Karla Huebner’s Feminist Art History Bibliography:
General Books and Articles
in English, French, German, and Italian

HESE BOOKS and articles cover a broad range of periods, countries, and media. The list consists only of items I’ve personally consulted, so it is quite idiosyncratic and in some ways limited. The titles that don’t specifically mention women artists do include material on them. The majority of these are excellent; each is useful in its own way depending on what you are researching.
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General Books and Articles in English

Bachmann, Donna G., and Sherry Piland. Women Artists: An Historical, Contemporary and Feminist Bibliography. Scarecrow Press, Methuen, 1978.

Bohm-Duchen, Monica. The Nude. Scala Books & Réunion des Musées Nationaux, London & Paris, 1992.

Bontemps, Arna. Forever Free: Art by African-American Women, 1862–1980. Illinois State University, Normal, 1980.

Broude, Norma, and Mary Garrard, eds. Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany. Harper & Row, New York, 1982.

Chadwick, Whitney. Women, Art, and Society. Thames & Hudson, Inc., New York, 1990.

Chadwick, Whitney, and Isabelle de Courtivron, eds. Significant Others: Creativity and Intimate Partnership. Thames & Hudson, Inc., New York, 1993.

Comini, Allesandra. “Art History, Revisionism, and Some Holy Cows.” Arts Magazine 54, no. 10 (June 1980), 96–100.

Dunford, Penny. A Biographical Dictionary of Women Artists in Europe and America since 1850. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1989.

Ecker, Gisela, ed. Feminist Aesthetics. Translated by Harriet Anderson. The Women’s Press Limited, London, 1985.

Ellet, Elizabeth Fries. Women Artists in All Ages and Countries. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1859.

Fine, Elsa Honig. Women and Art: A History of Women Painters and Sculptors from the Renaissance to the 20th Century. Allanheld & Schram/Prior, Montclair, NJ & London, 1978.

Gerdts, William H. Three Centuries of the American Nude. New York Cultural Center, New York, 1975. (Denby, Dodson, Edelheit, Erlebacher, Frank, Marisol, Neel, Sleigh)

Greer, Germaine. The Obstacle Race. Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 1979.

Harris, Ann Sutherland, and Linda Nochlin. Women Artists: 1550–1950. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1977.

Hedges, Elaine, and Ingrid Wendt. In Her Own Image: Women Working in the Arts. The Feminist Press/McGraw-Hill, 1980.

Heller, Nancy. Women Artists: An Illustrated History. Rev. ed. Abbeville Press, New York, 1987.

Henkes, Robert. The Art of Black American Women. McFarland & Co., Inc., Jefferson NC and London, 1993.

Hess, Thomas B., and Elizabeth C. Baker, eds. Art and Sexual Politics: Women’s Liberation, Women Artists, and Art History. Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., New York, 1971.

Krasilovsky, Alexis Rafael. “Feminism in the Arts: An Interim Bibliography,” Artforum 10, no. 10 (June 1972), 72–25.

Kronhausen, Phyllis and Eberhard. The Complete Book of Erotic Art. Bell Publishing Company, New York, 1987.

Krull, Edith. Women in Art. Translated by T. Lux Feininger. Studio Vista, London, 1989.

La Duke, Betty. Africa Through the Eyes of Women Artists. Africa World Press, Inc., Trenton, NJ, 1991.

Lewis, Samella. Art: African-American. Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, Inc., New York, 1978.

Loeb, Judy, ed. Feminist Collage: Educating Women in the Visual Arts. Teachers College Press, New York, 1979.

Lucie-Smith, Edward. Sculpture since 1945. Universe Books, New York, 1987.

________. Sexuality in Western Art. Rev. ed. Thames & Hudson Inc., New York, 1991.

Lyle, Cindy, Sylvia Moore, and Cynthia Navaretta, eds. Women Artists of the World. Midmarch Associates, New York, 1984.

Munro, Eleanor. Originals: American Women Artists. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1979.

Munsterberg, Hugo. A History of Women Artists. Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., New York, 1975.

Nemser, Cindy. Art Talk: Conversations with Twelve Women Artists. Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1975.

Nochlin, Linda. Women, Art and Power and Other Essays. Harper & Row, New York, 1988.

________. “Women Artists in the 20th Century: Issues, Problems, Controversies,” Studio International 193, no. 987 (March 1977), 165–174.

Nottingham Castle Museum. The Women’s Art Show: 1550–1970. Nottingham Castle Museum, Nottingham, 1982.

Opfell, Olga S. Special Visions: Profiles of Fifteen Women Artists from the Renaissance to the Present Day. McFarland & Co., Inc., Jefferson, NC & London, 1991.

Parker, Rozsika, and Griselda Pollock. Old Mistresses: Women, Art and Ideology. Pantheon Books, New York. (reprint of Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1981)

Petersen, Karen, and J.J. Wilson. Women Artists: Recognition and Reappraisal From the Early Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century. Harper & Row, New York, 1976.

Petteys, Chris. Dictionary of Women Artists. G.K. Hall & Co., Boston, 1984.

Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery. The Male Nude in Photography. Vermont Crossroads Press, Waitsfield, VT, 1980.

Pollock, Griselda. Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism and the Histories of Art. Routledge, London & New York, 1988.

Raven, Arlene, Cassandra L. Langer, and Joanna Frueh. Feminist Art Criticism: An Anthology. UMI Research Press, Ann Arbor, 1988.

Roake, Joanne. Women Artists: A Selected Bibliography. Bibliographic Series No. 19, The Library, CSUS, Sacramento, 1977.

Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer. American Women Artists: From the Indian to the Present. Avon Books, New York, 1982.

________. American Women Sculptors. G.K. Hall & Co., Boston, 1990.

Seigel, Judy, ed. Mutiny and the Mainstream: Talk that Changed Art, 1975–1990. Midmarch Arts Press, New York, 1992.

Slatkin, Wendy. The Voices of Women Artists. Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1993.

________. Women Artists in History. Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1985.

Sproule, Anna. Women and the Arts. Wayland, Hove, 1989.

Tufts, Eleanor. American Women Artists: A Bibliography. Garland Publishing Inc., New York & London, 1984.

________. Our Hidden Heritage: Five Centuries of Women Artists. 1973.

University of Maryland Art Gallery & Women’s Caucus for Art. Women Artists in Washington Collections. University of Maryland Art Gallery & Women’s Caucus for Art, College Park, MD, 1979.

Waller, Susan. Women Artists in the Modern Era: A Documentary History. The Scarecrow Press, Inc., Metuchen, NJ, 1991.

Walters, Margaret. The Nude Male: A New Perspective. Penguin Books Ltd., Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England, 1979.

Wollongong City Gallery. Heartland. Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong, NSW, 1985.

Women’s Art Registry of Minnesota. Warm: A Landmark Exhibition. Women’s Art Registry of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1984.

Woolf, Felicity, and Michael Cassin. Bodylines: The Human Figure in Art. The National Gallery, London, 1987.

General Books and Articles in French

Eaubonne, Françoise d’. Histoire de l’art et lutte des sexes. Editions de la Différence, Paris, 1977.

Eliet, Françoise. “Lutte des femmes dans l’histoire de l’art,” Art Press International 5 (March 1977), 24–5.

Francblin, Catherine. “Corps-objet, femme-objet,” Art Press 20 (September–October 1975), 14–15.

General Books and Articles in German

Berger, Renate. Malerinnen auf dem Weg ins 20.Jahrhundert. DuMont Buchverlag, Köln, 1982.

Evers, Ulrika. Deutsche Künstlerinnen des 20.Jahrhunderts: Malerei, Bildhauerei, Tapisserie. Ludwig Schultheis Verlag, Hamburg, 1983.

Guhl, Ernst. Die Frauen in der Kunstgeschichte. F. Guttentag, Berlin, 1858.

Hildebrandt, Hans. Die Frau als Künstlerin. Rudolf Mosse Buchverlag, Berlin, 1928.

Krichbaum, Jörg, and Rein A. Zondergeld. Künstlerinnen: Von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne, 1979.

Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst e.V., Berlin. Das Verborgene Museum I: Dokumentation der Kunst von Frauen in Berliner öffentlichen Sammlungen. Edition Hentrich, Berlin, 1987.

General Books and Articles in Italian

Vergine, Lea. L’altra metà dell’avanguardia 1910–1940. Comune di Milano, Milan, 1980.

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