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Who hasn't thought about where - besides from Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida Kahlo - all the ladies artists are? In lots of art books, they are marginalized with chilly efficiency, summarily dismissed in the captions of group photos with the phrase 'identity undiscovered' while every male is named. Donna Seaman brings to amazing life seven of the forgotten artists, one of the better of these day: Gertrude Abercrombie, with her dark, surreal paintings and friendships with Dizzy Gillespie and Sonny Rollins; Bay Area self-portraitist Joan Dark brown; Ree Morton, with her witty, oddly beautiful constructions; Loïs Mailou Jones of the Harlem Renaissance; Lenore Tawney, who mixed weaving and sculpture when artwork and craft were considered mutually exclusive; Christina Ramberg, whose unsettling works drew on pop culture and advertising; and Louise Nevelson, an art-world superstar in her heyday but omitted from recent studies of her age. These women fought to be treated exactly like male designers, to be judged by their work, not their gender or appearance. In great, compassionate prose, Seaman shows what drove them, that they worked, and exactly how they were identified by others in a global where women were themes - not makers - of artwork. Individuality Unknown speaks to all women about their neglected place in history and the troubles they face to be studied as critically as men no matter what their chosen field - and all men considering women's lives.
