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Over the past years, studies have begun not only to identify the factors that impeded the full participation of women artists in French cultural life, such as w

Mining various archives and newspaper repositories, Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Nineteenth-Century Pioneer of Modern Art Criticism provides the first full-length

Addresses the fundamental humanity and necessity of the visual arts : what they are about, why artists are indispensible, and why art and artists matter.

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