The Mirror and the Palette - Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience: 500 Years of Women's Self-Portraits

Jennifer Higgie

Until the twentieth century, art history was, in the main, written by white men who tended to write about other white men. The idea that women in the West have always made art was rarely cited as a possibility. Yet they have - and, of course, continue to do so - often against tremendous odds, from laws ...