Ten women whose painting, sculpture, and photography did not join the canon so much as rebuild it.

Ten painters who took art off the easel and onto the public wall, from Mexico City to Detroit to the flood channels of Los Angeles.

Ten image makers, from the diplomatic salons of Weimar Berlin to the gold mines of Brazil, who taught the world to get its news through a lens.

Ten artists who took sculpture off its pedestal, from Rodin's trembling bronze surfaces to the welded steel, floating mobiles, and raw confessions that followed.

Ten painters who carried their easels out of the studio and into the light, and changed what a picture could be.

From the cubist earthquake of 1907 to the graffiti-charged canvases of the 1980s, these are the ten painters who taught the twentieth century how to see itself.