The daring women artists of last century were often sidelined as muses. A new book celebrates their brilliance
- Written by Joanna Mendelssohn, Honorary Senior Fellow, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
When I first studied art history in the late 1960s, all artists were men. It seemed, back then, that the act of rendering an image in line and colour, or visualising pure emotion, was confined to the gender that controlled society at the time.
Paula Modersohn Becker’s portrait of Rilke.Wikimedia CommonsThe one woman artist I remember from my...





