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Grand funk railroad album covers12/18/2023 ![]() Several visitors to a museum sculpture garden are holding opinions about modern art, while others are holding court or holding wolves at bay. In paintings bright with jewel-toned pinks, reds, and greens, there are women holding red balloons, tea cups, and garden shears. Along with holding on, you could also LET GO. Hold on." (Spoiler alert: The charming back jacket reads, "One more Thought. If there was ever a time to hold onto SOMEthing, this is it. It sets the tone: "You hold in your hands a thing I hold most dear. Unusual for Kalman, the text is typeset rather than handwritten, but the book's jacket copy features her appealing, irregularly capitalized hand lettering. This volume is an expanded version of a self-published booklet Kalman produced during the pandemic to raise funds to combat hunger. Women Holding Things combines so many wonderful elements of Maira Kalman's work: her uncanny ability to balance whimsy and worry, simplicity and depth - and thoughts both mundane and philosophical in spare text and colorful paintings, which often channel Matisse. ![]() But other "Onlys" are harder to pinpoint in these crowded, small format reproductions - lending Humes' book a fun Where's "Walda" vibe at times. The solo woman at the 1946 assembly of the American Society of Sugar Beet Technologists (yes, really) is easy to spot because of her elaborate hat. Clarissa Wimbush stands out as the only female member of Virginia's all-Black Old Dominion Dental Association in 1961, as does Gloria Richardson, the only woman at a meeting of Black Civil Rights leaders with Attorney General Robert F. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher sits front row center at 10 Downing Street in a shirtwaist dress, flanked by the two dozen men in dark suits who made up her new cabinet in 1979.Įven more fascinating are some of the stories behind lesser known female vanguards - including a shipyard worker, a race car driver, a gold miner, and several scientists, nurses, and medical students. War correspondent Martha Gellhorn, in a no-nonsense trench coat, engages with soldiers on the Italian front a few months before D-day in 1944. A young Frida Kahlo looks tiny beside her enormous husband-to-be, Diego Rivera, photographed with a contingent of all-male painters, sculptors and other arts workers at a 1929 May Day march in Mexico City. There are familiar faces among these standouts, including banker Christine Lagarde, Pakistan Prime Minister Benazhir Bhutto, writer and wit Dorothy Parker, and Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham. In The Only Woman, Immy Humes has collected 100 mainly black and white group photographs that feature a lone, trailblazing woman "who claimed space in a man's world." With few words, these books speak volumes. Three recent standouts feature female subjects of every shape and hue from all over the world, doing the things that women have historically done - and also the things that men have historically done. One of many happy results of the publishing industry's push for greater inclusivity: more art books showcasing not just women's art, but women's capabilities.
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