The 1980s: A Virtual Discussion
2007Berger, Maurice
270 pages (color)
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1926 Cleveland, Ohio - 2009 Manhattan, New York. Known for: Female symbolism, modernist caligraphy, collage.
A non-traditional, revolutionary artist, Nancy Spero focuses her art work on challenging questions about women as artists and women as women. This subject seemed especially poignant in her paintings... Read full biography
A non-traditional, revolutionary artist, Nancy Spero focuses her art work on challenging questions about women as artists and women as women. This subject seemed especially poignant in her paintings in a December 2005 gallery exhibition, Cri du Coeur, in Chelsea, because it closely followed the... Read full biography
A non-traditional, revolutionary artist, Nancy Spero focuses her art work on challenging questions about women as artists and women as women. This subject seemed especially poignant in her paintings in a December 2005 gallery exhibition, Cri du Coeur, in Chelsea, because it closely followed the death of her long-time husband, Leon Golub. The exhibition showcased her "ability to combine hand-painted color with silk-screened images. The color starts out light and shifts to increasingly toxic... Read full biography
A non-traditional, revolutionary artist, Nancy Spero focuses her art work on challenging questions about women as artists and women as women. This subject seemed especially poignant in her paintings in a December 2005 gallery exhibition, Cri du Coeur, in Chelsea, because it closely followed the death of her long-time husband, Leon Golub. The exhibition showcased her "ability to combine hand-painted color with silk-screened images. The color starts out light and shifts to increasingly toxic tones of red, brown, blue and black, shadowing, overtaking and obliterating the figures while also evoking earth, blood, smoke and sorrow." (Smith). She trained at the Art Institute of Chicago and began in the 1960s as a figurative abstract artist with a... Read full biography
A non-traditional, revolutionary artist, Nancy Spero focuses her art work on challenging questions about women as artists and women as women. This subject seemed especially poignant in her paintings in a December 2005 gallery exhibition, Cri du Coeur, in Chelsea, because it closely followed the death of her long-time husband, Leon Golub. The exhibition showcased her "ability to combine hand-painted color with silk-screened images. The color starts out light and shifts to increasingly toxic tones of red, brown, blue and black, shadowing, overtaking and obliterating the figures while also evoking earth, blood, smoke and sorrow." (Smith). She trained at the Art Institute of Chicago and began in the 1960s as a figurative abstract artist with a political bent. She worked on paper rather than canvas as a symbol of rebelling against th... Read full biography
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)479 pagesDavenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesOtherworlds: The Art of Nancy Spero & Kiki Smith
2004Bird, Jon (ed)189 pages (color)Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004McGowan, Alison C (Editor)1,512 pagesWho Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesArt of the Postmodern Era From the Late 1960s to the Early 1990s
1996Sandler, Irving636 pages (color)Notes in Time
1995
(Exhibition catalog)Berger, Maurice48 pagesNorth American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary
1995Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller612 pagesArt Today
1995Lucie-Smith, Edward512 pages (color)Old Glory The American Flag in Contemporary Art
1994
(Exhibition catalog)Rubin, David S64 pages (color)Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993Bowker R R1,473 pagesAmerican Artists In Their New York Studios
1992Gotz, Stephan175 pages (color)Allegories of Modernism Contemporary Drawing
1992
(Exhibition catalog)Rose, Bernice128 pages (color)Modernism in Dispute Art Since the Forties
1992Wood, Paul (others)267 pages (color)Devil on the Stairs Looking Back on the Eighties
1991
(Exhibition catalog)Storr, Robert/J Tannenbaum96 pages (color)As Seen By Both Sides: American And Vietnamese Artists
1991Thomas, David C116 pages (color)Word As Image American Art 1960-1990
1990
(Exhibition catalog)Bowman, Russell/Dean Sobel172 pages (color)Women, Art, and Society
1990Chadwick, Whitney384 pages (color)American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions
1990Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer638 pagesContemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
1989Naylor, Colin (editor)1,059 pagesContemporary Women Artists
1988Beckett, Wendy128 pages (color)Stations (Centre international d'art contemporain de Montréal)
1988
(Exhibition catalog)Bellemare et al207 pages (color)The New Subjectivism Art in the 1980s
1988Kuspit, Donald578 pagesMaking Their Mark: Women Artists Move Into the Mainstream
1988Rosen, Randy, et al300 pages (color)Artwords 2 Discourse on the Early 80s
1988Siegel, Jeanne (editor)319 pagesCommited to Print
1988
(Exhibition catalog)Wye, Deborah120 pagesWho's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986Jaques Cattell Press1,292 pagesAmerican Painting and Sculpture A Concise History
1984Baigell, Mathew420 pagesThe Pluralist Era: American Art 1968-1981
1984Robins, Corrine246 pages (color)Art in the Seventies
1980Lucie-Smith, Edward128 pages (color)The Art Collection of the First National Bank of Chicago
1974Kuh, Katherine (Foreward); Gaylord Freeman (Intro)274 pages (color)The New Humanism Art in a Time of Change
1974Schwartz, Barry192 pages (color)