This is a comprehensive collection of essays about women artists working with abstraction in postwar Rome, from the late 1940s through the 1970s.
This is a comprehensive collection of essays about women artists working with abstraction in postwar Rome, from the late 1940s through the 1970s.
The diverse range of contributors from around the world analyse the individual artistic trajectories of more than fifteen women artists and critics, bringing their work together for the first time in a distinct contribution to the continuous rethinking of abstract art’s narrative in the wake of feminist as well as postcolonial theories. The book takes an international outlook with the women artists covered coming from places such as the US and the UK, Turkey, Iran, and Brazil, and considers how travel framed their work. As the book reveals, Rome’s unique cultural landscape was immensely important to these women, who worked across painting, sculpture, and printmaking, and it had a lasting impact on both the material and formal properties of their practices. As a transnational contact zone and a point of convergence for the exchange of ideas and working methodologies of a global artistic network, it enabled a dialogue between women abstract artists extending across the Mediterranean and beyond.
This book is ideal for researchers and students interested in modern art, postwar women artists, and abstraction.
Introduction PART 1: Material
1. Sandra Blow: Performed Materialism
2.
Abstract Art in Transit: Maria Bonomis Transatlantic Trajectory Between
Brazil and Italy
3. Shaping a New Vision: Behjat Sadr between Iran, Italy and
France
4. Claire Falkenstein in Post-war Rome PART 2: Dialogues
5. An
American Artist in Rome: Adele Plotkin
6. Gencays Italian
Chapter: A Passage
of Becoming
7. Edith Schloss's Early Roman Period: Negotiating Artistic
Agency in a Transatlantic World
8. Marisa Volpi and Women Abstract Painters
at QUI arte contemporanea
9. Carla Accardi, Crossing Over Time and Space PART
3: Form
10. Between Geometry and Breath: Tess Jaray's Transcultural
Abstraction
11. Mira Brtka, Milena ubrakovi, and their Shared Artistic
Lives in 1960s Rome
12. Lauretta Vinciarelli: Artistic Reflections Between
Rome and New York
13. Carmengloria Morales: An Abstraction of Withdrawal
14.
Marcia Hafifs Return to Rome: A Transnational Trajectory Through the 1975
Exhibition at the Galleria dAlessandro Ferranti
Jelena Stojkovi is an art historian and critic based in London and a Senior Lecturer in Critical Theory at the School of Arts, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Daniel Sturgis is a British artist and professor of painting at the University of the Arts London, UK
