Women's histories, feminist histories
By: edited by : Mariana Leme, Adriano Pedrosa, Isabella Rjeille
Contributors: Bryan-Wilson, Julia; Schwarcz, Lila Moritz; Leme, Mariana; Rjeille, Isabella
Publisher: MASP, Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, 2019.
Published: 2019
Place of publication: São Paulo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9788531000751
Subjects: Women artists; History; Exhibitions; Feminism and art
Other titles: Histórias das mulheres: artistas até 1900.; Histórias feministas: artistas depois de 2000.; Women's Histories: Artists Until 1900.; Feminist Histories: Artists After 2000.
Description: The exhibition "Women<U+2019>s Histories" presents nearly a hundred works dating from the 1st to the 19th centuries. As the title indicates, this is not a single history, but rather many, chronicled through objects made by women who lived in Northern Africa, the Americas (before and after colonization), Asia, Europe, India and the ancient Ottoman Empire...t is difficult to point to feminist histories before the 19th century, and for this reason we say women<U+2019>s histories. But looking back at women artists of previous eras helps establish feminist lineages. An encounter with these multiple precursors<U+2014>named and unnamed, famous and obscure<U+2014> invites us to rethink traditional art history and its hierarchies that tend to celebrate art as an activity for white European men. -- MASP website [https://masp.org.br/en/exhibitions/histories-of-women].

This exhibition ["Feminist histories: artists after 2000"] features works by 30 artists and collectives that emerged in the 21st century and which work from feminist perspectives, broadening a debate that gained visibility in the visual arts in the period spanning from the 1960s through the 1980s, and which continues to intersect struggles, narratives and knowledges. To address feminist histories in the 21st century means starting from the present moment, in the midst of its construction and urgency. Addressing them at MASP involves a further factor, insofar as they are being told at a museum located in the Global South, with one of the most important collections of European art in this hemisphere, and located on one of the main avenues of the city of São Paulo, the stage for demonstrations and political, social, economic and symbolic struggle. It is a museum designed by architect Lina Bo Bardi, with a suspended structure sheltering a public plaza at ground level, thus resulting in a museum shot through by the public space, with all its contradictions. Therefore, this exhibition considers the possible relations between the museum and the street, between art and activism. There is no single definition of what constitute the feminist strategies and practices in art, but rather a plural understanding of its various currents, considering the many forms of action and the specificities of their contexts <U+2013> this is why the title is feminist histories, in the plural. The category "woman" is also not understood here as singular and universal, as it is intersected by various social, geographic and temporal markers that transform this experience. However, it is possible to affirm that the feminisms are responses to the material precarity, the physical and psychological violations, to the silencings, and the subalternity experienced by diverse women in the course of patriarchal history and past realities that were very often colonial. -- MASP website [https://masp.org.br/en/exhibitions/feminist-histories].
Notes: Published on the occasion of the two simultaneous exhibitions "Histórias das mulheres: artistas até 1900" and "Histórias feministas: artistas depois de 2000" held from August 23 to November 17, 2019 at the MASP.

"Women's Histories: Artists Until 1900" curated by Julia Bryan-Wilson, Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Mariana Leme; "Feminist Histories: Artists After 2000" curated by Isabella Rjeille.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-310).
Table of contents: title: Feminist histories: artists after 2000 / Isabella Rjeille; title: Feminism, textiles and resilience / Julia Bryan-Wilson; title: Mequitta Ahuja; title: Giulia Andreani; title: Santarosa Barreto; title: Yael Bartana; title: Elle de Bernardini; title: Ruth Buchanan; title: Sebastián Calfuqueo; title: Marcela Cantuária; title: Carolina Caycedo; title: Daspu; title: Clara Ianni; title: Ellen Lesperance; title: EvaMarie Lindahl & Ditte Ejlerskov; title: Rosa Luz; title: Ana Mazzei & Regina Parra; title: Virginia de Medeiros; title: Aline Motta; title: Rabbya Naseer & Hurmat Ul Ain; title: Kaj Osteroth & Lydia Hamann; title: Lyz Parayzo; title: Julia Phillips; title: Mónica Restrepo; title: Tabita Rezaire; title: Sallisa Rosa; title: Imri Sandström; title: Katia Sepúlveda; title: Serigrafistas Queer; title: Tuesday Smillie; title: Mônica Ventura; title: Carla Zaccagnini; title: Exhibition Checklist: Feminist histories. Women's histories, feminist histories / Adriano Pedrosa; title: Women's Histories: artists before 1900 / Mariana Leme; title: Encounter with silence: female production in the "Past Times" / Lilia Moritz Schwarcz; title: Andes, Pre-Columbian America; title: Abigail de Andrade; title: Sofonisba Anguissola; title: Marie Constantine Bashkirtseff; title: Mary Beale; title: Marie-Guillemine Benoist; title: Berbere, Egypt; title: Anna Bilinska -Bohdanowicz; title: Rosa Bonheur; title: Olga Boznanska; title: Louise Breslau; title: Henriette Browne; title: Maria Emília de Campos; title: Mary Cassatt; title: Iria Cândida Corrêa; title: Amélia da Silva Costa; title: Victoria Dubourg; title: Chiquita Ferraz; title: Celia Castro del Fierro; title: Clara Filleul; title: Lavinia Fontana; title: Artemisia Gentileschi; title: Paule Gobillard; title: Eva Gonzalès; title: Jeanne Gonzalès; title: Caroline Gower; title: Maria Graham; title: Great Britan; title: Adrienne Grandpierre-Deverzy; title: Catarina van Hemessen; title: Pilar de la Hidalga; title: Maria E. Ibarrola; title: Angelica Kauffmann; title: Leonor de Almeida Portugal de Lorena e Lencastre (Alcipe); title: Judith Leyster; title: Guadalupe Carpio de Mayora; title: Magdalena Mira Mena; title: Cornelia van der Mijn; title: Berthe Morisot; title: Emily Osborn; title: Ottoman Empire; title: Clara Peeters; title: Pennsylvania, United States; title: Punjab, India and present-day Pakistan; title: Rabat, Morocco; title: Juliana Sanromán; title: Santa Catarina, Brazil; title: Thérèse Schwartze; title: Maria Spilsbury; title: Marianne Stokes; title: Suzani, present-day Uzbekistan; title: Francisca Manoela Valadão; title: Maria Verelst; title: Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun; title: Elisabeth Geertruida Wassenbergh; title: Michaelina Wautier; title: Joanna Mary Wells; title: Berthe Worms; title: Yakan, Philippines; title: Exhibition Checklist: Women's histories.