Research
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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
Afro-Brazilian artists in the transition between two centuries
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
Care and Art
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
With the kings’ permission
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
Worldforming by Ghanaian Women in Architecture
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
Thesis or dissertation abstract
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
Thesis or dissertation abstract
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
Thesis or dissertation abstract
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
Thesis or dissertation abstract
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
