This timely book reveals the significant role played by women in the promotion and dissemination of modern and contemporary art to a global audience. It brings together a range of fascinating case studies of women-led galleries in the postwar period, challenging male-dominated histories by analyzing the work of internationally-minded female dealers who worked across continents and helped to develop transnational art networks.
The book is arranged in three parts, covering gallerists, dealers and regional art scenes. Part 1 focuses on the promotion of postwar modern art by women gallerists; Part 2 examines the contributions by women art dealers toward the birth of new markets and media, such as video art and photography; finally, Part 3 analyzes case studies from the southern European art scene, paying fresh attention to several under-researched markets in the region like Italy and Portugal.
Each chapter study provides a historiographic profile of the gallery under discussion and critical analysis is supported with a wide range of visual material, including portraits of the women art dealers, photographs of the exhibitions they managed, and printed documentation like catalogues, invitations, and posters that were often used to support artists on display in experimental ways. It will be vital reading for students of art market studies, as well as gallery and art market professionals.
Through a range of case studies, this book challenges male-dominant art market history by exploring how female dealers worked to promote international art and acted as key agents in the development of the modern global art market.
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Important for starting a conversation on how and why women were dedicated to promoting innovative art and artists ... A strong start to addressing gender imbalance in an emerging field of art history. * The Art Newspaper * At a moment when art worlds are finally addressing gender inequalities, this timely volume highlights the crucial role that women art dealers played in shaping modern art markets. * Olav Velthuis, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands * This insightful book provides us with 17 detailed portraits of daring and innovative women art dealers and modern art pioneers all around the world, crucially filling a gap in art-market history by focusing on female agency and risk-taking. * Julie Verlaine, Professor of Contemporary History, the University of Tours, France * With its 19 thoroughly researched case studies, this fascinating book makes an important contribution to the study of the achievements of women art dealers in the latter half of the 20th century, filling existing gaps in our understanding of the vital role women have played in the art market. * Nadine Oberste-Hetbleck, Director of ZADIK | Central Archive for German and International Art Market Studies, University of Cologne, Germany *
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Through a range of case studies, this book challenges male-dominant art market history by exploring how female dealers worked to promote international art and acted as key agents in the development of the modern global art market.
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Acknowledgements
Series Editor Preface
Introduction, Women Art Dealers: Creating Markets for Modern Art, 19401990,
Véronique Chagnon-Burke (WADDA/International Art market Studies Association,
USA)
Prolegomenon, The ideology of the Gaze in Photography: Canons and Anti-Canons
of Women Art Dealers Portraits (19242013), Caterina Toschi (University for
Foreigners of Siena, Italy)
Part One: The Promotion of Modern Art in the Aftermath of World War Two
1. The Girl with the Gallery: Edith Halpert in the Mid-Twentieth Century
New York Art Market, A. Deirdre Robson (University of West London, UK)
2. Simone Kahn Collinet: From Member to Promoter of Surrealism, Alice
Ensabella (University of Grenoble, France)
3. Nelly van Doesburg and Peggy Guggenheim. Their Role in Establishing
the Reputation of Theo van Doesburg and De Stijl, Doris Wintgens (formerly
Museum De Lakenhal, The Netherlands)
4. The Konstsalongen Samlaren of Agnes Widlund in Stockholm, Christina
Brandberg (University of Loughborough, UK)
5. Galerie Gmurzynska in the Cold War Period, Elena Korowin
(Albrecht-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany)
Part Two: The Rise of New Markets
6. Bertha Schaefer: "A Case of Ambidexterity." Bringing Modern Art into
American Homes, Antonella Camarda (University of Sassari, Italy)
7. Gabriella Cardazzo at Galleria del Cavallino in Venice, Lisa Parolo
(University of Udine, Italy)
8. Constructing a Photography Market between New York and Paris: The
Role of the Zabriskie Gallery (1970s1990s), Isabella Seniuta (University
Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France)
9. Linda Givon, the Goodman Gallery, and the Politics of the
Contemporary Art Market in South Africa, 19661990, Federico Freschi & Lara
Koseff (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)
10. Mapping the Impact of Women Art Dealers in Los Angeles: A Few Case
Studies, Pietro Rigolo (Getty Research Institute, USA)
11. "The Boom in Boone:" Mary Boone in SoHo in the Early 1980s, Carlotta
Castellani (Center for Italian Modern Art, USA)
Part Three: Latin Galleries Between Italy and Portugal
12. From Fashion Journalism to Art Dealing: Irene Brin and L'Obelisco
Gallery, Ilaria Schiaffini (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
13. Topazia Alliata, Piero Manzoni and the Coincidence between Idea and
Visual Language. The Case of Riducibili, Rome 1960, Carlotta Sylos Calò
(University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)
14. Mara Coccia, a Gallery Owner in Rome, Francesca Gallo (Sapienza
University of Rome, Italy)
15. Etheline Rosas: a Modern Art Conservator, an Art Dealer, and
Museologist, Sofia Ponte (IADE-Universidade Europeia, Portugal)
16. Dulce D'Agro and Quadrum: A Modern Art Love Story in Lisbon, Adelaide
Duarte (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal)
17. Lia Rumma: Art as Conviviality, Luigia Lonardelli (MAXXI of Rome,
Italy)
Index
Véronique Chagnon-Burke is an art historian, co-founder of Women Art Dealers Digital Archives, co-chair of The International Art Market Studies Association, section editor for the Art Market Dictionary, and former Director of Christies Education in New York (20022021).
Caterina Toschi is Associate Professor of contemporary art history and history of photography at the University for Foreigners of Siena, Italy. She is co-founder of Women Art Dealers Digital Archives and Senzacornice, and Associate Director of the Santa Maddalena Foundation.
