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The first chronicle of female self-portraiture through the centuries, now available in paperback. For centuries, women’s self-portraiture was a highly overlooked genre. Beginning with the self-portraits of nuns in medieval illuminated manuscripts, Seeing Ourselves finally gives this richly diverse r... Read More about Seeing Ourselves: Women's Self-Portraits

Thirty years after Derek Jarman’s death, we are finally allowed inside the house that encapsulates the filmmaker’s vision of the world. The world-famous garden made by Derek Jarman at his home, Prospect Cottage in Dungeness, is much visited and widely featured, but the house has long remained closed... Read More about Prospect Cottage: Derek Jarman's House

A new edition of one of the first books to focus on the world of women artists and their practice. Women have always practiced as artists, but for centuries the art world considered them mere dilettantes. Their work was derided as second-rate, and they were considered intruders in a male profession.... Read More about A World of Our Own: Women Artists Against the Odds

Accompanying a yearlong display of the London-based ISelf Collection, this publication examines individual identity, the body and the human condition from the perspectives of 20 artists. Taking the display of the Collection at the Whitechapel Gallery as its springboard, this book looks generally at ... Read More about Creating Ourselves: The Self in Art

The first chronicle of the whole story of female self portraiture through the centuries—a key work in the study of women’s art For centuries, women’s self-portraiture was a highly overlooked genre. Beginning with the self-portraits of nuns in medieval illuminated manuscripts, Seeing Ourselves finall... Read More about Seeing Ourselves: Women's Self-Portraits

Nudes that deliberately behave provocatively and pose awkward questions: how artists portray the body in contemporary art The representation of the nude in art remained for many centuries a victory of fiction over fact. Beautiful, handsome, flawless, its great success was to distance the unclothed b... Read More about The Naked Nude