Seductive Subversion

Unfortunately women have historically taken the back seat to men in art. Seldom do you hear about a woman artist’s work even though women are every bit as talented as men in the arts.


Things have improved, but even today women struggle to have their voices heard in all things creative. It’s not fair, but it is a fact. Back in the 1950s and 1960s the inequality was even more prevalent.


In Abbeville Publishing Group’s new hardbound book, Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists 1958-1968 readers are given a historical tour of that turbulent era in American Art.


This special catalog of work illustrates how a small group of break-out women artists tested and tried the long established ‘male’ dominated Pop Art scene.


With more the 125 images complemented by artists’ bios, historical text and comments by the artists and their contemporaries readers are given a rare peek into the world of Women Pop Artists of that period.


Controversial and often shunned by the art elite, each of these women challenged the pre-disposed assumptions about women in the arts, contributed ground-breaking new works and opened the way for other women artists in the future.


I recommend that all artists, male or female, take the time to read and look over this book that examines an important pivotal point in the evolution of women in the arts.