable work of women artists and explores the lives of fifty of them, from the 16th century to the present, including Artemisia Gentileschi, Georgia O'Keeffe, Frida Kahlo and Louise Bourgeois. This essential guide also includes a fascinating chronology of the achievements of women since 1558, as well as suggested readings. to go further, as well as an index of women artists from around the world.