The Story of Art without Men

The bestselling category killer comes to paperback with a new chapter and a full publicity and marketing campaign

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Book of the Year- Waterstones, The Times, Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, iPaper and Bookshop.org

'A spirited, inspiring, brilliantly illustrated history of female artistic endeavour' Laura Freeman, The Times

'Will change the history of art . . . thank God' Tracey Emin

How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway?

Discover the glittering Sofonisba Anguissola of the Renaissance, the radical work of Harriet Powers in the nineteenth-century USA and the artist who really invented the Readymade. Explore the Dutch Golden Age, the astonishing work of post-War artists in Latin America and the women artists defining art in the 2020s. Have your sense of art history overturned, and your eyes opened to many art forms often overlooked or dismissed. From the Cornish coast to Manhattan, Nigeria to Japan, this is the history of art as it's never been told before.

'I am so thrilled this book exists' Elizabeth Day

About the Author

Katy Hessel is an art historian, presenter and curator dedicated to celebrating female artists. The founder of @thegreatwomenartists and the podcast of the same name, she has collaborated with Tate Modern and Dior, lectured at Cambridge University and the National Gallery and presented programmes for the BBC.