Download or read book Women Artists on the Leading Edge written by Joan M. Marter and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-07 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the achievements of a group of young women artists who learned about the New Art through an extraordinary faculty of innovators at Douglass College. New Art rejected the dominance of Abstract Expressionism, advocating that art should be based on everyday life and that "anything can be art."