American Women Artists, 1935-1970

Numerous American women artists built careers in the mid-twentieth century while confronting challenging cultural transitions: shifts in stylistic avant-gardism, harsh political transformations, and changing gender expectations. These social and political upheavals provoked intellectual and aesthetic tensions, and meant that while a few women working during these decades have gained significant recognition, others are still consigned to obscurity. Through its nuanced approach to issues of gender and female agency, this volume revises this historical silence by offering new scholarship in twentieth-century American art history and feminist studies.