Research
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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
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17.07.2019 | Amalia Caputo
Tecla Tofano A Pioneering Feminist Artist in Venezuela
Tecla Tofano (1927–1995) was an Italian-Venezuelan ceramist, draughtswoman and writer whose work ... Read more
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12.06.2019 | Lara Demori
Maternal artivism: a brief overview of Latin American women artists in the eighties
“The maternal body has a paradoxical status as both natural and exceptional, a sanctioned yet hig... Read more
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04.05.2019 | Margot Eben
Being a woman sculptor in the first half of the 20th century: the case of Claire J. R. Colinet
While the Art Deco-type statuettes that Claire Jeanne Roberte Colinet (1885-1972) sculpted during... Read more
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06.04.2019 | Karolina Wilczyńska
Trying to Fulfil the Political Promise: The Hackney Flashers and British Socially Engaged Art in the 1970s.
The activity of the Hackney Flashers is emblematic of the artistic experiments performed in the U... Read more
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17.03.2019 | Roberta Garieri
Writings of subversion: the Chiliean arpilleristas
This is the story of not one, but many women who, in shared anonymity, chose to testify against a... Read more
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24.02.2019 | Camille Viéville
New Pathways, New Voices. Women Painters and Self-Portraiture in Early 20th Century Europe
Over the course of the first decades of the 20th century, women painters, notably in Europe, were... Read more
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
