Madam & Eve: Women Portraying Women

Madam & Eve is a rich and varied overview of how women artists have depicted women in art over the last fifty years. It presents the many different media and approaches that women have used to create images of themselves and other women, and it examines the impact that the feminist movement has had on contemporary art. 200 artists are each represented by a single work. A historical introduction sets up the artistic and cultural context for the rest of the book, which focuses on art since the 1970s and covers the universal themes of the body, life, death, stories and icons. The artworks range from eye-catching to poignant, powerful, political, idiosyncratic and playful. Together they are also an examination of the impact of feminism on contemporary art.

About the Author

Liz Rideal is an artist and Reader in Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London and has worked for over thirty years with the National Portrait Gallery, London. Her artwork is held in public collections including Tate, V&A and the Yale Centre for British Art, USA. It has been exhibited widely in Europe and the USA. She is the author of Mirror Mirror: Self-portraits by Women Artists, Insights: Self-portraits, and How to Read Paintings. Kathleen Soriano is an independent curator, broadcaster and Chair of the Liverpool Biennial.

Formerly, Director of Exhibitions and Collections, National Portrait Gallery, London; Director, Compton Verney; and Director of Exhibitions at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. She has written for many exhibition publications including Australia, Anselm Kiefer and Stephen Chambers RA: The Court of Redonda.