Anonymous Was a Woman/a Celebration in Words and Images of Traditional American Art-And the Women Who Made It. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.Anonymous Was a Woman/a Celebration in Words and Images of Traditional American Art-And the Women Who Made It

In print since it was first published in 1979, this book is a glorious collection of American folk art by "ordinary" women of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Filled with beautiful four-color reproductions of samplers, quilts, paintings, and needle-pictures along with excerpts from diaries and letters, sampler verse, books, and magazines of the period, Anonymous Was a Woman celebrates the daily experiences and inner lives of women who, in acts of love and duty, created many masterpieces of American folk art.

Mirra Bank is a filmmaker who lives in New York City. She spent years researching Anonymous Was a Woman-both the book and the PBS film of the same name. Her other award-winning films include Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, Spirit to Spirit: Nikki Giovanni, and Nobody's Girls.

Phyllis Rose, whose preface is new to this addition of the book, is the author of Parallel Lives and editor of The Norton Book of Women's Lives.