The great fresco painting of the Italian feminist movements (original) (raw)

2005

Abstract In aiming to map present Italian feminist movements we have to talk of plural “feminisms”, which comprise of not just one feminist movement, but rather a variety of different actions. This dialogue piece intends to enable some of the protagonists of this movement to speak of their bonds with historical feminism, with the movement of movements (MoMo) and about their different feminist practices. Individual women and groups criss-cross each other in our mapping.

Feminism and Art in Postwar Italy. The Legacy of Carla Lonzi

2020

For several years now, the name of Carla Lonzi has been breaking out in art history after a comparatively long-time silence. Art critic, poet and feminist, Lonzi’s work evades easy definitions. Renewed interest in her writing led to two major scholarly publications written in Italian, alongside international responses from contemporary art historians, curators, artist exhibitions, conferences and reading groups. This recent attention to Lonzi has instigated new conversations around radical feminism, contributing to the delinking of an Anglo-American canon frequently associated with major accounts of the feminist movement in art. The developing discourse has also, and this is crucial, started to disseminate a feminist vocabulary that produces dissonances within mainstream strategies of presenting the relationship between art and feminism in the contemporary art world across generations and geographies.

Exploring the Body: Women's Art in Italy's 1970s

Deeply linked to the Catholic culture, the Italian society is often characterized as macho, giving only anecdotal space and visibility to women in the public sphere. Such phenomenon is to be equally found in the art world as proven by the quasi-elimination of women artists from the Italian art history, especially in the contemporary period, in spite of attempts lead from the 1970s by feminist artists and scholars to go against this tendency, after the apparition of strong feminist movements in art internationally. This paper aims at identifying the way(s) the Italian feminist art movement tackled the problematic situation of female art in the Italian society and in its institutions, and at defining its success and aporia.

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