Gender and art / edited by Gill Perry. - New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 1999. - 267 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm. - Art and its histories ; bk. 3. . - Art and its histories ; bk. 3. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259) and index.

Portrait of the artist as a woman / What women can make / Women artists, masculine art and the Royal Academy of Art / Women artists and the French Academy : Vigée-Lebrun in the 1780s / Masculinity and English architectural classicism / Class and sexualtiy in Victorian art / Gender and design in the Victorian period / Parisian avant-garde and feminine art in the early twentieth century / Psychoanalysis, gender and art / Work of art, the work of psychoanalysis / Gender and fetishism : an overview / Catherine King -- Catherine King -- Gill Perry -- Emma Barker -- Christy Anderson -- Lynda Nead -- Colin Cunningham -- Gill Perry -- Claire Pajaczkowska -- Briony Fer -- Gill Perry.

Encompassing European art, architecture and design from the 16th century to the present day, Gender and Art uses case studies to examine the role of gender difference in the production, consumption and interpretation of works of art.

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Masculinity in art.
Femininity in art.
Gender identity in art.
Artists--Psychology.

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