Women, Aging, and Art

Frima Fox Hofrichter is a Professor of the History of Art & Design at Pratt Institute, USA, author of Judith Leyster: A Woman Painter in Holland’s Golden Age (1989) and Oxford’s online bibliography Gender and Art in the 17th Century, and a co-author of Janson’s History of Art. Midori Yoshimoto is Associate Professor of Art History at New Jersey City University, USA, specializing in post-1945 Japanese art and its diaspora and women artists, and author of Into Performance: Japanese Women Artists in New York (2005).

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Preface
Acknowledgments

1. Introduction Frima Fox Hofrichter and Midori Yoshimoto
2. Alchemy’s Old Wives M. E. Warlick
3. Silenced, Sidelined, and Even Undressed: Old Women in Seventeenth-Century Religious Art Zirka Z. Filipczak
4. Anger, Envy, and Aging: Early Modern Transgressive Old Women Jane Kromm
5. Frans Hals’s Portrait of an Older Judith Leyster Paul Crenshaw
6. Old Maids: Images of Elderly Servants in Early Modern Europe Diane Wolfthal
7. Portraits of Power: Masks of Northwest Coast Matriarchs in the Nineteenth Century Megan A. Smetzer
8. Paetini and Vaekehu: Change and Aging in the Portraits of Marquesan Matriarchs Carol Ivory
9. Old Woman/New Vision: Lucia Moholy’s Photographs of Clara Zetkin Vanessa Rocco
10. Sculptor, Hostess, Witch: Louise Nevelson’s Boxes Johana Ruth Epstein
11. Museums and the Missing Women of Sande Susan Kart
12. Aging and Feminist Art: Joan Semmel’s Visible Bodies Rachel Middleman
13. Darkness of Girlhood and Lightness of Aging: Miwa Yanagi’s Transcendental Old Women Midori Yoshimoto

List of Contributors
Index