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24.12.2021 | Somayeh Noori Shirazi

Haptic Visuality and Experience: Embodied Ways of Seeing in Ghazaleh Hedayat’s Artworks

In a series of photographs and assemblages produced between 2008 and 2019, Iranian visual artist ... Read more

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10.12.2021 | Doris Sung

Chinese Women Artists in the Early Twentieth Century

This article gives an overview of Chinese women’s contribution to the art reform and the changing... Read more

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26.11.2021 | Sofie Normann Christensen

The Danish Women Artists’ Retrospective Exhibition in Copenhagen, 1920

Since the 1960s and 1970s there has been a growing tendency to produce exhibitions featuring excl... Read more

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08.10.2021 | Maite Garbayo Maetzu and Noemi de Haro García

Artists at the rearguard in the Spanish Pavilion of the Republic (1937)

Manuela Ballester, Francis Bartolozzi and Juana Francisa Rubio. Read more

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10.09.2021 | María Laura Rosa

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Activism and collaborative strategies for Latin American women artists: Estado de emergencia [Sta... Read more

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20.08.2021 | Aurella Yussuf

The Women of the British Black Arts Movement

The early 1980s ushered in a politically charged era among Black visual artists in Britain. Artis... Read more

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23.07.2021 | Andrea Giunta

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While Latin American art has achieved growing recognition since the 1990s, basically as a result ... Read more

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09.07.2021 | Jacqueline Millner

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As an art theorist, writer and educator, I came to care ethics as a way to think through the rela... Read more

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10.03.2021 | Gabriela Salgado

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Olabisi Obafunke Silva (1962-2019) was a renowned curator of contemporary art, both in Africa and... Read more

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13.12.2020 | Mae-ling Lokko

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For three generations of women born between Ghana’s independence in 1957 and the turn of the cent... Read more

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19.09.2020 | Julia Hartmann

Nudes in 1920s China: Emancipation and Agency in the Works of Female Artists

On 10 April 1929, the First National Art Exhibition opened to the public in Shanghai and manifest... Read more

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21.06.2020 | Paul Narjoz-Delatour

The Evolution of the Artistic Portrayal of Women by Chinese Female Artists in the 20th Century

As the People’s Republic of China celebrated its 70th anniversary, the cult of President Xi Jinpi... Read more

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10.05.2020 | Anna Zielazny

Between socialism and capitalism: woman’s body in the art of Sanja Iveković, Orshi Drozdik and Eglė Rakauskaitė

This thesis is about the art of three artists from the so-called Eastern Bloc: Sanja Iveković (bo... Read more

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15.04.2020 | Gina McDaniel Tarver

“The vision to demand that which is good” : Alicia Barney, María Evelia Marmolejo and the origins of Colombian eco-art

“Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior... Read more

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18.01.2020 | Georgina G. Gluzman

María Carmen Portela: art, politics, new women, and social commitment

The life of sculptor and engraver María Carmen Portela (1896-1984) offers a remarkable example of... Read more

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17.11.2019 | Maggie Borowitz

Anything or Nothing: Mira Schendel’s Droguinhas

In a series of photographs from 1966, the Swiss-born, Brazilian artist Mira Schendel (1919–1988) ... Read more

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21.09.2019 | Sherena Razek

Decolonizing Documentary Photography: The Rawiya Collective in Palestine

What can images that move do for people who cannot? What can documentary photography as a practic... Read more

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07.09.2019 | Madeline Murphy Turner

The Archival Impulse: Magali Lara and Carmen Boullosa’s Collaborative Artists’ Books

It is well known that history has by and large been written from the perspective of the patriarch... Read more