中文简介：

策展人Ann Coxon展示了50件不同媒介的艺术作品，在这段穿越过去200年艺术历史的强大旅程中，揭示了对母性的复杂多样性的反应。

在西方艺术中，母性一直是被描述的主题之一，但很少受到质疑或挑战。我们可能会回避一个被视为多愁善感、与理想主义的女性气质、养育和关怀过度相关的主题。无论我们自己是母亲还是在更广泛的意义上带来或培育生命，我们都对母性有所理解。我们是在女性身体里诞生的，成长于混沌、具有挑战性、自我否定和变革性的母性经验中。艺术家们孕育了他们的创作，以各种方式表现这一重要而复杂的主题，提供了对母性可能意味着什么的洞察，包括其欢乐和挑战，并试图阐明其未说的方面。

这本精美的礼品书深入研究了艺术家眼中的母性主题，提供了对这一艺术历史主题的全新见解，并揭示了过去200年中面对和重新想象母性的方式。本书收录了50件不同媒介的艺术作品，展现了母性的所有复杂性。

英文简介：

Featuring fifty artworks in a variety of media, curator Ann Coxon reveals a complex diversity of responses to motherhood in this powerful journey through the past 200 years of art.

Depictions of motherhood are ever present in Western art, yet rarely questioned or challenged. We may shy away from a subject that could be seen as sentimental or overly associated with idealistic constructs of femininity, nurture and care. Whether we are mothers ourselves, or whether we bring or nurture life in a wider sense, we all have some understanding of motherhood. We are all born of a womans body. We are formed from the messy, challenging, self-denying and transformative experiences of motherhood. Giving birth to their creations, artists have represented this vital and complex subject in a variety of ways, providing insight into what motherhood might mean, its joys and challenges, and seeking to articulate its unspoken aspects.

This beautiful gift book delves into the subject of motherhood as seen through the eyes of artists, providing a fresh insight into maternity as an art-historical subject and revealing the ways in which it has been confronted and re-imagined in the past 200 years. Featuring fifty artworks in a variety of media, this book is a celebration of motherhood in all its complexity.