* Accompanies an exhibition at The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, from November 2012 to April 2013 The Linda Lee Alter Collection of Art by Women is a collection at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) of approximately 400 works of art including paintings, photographs, drawings, watercolors, pastels, collage, prints, fabric pieces, ceramics, bronze, wood, and sculpture in other media by over 150 artists. The collection includes works by artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Joan Brown, Viola Frey, ...
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* Accompanies an exhibition at The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, from November 2012 to April 2013 The Linda Lee Alter Collection of Art by Women is a collection at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) of approximately 400 works of art including paintings, photographs, drawings, watercolors, pastels, collage, prints, fabric pieces, ceramics, bronze, wood, and sculpture in other media by over 150 artists. The collection includes works by artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Joan Brown, Viola Frey, Ana Mendieta, Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson, Christina Ramberg, Betye Saar, Kiki Smith, Nancy Spero, and Beatrice Wood among many others. This accessibly written, fully illustrated publication includes ten new essays on women artists since the 1920s. The chief aim is to document and celebrate this unprecedented gift in PAFA's history. The book breaks new ground in scholarship on its topics, takes risks with interpretation, and uses the broad themes and wide array of artists represented in the collection as a starting point for reflections on the history of the feminist movement, individual artists, and regional identities. Artists from the collection have a strong voice throughout the publication through interviews, writings, and the incorporation of archival materials. The Linda Lee Alter Collection catalogue will be the lasting document of the collection and will accompany the traveling version of the exhibition, which is projected to travel to four national venues in 2013 and 2014.
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VG/VG dustjacket is in mylar. Exlibrary with small label at base of spine on mylar covering, ownership stamp at top text block, labels inside rear cover. Very clean copy overall. Grey cloth with white lettering; color-illustrated dj with white lettering; 335 pp. with color and bw images throughout. In response to the poor representation of women in art galleries and museums, Philadelphia-based collector, Linda Lee Alter, decided in the 1980s to focus on art by women. The result, now at the Pehhsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, is an extraordinarily diverse and powerful collection of nearly 500 objects by some of the most influential female artists of the past 50 years, including major works by Louise Bourgeois, Elizabeth Catlett, Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson and others. Alter formed her collecitno with the intent of giving it to a public institution in order to make women artists more visible. Contributors include Glenn Adamson, Linde Lee Alter, Diane Burko, Anna Chave, Joanna Gardner-Hugget, Anna Havemann, Melanie Anne Herzog, Janine Mileaf, Mey-Yen Moriuchi, Jodi Throckmorton and Michele Wallace. Includes 12 essays, the plates, checklist of Alter's collection with biographies of each artis and, a selected bibliography.
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VG/VG-light wear and scuffing to dust jacket. Grey cloth with white lettering; color-illustrated dj with white lettering; 335 pp. with color and bw images throughout. In response to the poor representation of women in art galleries and museums, Philadelphia-based collector, Linda Lee Alter, decided in the 1980s to focus on art by women. The result, now at the Pehhsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, is an extraordinarily diverse and powerful collection of nearly 500 objects by some of the most influential female artists of the past 50 years, including major works by Louise Bourgeois, Elizabeth Catlett, Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson and others. Alter formed her collecitno with the intent of giving it to a public institution in order to make women artists more visible. Contributors include Glenn Adamson, Linde Lee Alter, Diane Burko, Anna Chave, Joanna Gardner-Hugget, Anna Havemann, Melanie Anne Herzog, Janine Mileaf, Mey-Yen Moriuchi, Jodi Throckmorton and Michele Wallace. Includes 12 essays, the plates, checklist of Alter's collection with biographies of each artis and, a selected bibliography.