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Women in abstraction / edited by Christine Macel and Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska ; translated from the French by Francisca Garvie and Lorna Dale.

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London ; New York, New York : Thames & Hudson, [2021]
©2021

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342 pages : illustrations (some color); 31 cm

Summary

With a few notable exceptions, the fundamental role that women played in the development of abstract art has long been underestimated, and their work has not received the same critical attention as that of their male counterparts. Now, at last, the tide is turning. The latest historiographical advances illustrated by numerous recent publications, monographs and thematic exhibitions make it possible to reassess the importance of the contribution of women artists to the different currents of abstraction, while at the same time questioning the patterns of the past. Edited by Christine Macel, this catalogue and the exhibition it accompanies highlights the contributions of a hundred or so women artists to abstraction up to the 1980s, with a few unprecedented forays into the 19th century. By focusing on the careers of artists so often unjustly eclipsed, the book questions the established canons and offers an alternative history of abstraction, from the symbolist abstraction of Hilma Af Klint, to the sensual abstraction of Huguette Caland, to the purist non-objective approach of Verena Von Loewensberg. Essays by noted scholars explore the techniques, concerns and legacies of these women, shedding light on their unique experiences and offering keen new reflections on their work and the movement as a whole. French edition 'Elles font l'abstraction', ISBN 9782844268945 (Centre Pompidou). Exhibition: Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (05.05. - 23.08.2021) / Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain (22.10.2021 - 27.02.2022).
With a few notable exceptions, the fundamental role that women played in the development of abstract art has long been underestimated, and their work has not received the same critical attention as that of their male counterparts. Now, at last, the tide is turning. The latest historiographical advances illustrated by numerous recent publications, monographs and thematic exhibitions make it possible to reassess the importance of the contribution of women artists to the different currents of abstraction, while at the same time questioning the patterns of the past.00Edited by Christine Macel, this catalogue and the exhibition it accompanies highlights the contributions of a hundred or so women artists to abstraction up to the 1980s, with a few unprecedented forays into the 19th century. By focusing on the careers of artists so often unjustly eclipsed, the book questions the established canons and offers an alternative history of abstraction, from the symbolist abstraction of Hilma Af Klint, to the sensual abstraction of Huguette Caland, to the purist non-objective approach of Verena Von Loewensberg. Essays by noted scholars explore the techniques, concerns and legacies of these women, shedding light on their unique experiences and offering keen new reflections on their work and the movement as a whole.00French edition 'Elles font l'abstraction', ISBN 9782844268945 (Centre Pompidou).00Exhibition: Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (05.05. - 23.08.2021) / Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain (22 .10.2021 - 27.02.2022).

Uniform Title

Elles font l'abstraction. English.

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Exhibition catalogs.

Note

"This catalogue is published to coincide with the exhibition 'Elles font l'abstraction', at the Centre Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Galerie 1, Paris, from 5 May to 23 August 2021 and at the Guggheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, from 22 October 2021 to 27 February 2022"--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / Serge Lasvignes -- Preface / Bernard Blistène -- Essays. She makes abstraction / Christine Macel -- Abstraction? Co-creation? / Griselda Pollock -- Women artists and abstract photography / Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska -- Stand up against, right up against / Anne Montfort-Tanguy -- Where was sisterhood? / Abigail Solomon-Godeau -- Works. Art, spiritualism, and theosophy / Simon Grant : Georgiana Houghton / Simon Grant ; Alice Essington Nelson / Vivienne Roberts ; Hilma af Klint / Julia Voss ; Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn / Fabio Merlini, Riccardo Bernardini -- The pioneers of abstraction in dance / Adrien Sina : Loïe Fuller / Adrien Sina ; Valentine de Saint-Point / Adrien Sina ; Gret Palucca / Adrien Sina ; Giannina Censi / Adrien Sina ; Sonia Delaunay-Terk / Anne Montfort-Tanguy ; Vanessa Bell / Alexandra Gerstein -- Women in vorticism / Brigid Peppin : Helen Saunders / Brigid Peppin -- Women in the Russuan avant-garde / Elitza Dulguerove : Olga Rozanova / Elitza Dulguerova ; Natalia Goncharova / Elitza Dulguerova ; Alexandra Exter / Elitza Dulguerova ; Liubov Popova / Elitza Dulguerova ; Varvara Stepanova / Elitza Dulguerova ; Sophie Taeuber-Arp / Claude Weil-Seigeot -- Women at the Bauhaus / Ina Belcheva : Gunta Stölzl / Ina Belcheva ; Anni Albers / Ina Belcheva ; Gertrud Arndt / Ina Belcheva ; Benita Koch-Otte / Ina Belcheva ; Elsa Thiemann / Laura Weber ; Florence Henri / Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowsa ; Katarzyna Kobro / Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska ; Gremaine Dulac / Nathalie Ernoult ; Germaine Krull / Damarice Amao -- Microphotography: pattern, decoration, abstraction / Kathrin Schönegg : Laure Albin-Guillot / Julie Jones ; Lotte Jacobi / Julie Jones ; Georgia O'Keeffe / Anna Hiddleston-Galloni ; Barbara Hepworth / Sophie Bowness -- From Cercle et Carré to abstraction-création / Fanny Drugeon : Marlow Moss / Anne Montfort-Tanguy ; Verena Loewensberg / Beat Wismer -- 'Creative photography' at the Texas Woman's University / Julie Jones : Carlotta Corpron / Julie Jones ; Ida Lansky / Julie Jones ; Barbara Maples / Julie Jones ; Mary Ellen Bute / Jonathan Pouthier --
The enduring legacies of Hilla Rebay and Peggy Guggenheim / Lekha Hileman Waitoller -- Finished pictures, polish, candy: women artists of the New York School / Eleanor Nairne : Hedda Sterne / Eleanor Nairne ; Janet Sobel / Eleanor Nairne ; Lee Krasner / Eleanor Nairne ; Eleaine de Kooning / Eleanor Nairne ; Joan Mitchell / Eleanor Nairne ; Helen Frankenthaler / Eleanor Nairne ; Shirley Jaffe / Frédéric Paul ; Wook-Kyung Choi / Sung Won Kim ; Atsuko Tanaka / Laure Chauvelot ; Maria Helena Vieira da Silva / Fanny Drugeon ; Vera Pagava / Nathalie Ernoult ; Marta Pan / Christian Briend ; Alicia Penalba / Ariane Coulondre ; Parvine Curie / Ariane Coulondre ; Claire Falkenstein / Laure Chauvelot ; Ruth Asawa / Christine Macel ; Saloua Raouda Choucair / Jessica Gerschultz ; Carmen Herrera / Domitille d'Orgeval ; Fahrelnissa Zeid / Domitille d'Orgeval ; Marcelle Cahn / Christian Briend ; Regina Cassolo Bracchi / Chiari Gatti ; Aurelie Nemours / Fanny Drugeon ; Lygia Clark / Christine Macel ; Lygia Pape / Laure Chauvelot ; Berenice Abbott / Gary Van Zante ; Marta Hoepffner / Laura Weber ; Martha Boto / Michel Gauthier ; Dadamaino / Chiara Gatti ; Běla Kolářová / Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska ; Louise Nevelson / Fanny Drugeon ; Bridget Riley / Anne Montfort-Tanguy ; Carla Accardi / Annalisa Rimmaudo ; Marcia Hafif / Michel Gauthier ; Tess Jaray / Christine Macel ; Ilona Kesurü / Éva Forgács -- Fibre art/Soft art / Jessica Gerschultz : Magdalena Abakanowicz / Jessica Gerschultz ; Jagoda Buić / Jessica Gerschultz ; Aurèlia Muñoz / Lekha Hileman Waitoller ; Lenore Tawney / Jessica Gerschultz ; Sheila Hicks / Jessica Gerschultz -- 'Eccentric abstraction' / Jo Applin : Louise Bourgeois / Jo Applin ; Eva Hesse / Jo Applin ; Rosemarie Castoro / Laure Chauvelot ; Lynda Benglis / Laure Chauvelot ; Judy Chicago / Fabienne Dumont -- Whose voice? Women film-makers and cinema history in the 1970s / Jonathan Pouthier : Marie Menken / Jonathan Pouthier ; Bice Lazzari / Paola Ugolini ; Arpita Singh / Laure Chauvelot ; Judit Reigl / Nathalie Ernoult ; Agnes Martin / Roxane Ilias ; Nasreen Mohamedi / Fanny Drugeon ; Esther Ferrer / Lekha Hileman Waitoller ; Gego / Laure Chauvelot ; Lucinda Childs / Isabelle Danto ; Etel Adnan / Fanny Drugeon ; Helen Khal / Christine Macel ; Virginia Jaramillo / Christine Macel -- Beyond boundaries: Black art in America, 1960-1980 / Lekha Hileman Waitoller : Alma Woodsey Thomas / Laure Chauvelot ; Vera Molnár / Christian Briend ; Elena Asins / Lekha Hileman Waitoller ; Lillian Schwartz / Jonathan Pouthier ; Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian / Rose Issa ; Dóra Maurer / Jonathan Pouthier ; Dorothea Rockburne / Jennifer Winkworth ; Mary Heilmann / Michel Gauthier ; Elizabeth Murray / Michel Gauthier ; Barbara Kasten / Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska ; Howardena Pindell / Lekha Hileman Waitoller -- The abstract concept of 'Woman': Griselda Pollock, Lucy R. Lippard, Linda Nochlin / Elvan Zabunyan : Harmony Hammond / Laure Chauvelot ; Zilia Sánchez / Laure Chauvelot ; Huguette Caland / Christine Macel ; Trisha Brown / Isabelle Danto ; Irene Chou / Joyce Hei-ting Wong ; Apy Art Centre Collective / Nicolas Garnier ; Tania Mouraud / Roxane Ilias ; Jessica Stockholder / Michel Gauthier -- Chronology / Ina Belcheva, Nathalie Ernoult, Christine Macel, and Laure Chauvelot.

Call Number

N6494.A2

ISBN

9780500094372
0500094373

OCLC

1196243745
on1196243745

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries