“Attempts to juggle domestic responsibilities with artistic production have often resulted in smaller bodies of work, and often works smaller in scale, than those produced by male contemporaries. Yet art history continues to privilege prodigious output and monumental scale or conception over the selective and the intimate.” ArtBodyResponsibilityMalesPrivilegeProductionsScalesArtisticIntimateConceptionSelectiveOutputArt HistoryProdigious Book:Women, Art, and Society Source: Women, Art, and Society
“Economically, legally, and politically powerless throughout much of western history, women have been linked to nature and the unknowable through metaphors of the body while the masculine has signified culture and mental activity.” Has BeensArtBodyCultureActivityWesternMetaphorSexismLinkedPowerlessMasculine Author:Whitney Chadwick