Writers and Artists in Dialogue: Historical Fiction about Women Painters

This unique work of scholarship explores contemporary issues of male spectatorship and the importance of biography for art criticism in the work of Tracy Chevalier, Eunice Lipton, Anna Banti, Kate Braverman, and Susan Vreeland.Drawing upon feminist concepts on the male and female gaze, Dr. Cortney Cronberg Barko perceptively examines how these authors challenge androcentric models of reading by demonstrating women�s powers as readers and writers. This intriguing study reveals that authors working within the genre of fictionalized biographies of women painters reconstruct art history to create a new canon for women artists and invent a rhetoric about art that empowers women. This book is ideal for art history courses and a wide range of literature courses, including fiction, literary theory, literary criticism, feminist literary theory, and women’s literature. Additional ISBNs 1433127113, 1453914528, 9781433127113, 9781453914526Writers and Artists in Dialogue: Historical Fiction about Women Painters 1st Edition is written by Cortney Cronberg Barko and published by Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers. ISBNs for Writers and Artists in Dialogue are 9781454194408, 1454194405 and the print ISBNs are 9781433127113, 1433127113. Additional ISBNs include 1433127113, 1453914528, 9781433127113, 9781453914526.