Title: All-women art spaces in Europe in the long 1970s /
Authors: Jakubowska, Agata; Deepwell, Katy, 1962-; Helsingin yliopisto,; European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies. 2014 :
Year: 2018
Subjects: Feminism and art Congresses.; Women artists Exhibitions; Exhibitions Social aspects History Congresses.; Women artists Congresses.; Feminism and art; Women artists; Frauenkunst; Kooperation; Kunstausstellung; Offspace; Europa; USA
Abstract: "The texts gathered in this volume embrace women artists-only exhibitions, festivals, collective art projects, groups and associations, organised in the long 1970s in Europe (1968-1984). These all-women art initiatives are closely related to developments within the political and politicized women's movement in Europe and America but what emerges is the varied and plural manner of their engagements with feminism(s) alongside their creation of 'heterotopias' in relation to specific sites/ politics/ collaborative art practices. This book presents examples from Italy, Spain, UK, Portugal, Austria, Poland, Denmark, Germany (East and West), The Netherlands and France. While each chapter is largely devoted to one country, the authors point to how the local and specific political situation in which these initiatives emerged is linked to global tendencies as well as inter-European exchanges. Each chapter of this book thus assesses the impact of travelling views of feminism, by considering connections made between women artists (often when travelling abroad) or their knowledge of art practices from abroad."--Back cover.
Contents: Women artists' collectives in France: a multiplicity of positions in a turbulent context / Fabienne Dumont -- Making space for feminism. all-women art exhibitions in Sweden in the 1970s / Annika Öhrner -- Feminist collaborative projects in the UK in the 1970s / Katy Deepwell -- 'For us, art is work': In[female symbol]Akt, International Action Community of Women Artists / Elke Krasny -- The VBKÖ's archive as a site of political confrontation, or how can you sing out of tune / Nina Hoechtl and Julia Wieger -- The international exhibition Kvindeudstilligen XX på Charottenborg in Copenhagen and the idea of feminist art space / Monika Kaiser -- Heterotopian spaces of feminist art practice: the Schule für kreativen Feiminsmus and the Stichting Vrouwen in de Beeldende Kunst / Kathleen Wentrack -- Women's art spaces: two Mediterranean case studies / Katia Almerini -- Portuguese Women Artists at the National Society of Fine Arts: why was this not a feminist exhibition? / Márcia Oliveira -- No groups but friendship. all-women initiatives in Poland at the turn of the 1980s / Agata Jakubowska -- 'And -- I have not taken him'. the Erfurt Women Artists' Group / Susanne Altmann.