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Product Identifiers
PublisherSt. Martin's Press
ISBN-100312134304
ISBN-139780312134303
eBay Product ID (ePID)118891
Product Key Features
Book TitleAnonymous Was a Woman : A Celebration in Words and Images of Traditional American Art and the Women Who Made It
Number of Pages128 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicFolk & Outsider Art
Publication Year1995
IllustratorYes
GenreArt
AuthorMirra Bank
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight12.3 Oz
Item Length10 in
Item Width7.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Preface byRose, Phyllis
LCCN95-022233
Reviews"Exquisite. . .To study it even for the shortest time is to feel exhilarated." --Germaine Greer "Anonymous Was a Woman celebrates the raw creativity of America's lost artists: our foremothers." --Rita Mae Brown "As true a lovingly pieced-together patchwork quilt as the artifacts of the ordinary women it celebrates...very moving." --Merge Piercy "A splendid book, original, perceptive, and deeply moving." --Gerda Lerner, writer and historian "A wonderful addition to the literature." --Adam Gopnik, art critic for The New Yorker, "Exquisite. . .To study it even for the shortest time is to feel exhilarated." -- Germaine Greer " Anonymous Was a Woman celebrates the raw creativity of America's lost artists: our foremothers." -- Rita Mae Brown "As true a lovingly pieced-together patchwork quilt as the artifacts of the ordinary women it celebrates...very moving." -- Merge Piercy "A splendid book, original, perceptive, and deeply moving." -- Gerda Lerner, writer and historian "A wonderful addition to the literature." -- Adam Gopnik, art critic for The New Yorker
Dewey Edition20
Dewey Decimal746/.082
SynopsisIn print since it was first published in 1979, this book is a glorious collection of American folk art by "ordinary" women of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Filled with beautiful four-color reproductions of samplers, quilts, paintings, and needle-pictures along with excerpts from diaries and letters, sampler verse, books, and magazines of the period, Anonymous Was a Woman celebrates the daily experiences and inner lives of women who, in acts of love and duty, created many masterpieces of American folk art., Based on her acclaimed PBS film of the same name, Anonymous Was a Woman is a glorious collection of American folk art, created by ordinary women o f the 18th and 19th centuries, which celebrates the daily experiences and inner lives of women. 97 illustrations, 60 in color.
LC Classification NumberNK806.B37 1995
