Feminism under Socialism? The 1960s Generation of Women Artists and the “Womenʼs Question”
Author: Marianna Placáková[1] The interpretation of state-socialist womenʼs emancipation as we know it today began to gradually take shape in the post-1989 transition period, which saw political democratization, the transition to a market economy, and the transformation of state and public institutions. Although some women scholars and activists living...
Book review: Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex by Sophia Giovannitti
Author: Marina Vinnik This book explores art and life, work, and art of Sophia Giovannitti, whose website features a list of works is available: https://www.sophiagiovannitti.work/work In the book Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex, the author dives deep into what we call love, art, or work in...
Polish Women Artists at the Sao Paulo Biennale
Author: Wiktoria Szczupacka At the time of this blog post is being written, the XXXV edition of the Sao Paulo Biennale is currently taking place. Unfortunately, I cannot spot a single Polish name on the list of artists. This is a pity, because for years this event has...
Carmine-colored shoes: intervening in public spaces against gender violence
Author: Cecilia Itzel Noriega Vega Red Shoes is an artwork made by the Mexican artist Elina Chauvet. The first installation was created in Ciudad Juárez in 2009 and consisted of placing 33 pairs of red-painted shoes on Avenida Juárez in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, a place where many disappearances...
A song to democracy
Author: Natalya Antonova This poem should have been A critical analysis Of the suppressed and invisible Women’s art work In the visual arts scene. This poem should have forayed into patriarchy – That evil Geist. It could have featured an interview with a female artist Who swings...
Anni Albers’ Theorisation of Textiles: Interwoven Narratives of the 20th Century Art
Author: Marina Vinnik The life and work of Anni Albers (1899 – 1994), born Annelise Elsa Frieda Fleischmann, embodies many key narratives of the 20th century and provides truly fascinating research material. Born to a Jewish family in Berlin Charlottenburg, she found a productive artistic path and survived...
A discreet disagreement with the concept of motherhood
Author: Eda Tuulberg The following post[1] is a brief analysis of Estonian artist Silvi Liiva’s[2] 1977 etching Põld-Põlluke [Field, Little Field] which I saw during one studio visit. In many ways, this is an exceptional work in the context of the representation of motherhood in late Soviet Estonian...
Aging and Images of Youth: Yente’s Collages
Author: Ayelen Pagnanelli Yente was born Eugenia Crenovich in 1905 in Buenos Aires, Argentina from a well-off Jewish Ukrainian immigrant family. Yente was her nickname, which she used as her artistic name throughout her life. Primarily known for her investigations into geometric abstraction in Buenos Aires, in the 1960s,...
From Emi Pikler’s nappy-changing table to the artificial womb. Feminist design history of giving birth and being born.
Author: Viktoria Popovics Book review: Michelle Millar Fisher and Amber Winick: Designing Motherhood. Things that make and break our Birth, MIT Press, 2021. https://designingmotherhood.org/ Designing Motherhood is a collaborative research project in a variety of forms, based on the personal experiences and professional engagement of two design historians,...
Women Artists and National Art Histories: the case of Andrée Moch in Argentina
Author: Georgina G. Gluzman In Argentina, art history has been written as a local account. However, circulations have been crucial for the Argentine scene . This short text explores the connections between women artists and migration, by focusing on the case of Andrée Moch (1879-1953). Her status as a woman...
