Dictionary of Women Artists

Dictionary of Women Artists is a two-volume dictionary of 600 women artists born before 1945, going back to the Middle Ages. It was edited by Delia Gaze with 23 advisors and over 100 contributors. Gaze is a writer for the Oxford DNB and wrote several biographies that were released in the 2004 edition of the ODNB.[1]

Dictionary of Women Artists
Self-portrait by Käthe Kollwitz (cover illustration)
Authoreditor Delia Gaze
CountryUnited Kingdom, United States
LanguageEnglish
GenreArt history
PublisherFitzroy Dearborn Publishers
Publication date
1997
Pages1512 (2 volumes: "A-I", & "J-Z")
ISBN9781884964213
OCLC37693713
Followed byConcise Dictionary of Women Artists 

The book is widely cited as a reference for Western women artists and has a disclaimer that it is biased towards Western artists because of the constraints imposed on the selection. The book includes a list of artists in alphabetical order and chronological order and a bibliography of sources. Preceding the biographies is a series of "introductory surveys", a product of a somewhat dated notion in gender studies that women can be grouped into categories. There are many women artists mentioned in the surveys whose biography was not included, because there was not enough documented material to fulfill the inclusion criteria. The work was meant as a follow-up to a previous reference work including 21,000 women painters, sculptors, printmakers, and illustrators by Chris Petteys, the Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900, published in 1985.[2] The problem with that work is that the more well-documented women were included with countless "one-liners".

In 2001 Gaze produced a new "Concise" edition with a smaller selection in a single volume.

References
  1. Delia Gaze Archived 2017-02-02 at the Wayback Machine in the ODNB
  2. Reviewed Work: DICTIONARY OF WOMEN ARTISTS 2 vol. by Delia Gaze, Review by: Sheila Klos in Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Spring 1998), pp. 49-50
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