The Mirror And The Palette - Rebellion, Revolution And Resilience: 500 Year Of Women's Self-portrait

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'A bewitching, invigorating history of women artists, the work they've made and the impossibly hard conditions in which it was produced' OLIVIA LAING 'Brilliant . . . reveals an until-now hidden history of women's self-portraiture. A gift that keeps on giving' ALI SMITH, New Statesman 'An uplifting and dazzling tour through history . . . a breakout book that shifts the spotlight onto the names that the art world has painted over. It's illuminating and essential reading' Stylist 'A revelatory study' Sunday Telegraph Until the twentieth century, art history was, in the main, written by white men who tended to write about other white men. The idea that women in the West have always made art was rarely cited as a possibility. Yet they have - and, of course, continue to do so - often against tremendous odds, from laws and religion to the pressures of family and public disapproval. In THE MIRROR AND THE PALETTE, Jennifer Higgie introduces us to a cross-section of women artists who embod

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