TY  - GEN
T1  - Asian women artists : a biographical dictionary, 2700 BCE to today
A1  - Snodgrass, Mary Ellen
LA  - English
PP  - Jefferson, North Carolina
PB  - McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
YR  - 2022
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1353301098
AB  - "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"--
CN  - NX164.W65 S63 2022eb
SN  - 9781476646985
SN  - 1476646988
SN  - 9781476689258
SN  - 1476689253
KW  - Women artists : Asia : Biography : Dictionaries.
KW  - Women and the arts : Asia : Dictionaries.
KW  - Femmes artistes : Asie : Biographies : Dictionnaires anglais.
KW  - ART / Reference.
KW  - Women and the arts
KW  - Women artists
KW  - Asia
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Dictionaries
ER  -