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Gabrielle Hébert, a woman photographer and painter’s wife - AWARE
15.02.2019 | Sophie Leromain

Gabrielle Hébert, a woman photographer and painter’s wife

Gabrielle Hébert (1853-1934), née d’Uckermann, was married to the painter Ernest Hébert (1817-190... Read more
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Germaine Richier and the Performance of Female Subjectivity and Agency - AWARE
19.01.2019 | Marine Picard

Germaine Richier and the Performance of Female Subjectivity and Agency

The French sculptor Germaine Richier (1902-1959) was the first woman to be given a solo retrospec... Read more
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Three Scandinavian surrealist women artists in Paris - AWARE
12.01.2019 | Nathalie Ernoult

Three Scandinavian surrealist women artists in Paris

In the 1920s and ’30s, Paris was considered the capital of the arts. From the ashes of World War ... Read more
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Younousse Seye: The Making of a Pan-African Woman Artist in Post-Independence Senegal - AWARE
15.12.2018 | Judith Rottenburg

Younousse Seye: The Making of a Pan-African Woman Artist in Post-Independence Senegal

Among the first generation of artists in Senegal following the country’s independence from France... Read more
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The <i>Sorcières</i> Review (1975-1982): a space for for feminist representation marrying the visual arts and litterature - AWARE
09.12.2018 | Ana Bordenave

The Sorcières Review (1975-1982): a space for for feminist representation marrying the visual arts and litterature

Founded by Xavière Gauthier in late 1975, Sorcières was one of that decade’s most widely distribu... Read more
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“Tell Them Everything”: Three Women Artists and the Northern Irish Conflict - AWARE
18.11.2018 | Margot E. Yale

“Tell Them Everything”: Three Women Artists and the Northern Irish Conflict

In 1980, playwright and peace activist Margaretta D’Arcy vandalized a wall at the Ulster Museum a... Read more
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Joan Semmel and Sylvia Sleigh: Two Feminist Views on Male Intimacy - AWARE
07.10.2018 | Pauline Duverger

Joan Semmel and Sylvia Sleigh: Two Feminist Views on Male Intimacy

Sylvia Sleigh (1916-2010) and Joan Semmel (born 1932) are two figures associated with American Re... Read more
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Warding off Disappearance, Getting Beyond Icons: The (Counter-)Visuality of Algerian Women - AWARE
08.09.2018 | Émilie Goudal

Warding off Disappearance, Getting Beyond Icons: The (Counter-)Visuality of Algerian Women

For the Algerian exhibition L’art au féminin, the curator and art historian Nadira Laggoune has h... Read more
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The Bedrooms of Heidi Bucher: Between Poetic and Post-1968 Social Influences - AWARE
15.06.2018 | Adélie Le Guen

The Bedrooms of Heidi Bucher: Between Poetic and Post-1968 Social Influences

Swiss artist Heidi Bucher (1926-1993), forgotten after her death, was able to render architecture... Read more
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Pierre Restany and Women Artists - AWARE
25.05.2018 | Hélène Gheysens

Pierre Restany and Women Artists

The study of the archives of Pierre Restany (1930-2003)[^1] shows that the critic brought many wo... Read more
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Blythe Bohnen and the Concept of the Body in Movement: From Plan to line - AWARE
21.04.2018 | Jeanne Mathas

Blythe Bohnen and the Concept of the Body in Movement: From Plan to line

Blythe Bohnen is an American artist born in 1940 in Evanston, Illinois. A graduate of Smith Colle... Read more
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VALIE EXPORT: Image and Body Space - AWARE
06.11.2017 | Rose-Anne Gush

VALIE EXPORT: Image and Body Space

VALIE EXPORT is an artist, writer and filmmaker who re-mediated “actionism”, re-producing and fix... Read more
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Eroticism in Isabelle Waldberg’s sculpted work - AWARE
14.10.2017 | Nikoleta Tsagkari

Eroticism in Isabelle Waldberg’s sculpted work

Isabelle Waldberg (1911-1990), a French-Swiss sculptor associated with the abstract movement, bel... Read more
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Women, art and the nation. History of the exhibitions of two Egyptian women artists, from the 1950s to the present day: Inji Efflatoun and Gazbia Sirry - AWARE
02.10.2017 | Nadine Atallah

Women, art and the nation. History of the exhibitions of two Egyptian women artists, from the 1950s to the present day: Inji Efflatoun and Gazbia Sirry

As of the start of the 20th century, women were recognised in Egypt as having an important role i... Read more
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Madeleine Jouvray (1862-1935): a sculptress at the turn of the century - AWARE
05.08.2017 | Anne-Laure Huet

Madeleine Jouvray (1862-1935): a sculptress at the turn of the century

“To say that she is a hard worker would be an understatement.” Those are the terms used by Maria ... Read more
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08.06.2017 | Hélène Trespeuch

The feminism of Sherrie Levine through the prism of the supposed “death of the author”

An American artist born in 1947, Sherrie Levine began her art career in New York at the end of th... Read more
Research
« Take out your own trash, girl! » - AWARE
09.02.2017 | Camille Paulhan

« Take out your own trash, girl! »

Many artists in the 1960s took an interest in the dustbin as a sociological, critical and politic... Read more
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Present, continuous, past(s) – A virtual museum at the service of the (re)cognition of women artists in the 20th and 21st centuries - AWARE
19.11.2016 | Milena Páez-Barbat

Present, continuous, past(s) – A virtual museum at the service of the (re)cognition of women artists in the 20th and 21st centuries

Focus on MUMA : Museo de Mujeres Artistas mexicanas Read more
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