TY - BOOK AU - Chadwick, Whitney TI - WOMEN ART, AND SOCIETY SN - 9780500202937 U1 - 704.042 PY - 1996/// CY - London PB - Thames and Hudson KW - Art and society KW - Women artists--Social conditions KW - Women artists KW - Women artists--Biography KW - Women in art KW - Feminism and art N1 - The place of women in the history of Western art--as the producers of major paintings, sculptures, and craft items, and as the subjects of the work of others--remains controversial. In this extensively revised edition of her brilliant study, Chadwick re-frames and re-presents the issues relating to the conditions under which women have worked as artists from the Middle Ages to the present. 275 illustrations, 55 in color ER -