Defiant Women (eBook)

Catherine McCormack is an author and art historian. Her most recent books are Women in the Picture: Women, Art and the Power of Looking (Icon Books and WW Norton, 2021) which has been translated in China, Korea and Turkey, and The Art of Looking Up (Quarto, 2019). Recent essays include 'Here's Looking at You Maillol' published by the Kunsthaus, Zürich 2022; 'The Femme Fatale, or Let's Not Lose Our Heads' in Gender/Power/Gaze, Hamburg Kunsthalle, 2023 and 'Pirelli, Let Me Count the Ways', Copperfield Gallery, 2023. She is a regular contributor to the New European newspaper and BBC Radio4 Front Row as a critic and has held teaching positions at University College London, the University of Oxford and Sotheby's Institute of Art, London, where she currently teaches feminist art history. In 2019-20 she was guest curator at Richard Saltoun Gallery, London producing the acclaimed two part show Matrescence and Maternality, and in 2022-23 she curated a year-long programme of talks, events, conversations and performances on the topic of 'Radical Joy' for Unit Gallery London.