Radical!: Women Artists and Modernisms 1910–1950 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3753305421 ISBN 13: 9783753305424

Publisher: Walther & Franz König, 2024

Synopsis

A groundbreaking catalogue for the exhibition co-organised by Museum Arnhem, Saarlandmuseum and the Belvedere, Vienna.

Radical! Women Artists and Modernisms 1910 –1950 questions the concept of modern art as a linear development primarily driven by men. Instead, it brings artists from a wide range of backgrounds into a dialogue and thus opens up new perspectives on the diversity and crossborder dimension of modernism. The works featured here can be considered as not only bearing witness to rapidly advancing industrialisation, urbanisation and technological development but also reflecting the complexity and contradictions that came with emancipation and evolving gender roles. Regardless of their artistic expression or origin, these artists were united by the search for a new visual vocabulary in order to understand the rapidly changing world and respond to the pressing questions of their time. Their works became an act of rebellion against patriarchy, capitalism, fascism and colonialism.

Featured artists include Gertrud Arndt, Louise Bourgeois, Claude Cahun, Benedetta Cappa, Elizabeth Catlett, Sonia Delaunay, Maya Deren, Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, Alexandra Exter, Leonor Fini, Trude Fleischmann, Erika Giovanna-Klien, Natalia Goncharova, Hannah Höch, Käthe Kollwitz, Lotte Laserstein, Tamara de Lempicka, Alice Lex- Nerlinger, Jeanne Mammen, Marlow Moss, Hanna Nagel, Alice Neel, Anton Prinner, Gazbia Sirry, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Dorothea Tanning, Charley Toorop, Toyen, Madiha Umar and Fahr-El-Nissa Zeid.

About this title

About the Author

Stephanie Auer is Assistant Curator at the Belvedere, Vienna.

Andrea Jahn is Director of the Saarlandmuseum.

Saskia Bak is Director of the Museum Arnhem.

From the Back Cover

The catalogue examine the relationship between gender, art and Modernism. It will focus on the question of what kinds of stylistic and visual imagery were developed by women artists in response to the social change, political upheaval and technical innovations of the first half of the last century.

70 female artists from 22 countries - RADIKAL! challenges the concept of modern art as a straightforward, mainly male-driven development. Instead, the exhibition brings together female artists artists from d

Edition details

• Publisher: Walther & Franz König
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3753305421
• ISBN 13: 9783753305424
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 262
• Editor: Bak Saskia, Auer Stephanie, Elvers-Švamberk Kathrin, Jahn Andrea, Rollig Stella, Scheltinga Evelien