Visions: Stories About Women Artists

by Leslie Sills, Mary Cassatt, Betye Saar

Presents the lives and works of four pioneering women artists, Mary Cassatt, Leonora Carrington, Betye Saar, and Mary Frank

Genres: Art

58 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1993

About the author

Leslie Sills is a sculptor whose work has been shown at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and other museums and galleries throughout the country. She has lectured on art and writing at museums, art schools, universities, colleges, and public schools.

She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Reviews

[Stephanie Willing · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed reading about these artists. I was somewhat familiar with Mary Cassatt and Leonora Carrington, but I had never learned about Betye Saar and Mark Frank. Their biographies were fascinating, especially Betye Saar's. Their artworks leaped off the page with beauty, horror, tragedy, compassion, hope, fury, and love. It made me want to run out and see these women's works in person.

One star deducted for the final line of Betye Saar's biography which felt like an unnecessary universalization of her work and a reduction of the power and importance of her work as a black artist.

[Stephanie · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is dated, in which it feels like reading an encyclopedia. This is a book for people just entering into learning more about great women artists, simplified and easy to swallow. For it's time of publication- this book was good! However, I wouldn't recommend it. Instead try digging through wikipedia's articles on the 4 women featured, you'll learn more.