This book is a guide to identifying female creators and artistic movements from all parts of Asia, offering a broad spectrum of media and presentation representing a wide variety of milieus, regions, peoples and genres. Arranged chronologically by artist birth date, entries date as far back as Leizu’s Chinese sericulture in 2700 B.C.E. and continue all the way to the March 2021 mural exhibition by Malaysian painter Caryn Koh. Entries for each artist feature biographical information, cultural context and a survey of notable works. Covering creators known for prophecy, dance, epic and oratory, the compendium includes obscure artists and more familiar names, like biblical war poet Deborah, Judaean dancer Salome, Byzantine Empress Theodora and Myanmar freedom fighter Aung San Suu Kyi. In an effort to relieve unfamiliarity with parts of the world poorly represented in art history, it focuses on Asian women often passed over in global art surveys.
Asian Women Artists : A Biographical Dictionary, 2700 BCE to Today
Description
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
1. Ancient Era
2. Late Classical Era
3. Late Byzantine-Islamic Era
4. Middle Ages
5. Renaissance
6. 1650s–1880s
7. 1890s–1920s
8. 1930s
9. 1940–1944
10. 1945–1950s
11. 1960s
12. 1970s–1980s
13. 1990s–2000s
Chronology of Asian Women's Art
Appendix A. Artists by Genres
Appendix B. Artists by Place
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Author Description
Mary Ellen Snodgrass is an award-winning author of English and Latin textbooks and reference works for 35 years. She taught at Hickory High School and Lenoir Rhyne University in North Carolina for 23 years. Her writing focuses on women's and world literature and history and general research topics, including epidemics, the history of money, clothing, food, and dance. She lives in Hickory, North Carolina.