Another Measure
Photography and Feminist Art in Italy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12910363 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Raffaella Perna (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 107-128 |
| Publication date | 2019-11-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Photography and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1751-4517 • E-ISSN: 1751-4525 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17514517.2019.1684131 |
| OpenAlex | W2990577460 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
This article analyses from a historical perspective the relationships between art, photography, and feminism in the Italian cultural context of the 1970s, in order to shed light on a chapter of Italian historiography that has been explored only marginally. During this decade, photographic practice and feminist thought formed a close connection: many artists who were active in awareness-raising groups or embraced feminist theories chose photography as their expressive means both for its ability to grasp issues relating to subjectivity and the body, and as a tool to demystify the stereotypes linked to the gender difference widespread in Western visual culture. Photography became the privileged means adopted by these artists to criticize the symbolic order of the dominant language and its masculine inflection. In a historical moment in which women struggled to overturn the canons of patriarchal culture, photography, with its specific indexical nature and its relationship of adherence to external reality, also allowed these artists to construct a radical social criticism of the way images were used to portray femininity, to challenge the centuries-old invisibility of women’s experiences, and to deconstruct the mechanisms of fetishization and eroticization characterizing the representations of the female body
Aesthetics · Art · Context (archaeology · Criticism · Epistemology · Femininity · Feminism · Historiography · Indexicality · Invisibility · Literature · Photography · Sociology · Subjectivity · Visual arts · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |