* Accompanies an exhibition at The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, from November 2012 to April 2013
The Linda Lee Alter Collection of Art by Women is a collection at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) of approximately 400 works of art including paintings, photographs, drawings, watercolors, pastels, collage, prints, fabric pieces, ceramics, bronze, wood, and sculpture in other media by over 150 artists. The collection includes works by artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Joan Brown, Viola Frey, Ana Mendieta, Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson, Christina Ramberg, Betye Saar, Kiki Smith, Nancy Spero, and Beatrice Wood among many others.
This accessibly written, fully illustrated publication includes ten new essays on women artists since the 1920s. The chief aim is to document and celebrate this unprecedented gift in PAFA's history. The book breaks new ground in scholarship on its topics, takes risks with interpretation, and uses the broad themes and wide array of artists represented in the collection as a starting point for reflections on the history of the feminist movement, individual artists, and regional identities. Artists from the collection have a strong voice throughout the publication through interviews, writings, and the incorporation of archival materials. The Linda Lee Alter Collection catalogue will be the lasting document of the collection and will accompany the traveling version of the exhibition, which is projected to travel to four national venues in 2013 and 2014.

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Cozzolino, Robert, 1970-, editor

Glenn Adamson; Anna C. Chave; Robert Cozzolino

Adamson, Glenn, Chave, Anna C.

Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester

publisher not identified

Verlag nicht ermittelbar

Hudson Hills Press LLC

Marquand Books

Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar, 2012

United States, United States of America

1st, First Edition, PS, 2013

Philadelphia, 2012

Jan 16, 2013

"In response to the poor representation of women in art galleries and museums, Philadelphia-based collector Linda Lee Alter decided in the 1980s to focus on art by women. The result, now at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, is an extraordinarily diverse and powerful collection of nearly 500 objects by some of the most influential female artists of the past 50 years. Emphasizing contemporary living artists, but including major works by Louise Bourgeois, Elizabeth Catlett, Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson, and others, Alter formed her collection with the intent of giving it to a public institution in order to make women artists more visible. This gorgeously illustrated volume celebrates the collection and its legacy by bringing together leading scholars of feminism, and modern and contemporary art to discuss how the artists in Alter's collection saw and transformed the world. Among the essays are discussions of the impact of feminism in Chicago, Philadelphia and the San Francisco Bay area; self-portraiture by women in the 1970s and 1980s; the legacy of Elizabeth Catlett on younger African American artists; collaborative practice among women; an interview with Linda Lee Alter; and an appreciation by artist Diane Burko."--Publisher's description

Linda Lee Alter : at one with artists / Diane Burko -- "I want the artist to be visible" : a conversation with Linda Lee Alter / Robert Cozzolino -- Expanded horizon : female artists at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts during the course of the nineteenth century / Anna Havemann -- Evenings : entertaining women in the circles of American modernism / Janine Mileaf -- Imaging history, memory, and the raced and gendered body : the legacy of Elizabeth Catlett / Melanie Anne Herzog -- A state of independence in Chicago / Robert Cozzolino -- Feminism, identity, and self-representation : self-portraiture reimagined / Anna C. Chave -- Sisters doin' it for themselves : collaborative practice in the Linda Lee Alter collection / Joanna Gardner-Huggett -- Philadelphia focus and feminism in 1974 / Robert Cozzolino -- A different approach : Joan Brown, Viola Frey, and the feminist art movement / Jodi Throckmorton -- Marginalia / Glenn Adamson -- We came to America by Faith Ringgold and the Linda Lee Alter collection of art by women at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts / Michele Wallace -- Checklist of the Linda Lee Alter collection of art by women : biographies of the artists / Mey-Yen Moriuchi

335 pages : 29 cm
Issued in connection with an exhibition held November 17, 2012-April 7, 2013, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-330)

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