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The Sorcières (1975-1982): a space for for feminist representation marrying the visual arts and litterature - AWARE
09.12.2018 | Ana Bordenave

The Sorcières (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
Article
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
Research
Lina Bo Bardi and the magazine Habitat - AWARE
25.10.2016 | Cecilia Braschi

Lina Bo Bardi and the magazine Habitat

In 1950, Habitat, a “review of architecture and art in Brazil”, was the tool of an ambitious hand... Read more
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Yoko Ono and the poetics of ephemerality - AWARE
04.10.2016 | Annalisa Rimmaudo

Yoko Ono and the poetics of ephemerality

Nails, jars, ladders, doors, rags, piles of dirt, and yes, of course, an apple. Such is the view ... Read more
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Roni Horn and her literary doubles - AWARE
31.08.2016 | Marjorie Micucci

Roni Horn and her literary doubles

In 1975 Roni Horn (born in 1955, in New York where she lives and works) made her first solo trip ... Read more
Research
News About One or Two Witches in France in the 1970s - AWARE
20.06.2016 | Fabienne Dumont

News About One or Two Witches in France in the 1970s

In France, in the 1970s, artists, critics and people interested in art were involved in feminist ... Read more
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