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Switch takes a look at some of TV's most iconic working women.

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Defined by ultra-feminine chic attitude in relaxed mood, Valentino Dress Spring / Summer 2015 Catalog brings several must - have iconic pieces for women enriched by sensuous patchwork appliqué and intriguing cutout embroidery work on soft fabric with a touch of fresh, gentle shades of pastel tones and signature motif in multicolor.

For almost every brand or magazine for which Chaix works, she starts by envisioning a certain woman, idealised but also drawn from real - world observations: «Who is she, is she sensual, distant, iconic, full of energy or something else?»

Novack's film draws fascinating, heretofore unexplored connections, between the elegance of André's beloved grandmother and the Black Church of his youth and his later iconic, barrier - breaking work at publications like Women's Wear Daily, W and Vogue.

Jean Zimmerman is the author The Orphanmaster and several works of nonfiction, including Love Fiercely, a portrait of an iconic couple of Gilded Age Manhattan, and The Women of the House.

«In reverse chronological order, Cline - Ransome's pithy, lyrical lines lay out the prolific achievements of Harriet Tubman, from her campaign for women's suffrage to her role as a spy during the civil war to her iconic work as a conductor on the underground railroad, all the way back to her childhood.

Developer Grasshopper Manufacture aren't new to excess blood, animated graphics and iconic women as made evident by their previous works including No More Heroes and Lollipop Chainsaw.

The subjects of her work, many reflective of the artist herself or iconic women through history, are modernised with visual characteristics of resilience, passion and allure.

British artist Linder is possibly best known for a record sleeve she designed for the Buzzcock's single Orgasm Addict in 1977 - an iconic image, of a naked woman with an iron for a head and grinning mouths instead of nipples, has become a symbol, not only of a defining era of punk culture and feminism, but also a microcosm for her expansive body of work, which operates on a deeply contextual level with issues of gender, feminism, stereotyping and sexualisation, echoing the work of Hannah Hoch, the German Dadaist for whom this edition was created in homage.

Among her most iconic works is the sculpture Tale (1992), which depicts a woman crouched on all fours with a trail of excrement trailing behind her, capturing the anxieties about the body and the sense of despair that characterized the period.

Another toned down but nonetheless stunning blast from the past is the iconic four - part work, «Untitled News Women,» by Robert Heinecken at Santa Monica's Marc Selwyn Fine Art.

The work that Marshall showed at that time was called The Woman at the Window, a collage in direct homage to Bearden's iconic works in the same vein.

She also recalls Angela Davis stating in 2007 that the black women's movement started with «The Liberation of Aunt Jemima,» Saar's self - described «iconic» work from 1972.

«Body of Art juxtaposes Sandro Botticelli's Venus with Vanessa Beecroft's army of naked women, the iconic head of Nefertiti, and the work of Ryan Trecartin, among many other artists, to stunning effect.

Much of the art from Womanhouse was destroyed, stolen, or poorly documented, yet it remains an iconic work from the Feminist Art movement and is a crucial milestone in the intellectual progression between the Fresno Feminist Art Program (1970 - 1971) at Fresno State College and the Woman's Building, L.A. (1973 - 1991).

A pioneer of photomontage, whose images of women presaged the ideas of Simone de Beauvoir and Second Wave Feminism half a century later, Hoch was a pivotal figure in Dada, the anti-art movement that outraged conventional opinion in the final years of World War One, working alongside iconic male artists such as George Grosz, John Heartfield and Raoul Hausmann.

Highlights include works by the iconic 19th - century painter Childe Hassam, who popularized impressionism in the United States with his lush city scenes and natural landscapes; Japanese American artist Yasuo Kuniyoshi's bold image of the modern woman as a bather in the 1920s; and a recent minimalist seascape by photographer Catherine Opie that reduces the ocean to subtle, ethereal layers of color in which the human figure is almost overwhelmed by natural environment.

Best known for her avant - garde work in New York in the 1960s, Kusama uses her most iconic motifs here (eyes, a woman's profile, polka dots) to recreate the story.

It includes rarely seen plasters and drawings which have never been exhibited before and showcases the full evolution of his career across five decades, from early works such as Head of a Woman [Flora Mayo] 1926 to iconic bronze sculptures such as Walking Man I 1960.

The Woman paintings combined the gestures and stylistic elements of his previous work, but they added primal figurative representations of what De Kooning considered to be iconic female images.

The work invites inevitable comparison to Judy Chicago's iconic work The Dinner Party, which set the table for the history of women.

Inspired by iconic images from art history and pop culture, her works deal with subjects as delicate and personal as erotic pleasure and love, and offer an unconventional view of women in art.

Through a modest exhibition of well - known works, viewers can follow the actions of the Guerrilla Girls, from their appropriation of Ingres» Odalisque and Slave to create their iconic poster, Do Women Have to Be Naked to Get Into the Met.

One of Kruger's most iconic works is one she did for the Women's March on Washington in 1989, when new laws were being introduced to overturn the 1973 Roe v Wade Supreme Court Decision.

Born in Newark, NJ in the mid 1940s, Barbara Kruger is a modern Pop Artist who efficiently worked her way through high level design positions with famous women's publications, such as Mademoiselle Magazine and House and Garden, prior to developing her own iconic brand.

The Dinner Party is an iconic work commemorating women's achievements in all disciplines,» explains Sackler, founder of the Brooklyn Museum's Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, the permanent home of Judy Chicago's work.

Iconic metal floor - pieces and free - standing sculptures are paired with complementary works by peers like Agnes Martin — a woman!

It includes rarely seen plasters and drawings which have never been exhibited before and showcases the full evolution of Giacometti's career across five decades, from early works such as Head of a Woman [Flora Mayo] 1926 to iconic bronze sculptures such as Walking Man I 1960.

Barnes is one of 1,038 women honored in Chicago's iconic feminist work.

Lush images of modern dance pioneers; haunting early cyanotypes of algae (the first photographic works to be produced by a woman); majestic geographical surveys taken along the Union Pacific Railroad, iconic Depression - era images taken under the Farm Security Administration's famed photography program; Berenice Abbott's epic documentation of 1930s New York for the Federal Art Project; stunning 19th century vistas of the Egypt and Syria; scenes and portraits of Ellis Island Immigrants, the Statue of Liberty under construction...

This year's San Francisco Decorator Showcase is a beautiful Elizabethan - style home designed by iconic architect Julia Morgan (notable works include the legendary Hearst Castle and became the first woman to be awarded the American Institute of Architects» Gold Medal).