Rachel Whiteread single-handedly expanded the parameters of contemporary sculpture with her casts of the outer and inner spaces of familiar objects, sometimes in quiet monochrome, sometimes in vivid jewel-like colour. This book, by writer and editor Charlotte Mullins the first significant survey to examine Whiteread s career to date has been substantially updated with a new chapter on 10 major works, including Tate s Turbine Hall installation Embankmentand Cabin, Whiteread s first permanent p...

This little book is a short and pithy introduction to some of the most important artworks borne out of this movement. Fifty outstanding works - from the late 1960s to the present - reflect women's lives and experience, as well as the changing position of women artists, and reveal the impact of feminist ideals and politics on visual culture.