Isabel Bishop quotes

Isabel Bishop quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I didn't want to be a woman artist. I just wanted to be an artist.”
-- Isabel Bishop

Source : "The "New Woman" Revised : Painting and Gender Politics on Fourteenth Street". Book by by Ellen Wiley Todd, Ch. 7, p. 273, 1992.

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“The nude, if you tackle it, is a very fascinating subject, especially for a woman.”
-- Isabel Bishop

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“Traditionally the Nude was used to express formulations about life as larger-than-life, as Heroic or Ideal... The nude is not a 'genre' subject.”
-- Isabel Bishop

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“I hope my work is recognizable as being by a woman, though I certainly would never deliberately make it feminine in any way, in subject or treatment. But if I speak in a voice which is my own, it's bound to be the voice of a woman.”
-- Isabel Bishop

Source : Helen Yglesias, Isabel Bishop (1989). “Isabel Bishop”, Rizzoli International Publications

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