Research
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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
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25.05.2018 | Hélène Gheysens
Pierre Restany and Women Artists
The study of the archives of Pierre Restany (1930-2003) shows that the critic brought many wo... Read more
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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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
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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
