The Women Artists Shows.Salons.Societies project was launched in 2017 as a collaboration between Artl@s and AWARE. Combining AWARE’s ambitions to restore the presence of 20th-century women artists in the history of art, and Artl@s’s desire to provide scholars with the data and tools necessary to question the canonical art historical narratives through quantitative and cartographic analyses, we decided to work on group exhibitions of women artists.
Our first ambition is to build a community of scholars and work together to develop a common terminology and even possibly a common and consistent methodology to study these events, because the ones used in the field of exhibition history are inadequate.None of these exhibitions “made art history” or can be thought as “exemplary,”and the discursive silence that surrounds them require art historians to come-up with new questions, new research strategies, and new discourses.
Through the programs we organized and will organize, and through the tools and resources we are making available to the public, including this issue of the Artl@s Bulletin, we also want to contribute to a global history of all-women exhibitions from the 1870s to the 1970s.
TÉLÉCHARGER ET LIRE L’INTRODUCTION EN INTÉGRALITÉ SUR LE SITE DE L’ARTL@S BULLETIN.
À la fin du XIXe siècle, à la suite des partages de la Pologne entre la Russie, la Prusse et l’Empire austro-hongrois, les conditions du développement de l’art polonais ne sont pas favorables au sein d’une nation privée d’indépendance. Cependant, le pays connaît alors une exceptionnelle prolifération de talents artistiques. Face à un manque de structures d’enseignement, de marché et de promotion de l’art, les créateurs se constituent en groupes pour promouvoir leur travail. Les femmes artistes, bien que privées de possibilités de formation, commencent à se professionnaliser et fonder leurs propres collectifs. Les enjeux de la première exposition du Cercle des artistes polonaises en 1899 seront l’objet de notre analyse.
Art historian and psychologist, Ewa Bobrowska (Ph.D. University of Paris–Panthéon–Sorbonne) is a specialist of nineteenth– and twentieth–century art with a particular emphasis on Polish artists abroad, especially in France, and Polish art in an international context. She has curated numerous exhibitions in France and Poland. Currently Associate Program Officer of Academic Programs at the Terra Foundation for American Art in Paris, she was previously chief curator of the art collection of the Bibliothèque Polonaise in Paris.