TY - BOOK AU - Cortney Cronberg Barko PY - 2015 CY - New York, United States of America PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 9781453914526 TI - Writers and Artists in Dialogue T2 - Historical Fiction about Women Painters DO - 10.3726/978-1-4539-1452-6 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1051575 N2 - This unique work of scholarship explores contemporary issues of male spectatorship and the importance of biography for art criticism in the work of Tracy Chevalier, Eunice Lipton, Anna Banti, Kate Braverman, and Susan Vreeland. Drawing upon feminist concepts on the male and female gaze, Dr. Cortney Cronberg Barko perceptively examines how these authors challenge androcentric models of reading by demonstrating women’s powers as readers and writers. This intriguing study reveals that authors working within the genre of fictionalized biographies of women painters reconstruct art history to create a new canon for women artists and invent a rhetoric about art that empowers women. This book is ideal for art history courses and a wide range of literature courses, including fiction, literary theory, literary criticism, feminist literary theory, and women's literature. KW - Anna Bani, Braverman, Vreeland, Biographies LA - English ER -