Full Description
This book is a guide to identifying female creators and artistic movements from all parts of Asia, offering a broad spectrum of media and presentation representing a wide variety of milieus, regions, peoples and genres. Arranged chronologically by artist birth date, entries date as far back as Leizu's Chinese sericulture in 2700 BCE and continue all the way to the March 2021 mural exhibition by Malaysian painter Caryn Koh. Entries feature biographical information, cultural context and a survey of notable works. Covering creators known for prophecy, dance, epic and oratory, the compendium includes obscure artists and more familiar names, like biblical war poet Deborah, Judaean dancer Salome, Byzantine Empress Theodora and Myanmar freedom fighter Aung San Suu Kyi. In an effort to relieve unfamiliarity with parts of the world poorly represented in art history, this book focuses on Asian women often passed over in global art surveys.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
1. Ancient Era
2. Late Classical Era
3. Late Byzantine-Islamic Era
4. Middle Ages
5. Renaissance
6. 1650s-1880s
7. 1890s-1920s
8. 1930s
9. 1940-1944
10. 1945-1950s
11. 1960s
12. 1970s-1980s
13. 1990s-2000s
Chronology of Asian Women's Art
Appendix A. Artists by Genres
Appendix B. Artists by Place
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
