Great Housewives of Art Revisited - Softcover

Swain, Sally

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0586213945 ISBN 13: 9780586213940

Publisher: Grafton Books, 1991

Synopsis

The sequel to "Great Housewives of Art", this is a collection of 25 pastiches featuring the unsung women behind the great artists, and art movements, of history. Characters featured include Mrs Rembrandt defrosting the fridge. \n\nSynopsis \n\nThe sequel to "Great Housewives of Art", this is a collection of 25 pastiches featuring the unsung women behind the great artists, and art movements, of history. Characters featured include Mrs Rembrandt defrosting the fridge.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

"Why don't art galleries display more images of modern woman's daily domestic grind?" Forty-two color pictures elaborate on the above question and similar ones raised in this witty visual spoof of "great" art, i.e., art made by men according to male esthetics. Thus, a composition whose neat geometry recalls Mondrian demands a second look: the apparently abstract configuration depicts a robotic woman ("Mrs. Mondrian") wielding a mop. Another woman (with blood trickling from an amputated ear) makes the bed of Van Gogh's famously awry room. And in this Dejeuner sur l'herbe , the female picnickers wear business suits while a man reclines in abashed nudity. The jokes are pungent and readily accessible--no arcane allusions here. Several gags misfire: "Mrs. Pollock Can't Seem to Find Anything Any More" (the image of a woman tearing her hair is embedded in blithely swirling strokes of color) obscures the historical "Mrs. Pollock," the noted painter Lee Krasner. Swain, an Australian, is a self-taught artist and illustrator.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Grafton Books
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0586213945
• ISBN 13: 9780586213940
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 64