UTRILLO’S MOTHER <i> by Sarah Baylis (Rutgers Press: $19.95; 246 pp.) </i>

“Baylis writes about art and politics, women and sex, oppression, freedom, self-expression and social stigma from an ardently feminist perspective. Her vision is frank and refreshing, sparing neither the sacred cows of Impressionism nor our preconceptions of their world as portrayed in their paintings.”