Plucking the Fruits of Knowledge
Linda Nochlin: The Surprising Boldness of Mary Cassatt, 15 April 1999
Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman
edited by Judith Barter.
Abrams, 376 pp., £40, November 1998,0 8109 4089 2 Show More
edited by Judith Barter.
Abrams, 376 pp., £40, November 1998,
Mary Cassatt: Painter of Modern Women
by Griselda Pollock.
Thames and Hudson, 224 pp., £7.95, September 1998,0 500 20317 2 Show More
by Griselda Pollock.
Thames and Hudson, 224 pp., £7.95, September 1998,
“... images for the mass market. Although, later in life, she specialised in mothers and children, as Griselda Pollock points out, the images are usually freshly observed and modern in their psychological understanding of the relationship, as well as advanced in their formal language. One of her most interesting representations is of her own mother, a mother ... ”