A History of Art, from prehistoric times to the present day, told through the women who played a leading role in it, with full-colour illustrations, by the author of "That wasn't in my Art History book".

"Look like a woman and paint like a man". That is what they said about the French avant-garde artist Émilie Charmy in the middle of the 20th century, or about the Castilian Elena Brockman, one of the few artists with a work in the Prado Museum. This sentence encapsulates many of the keys to understanding the difficult acceptance of female artistic activity throughout history. This silence is subsequent to her creations: if after wars history is written by the victors, art manuals were only written from a male perspective. But didn't women express themselves from the beginning of time? The historian Manuel Jesús Roldán reconstructs the History of Art by following the forgotten trail of women artists who, in all periods and on all continents, painted, sculpted, designed or photographed with the same aspiration inherent to the human being.

Publisher: El paseo