Berenice Abbott: Changing New York, the Complete WPA Project.(Review)

From: Art Journal | Date: June 22, 1999| Author: Platt, Susan | Copyright information

Bonnie Yochelson. New York: The New Press and Museum of the City of New York, 1997. 399 pp., 440+ b/w ills. $60.

If one were to judge by the size and ambitions of these three books on women artists, it would be tempting to think that women are progressing rapidly toward parity with men in twentieth-century art history and contemporary art criticism. These new books on Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), Nell Blaine (1922-1996), and Alice Neel (1900-1984), along with books such ...

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