Artists Magazine - USA (2020-01 & 2020-02)

92 Artists Magazine January/February 2020

NOTABLE

WOMEN

Women in Art: 50

Fearless Creatives

Who Inspired the

World (Ten Speed

Press) is the perfect

book for young, aspiring

female artists—and

for anyone else who

enjoys an engaging

and delightfully

illustrated read. Writer

and illustrator Rachel

Ignotofsky offers 50

brief biographies of

trail-blazing women,

dating from the 13th

century to current

times, whose collective

contributions cover

painting, sculpting,

photography, film,

design, architecture

and more.

For a deeper

examination of the

subject, focusing on the

challenges and concerns

of British female artists

during a period of

seminal social and

political change, pick

up a copy of Voyaging

Out: British Women

Artists From Suffrage

to the Sixties (Thames

& Hudson), by artist and

author Carolyn Trant.

Included are images

of approximately 125

works by 20th-century

heroines of the art world.

Independent

Study

Resources to

inspire + build skills

BY HOLLY DAVIS

REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION FROM

WOMEN IN ART,

BY RACHEL IGNOTOFSKY, COPYRIGHT

© 2019. PUBLISHED BY TEN SPEED PRESS, A DIVISION OF PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE, LLC.

Cover art: Imam Mosque (1611–66; Isafan, Iran)

ALIAKSANDR MAZURKEVICH/ALAMY

Overhead Opulance

Michelangelo, Marc Chagall, Cy

Twombly—and a host of other

artists across the centuries and

the globe created spectacular

ceiling art. You can marvel over

multiple views of 40 dazzling

examples in The Art of Looking

Up (White Lion Publishing).

Author and art historian

Catherine McCormack provides

insight into the design and

execution of these awe-inspiring

works, as well as the cultural,

religious and political infl uences

on their creation.

Palais Garnier (Paris opera)

1964; by Marc Chagall

JOHN KELLERMAN/ALAMY