Modern Women / A Partial History. Joan Jonas on Feminism. Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography. For much of photography’s 170-year history, women have expanded its roles by experimenting with every aspect of the medium. Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography presents a selection of outstanding photographs by women artists, charting the medium’s history from the dawn of the modern period to the present. Including over two hundred works, this exhibition features celebrated masterworks and new acquisitions from the collection by such figures as Diane Arbus, Berenice Abbott, Claude Cahun, Imogen Cunningham, Rineke Dijkstra, Florence Henri, Roni Horn, Nan Goldin, Helen Levitt, Lisette Model, Lucia Moholy, Tina Modotti, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, and Carrie Mae Weems, among many others. The exhibition also highlights works drawn from a variety of curatorial departments, including Bottoms, a large-scale Fluxus wallpaper by Yoko Ono.
The exhibition is organized by Roxana Marcoci, Curator; Sarah Meister, Curator; and Eva Respini, Associate Curator, Department of Photography. Modern Women / Related Exhibitions.
Penny slinger bride and groom. Dumont (F.), Des sorcières comme les autres : artistes et féministes dans la France des années 1970 (2014) - Archives du Féminisme. Cet ouvrage rend compte de l’histoire du mouvement des femmes en art en France dans les années 1970. L’analyse des travaux des plasticiennes actives en France entre 1970 et 1982 participe de l’écriture d’un nouveau chapitre de l’histoire de l’art. La première partie s’intéresse aux modalités de la présence et de l’absence des femmes artistes sur la scène artistique parisienne, à l’aide de données chiffrées et d’analyses des discours qui permettent de suivre leur parcours de la formation à la consécration internationale. La seconde partie retrace l’histoire détaillée, tant pratique qu’idéologique, de la dizaine de collectifs de plasticiennes actifs en France à cette période.
Enfin, les deux parties finales regroupent une analyse thématique et esthétique d’une centaine d’artistes, pour la plupart peu étudiées, classées par affinités plastiques et thématiques. L’implication féministe ou les récurrences des habitus culturels féminins y sont particulièrement soulignées. Modersohn-Becker. Diane Radycki Considered one of the most important of the early German modernists, the painter Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907) challenged traditional representations of the female body in art.
She was the first modern woman artist to paint herself nude, as well as mothers and children nude. She also created the first self-portrait while pregnant in the history of art. Modersohn-Becker painted the life she was living as a woman and artist and led the way for generations of women artists. Tragically, her life and career were cut short at age thirty-one, following complications from childbirth. Diane Radycki examines the artist’s fascinating biography, highlighting her friendships with poet Rainer Maria Rilke and sculptor Clara Rilke-Westhoff as well as her personal anguish, including years in an unconsummated marriage, a disappointing affair, and irresolution about motherhood.
Diane Radycki is associate professor of art history at Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. We Are All Clitoridian Women: Notes on Carla Lonzi’s Legacy. Claire Fontaine Through feminism I freed myself from the inferiority-culpability of being clitoridian … and I accused men of everything. Then I started to doubt myself and to defend myself through every possible thought and inquiry into the past. Then I doubted myself completely in rivers of tears … After that I was no longer innocent or guilty. —Carla Lonzi, Taci, anzi parla Carla Lonzi was a feminist, an art critic, a woman seeking freedom, and above all a politically creative subjectivity.
When confronted by her legacy, we find ourselves in an uncomfortable position, where we run the risk of repatriating it and taming it or being dangerously affected by it. The problem with her oeuvre, which is also a problem with her persona—the two cannot be dissociated—is that it fights a merciless battle against complicity with the existing culture, against the incomprehension that accompanies each social and professional recognition, beginning with Lonzi’s own.
I don’t know how to name it. Female Trouble Pinakothek der Moderne Munich. Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich The camera as mirror and stage of female projection. The exhibition focuses on contemporary women artists such as Cindy Sherman, Sarah Lucas, Monica Bonvicini and Pipilotti Rist, who with the aid of photography and video art investigate the female image. The artists explore the question of what image patterns the media age employs for portraying femininity and how these images determine perceptions of women. At the same time, they deconstruct by humorous, ironic and provocative means the traditional iconography of portraying women in the Western world. comunicato stampa Artists represented in the exhibition include: Diane Arbus, Gertrud Arndt, Marta Astfalck-Vietz, Monica Bonvicini, Claude Cahun, Sophie Calle, Julia Margaret Cameron, Comtesse de Castiglione, VALIE EXPORT, Nan Goldin, Lady Clementina Hawarden, Florence Henri, Hannah Höch, Birgit Jürgenssen, Jürgen Klauke, Astrid Klein, Germaine Krull, Nikki S.
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