Christine Macel is a French curator. She was the director of the 2017 Venice Biennale, and is chief curator at the Centre Pompidou, Paris.

'As a survey and history of abstract art the book stands as something as complete as you could wish ... One has to be wary of describing books as ground-breaking, because the truth is they are usually built on work that has gone before and ride a rising tide. This is, however, a major contribution to art history in general and a neglected corner (if that’s the right word) in particular' - Art Book Review

• Foreword by Serges LasvignesPreface by Bernard Blistene EssaysShe Makes Abstraction, Christine MacelAbstraction? Co-Creation?, Griselda PollockWomen Artists and Abstract Photography, Karolina Ziebinska-LewandowskaStand Up Against, Right Up Against, Anne Montfort-TanguyWhere Was Sisterhood?, Abigail Solomon-Godeau Works1. Art, Spiritualism and Theosophy2. The Pioneers of Abstraction in Dance3. Women in Vorticism4. Women in the Russian Avant-Garde5. Women at the Bauhaus6. Microphotography, Pattern, Decoration, Abstraction7. From Cercle et Carre to Abstraction-Creation8. Creative Photography at the Texas Woman’s University9. The Enduring Legacies of Hilla Rebay and Peggy Guggenheim10. Finished Pictures, Polish, Candy: Women Artists of the New York School11. Fibre Art, Soft Art12. Eccentric Abstraction13. Whose Voice? Women Film-Makers and Cinema History in the 1970s14. Beyond Boundaries: Black Art in America, 1960-198015. The Abstract Concept of ‘Woman’: Griselda Pollock, Lucy R. Lippard, Linda NochlinChronology

Christine Macel is a French curator. She was the director of the 2017 Venice Biennale, and is chief curator at the Centre Pompidou, Paris.

'As a survey and history of abstract art the book stands as something as complete as you could wish ... One has to be wary of describing books as ground-breaking, because the truth is they are usually built on work that has gone before and ride a rising tide. This is, however, a major contribution to art history in general and a neglected corner (if that’s the right word) in particular' - Art Book Review

• Foreword by Serges LasvignesPreface by Bernard Blistene EssaysShe Makes Abstraction, Christine MacelAbstraction? Co-Creation?, Griselda PollockWomen Artists and Abstract Photography, Karolina Ziebinska-LewandowskaStand Up Against, Right Up Against, Anne Montfort-TanguyWhere Was Sisterhood?, Abigail Solomon-Godeau Works1. Art, Spiritualism and Theosophy2. The Pioneers of Abstraction in Dance3. Women in Vorticism4. Women in the Russian Avant-Garde5. Women at the Bauhaus6. Microphotography, Pattern, Decoration, Abstraction7. From Cercle et Carre to Abstraction-Creation8. Creative Photography at the Texas Woman’s University9. The Enduring Legacies of Hilla Rebay and Peggy Guggenheim10. Finished Pictures, Polish, Candy: Women Artists of the New York School11. Fibre Art, Soft Art12. Eccentric Abstraction13. Whose Voice? Women Film-Makers and Cinema History in the 1970s14. Beyond Boundaries: Black Art in America, 1960-198015. The Abstract Concept of ‘Woman’: Griselda Pollock, Lucy R. Lippard, Linda NochlinChronology