Feminism and Art in Postwar Italy
The Legacy of Carla Lonzi
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6572505 |
|---|---|
| Editors | Francesco Ventrella (0000-0001-6468-4446), Giovanna Zapperi |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 304 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Feminism and Art in Postwar Italy (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5040/9781350187153 |
| OpenAlex | W2789114073 |
| ISBN | 9781784537326, 9781350187153 |
| Open Library | OL28633641M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
A renowned art critic of the 1960s, Carla Lonzi abandoned the art world in 1970 to found Rivolta Femminile, a pioneering feminist collective in Italy. Rather than separating the art world luminary from the activist, however, this book looks at the two together. It demonstrates that even as Lonzi refused art, she articulated how feminist spaces and communities drew strength from creativity. The authors document the artistic and feminist circles of postwar Italy, a time characterised both by radical protest and avant-garde aesthetics, using primary and archival sources never before translated into English. They map Lonzi's deep connections to the influential Italian Arte Povera movement, and explore her complicated relationship with female artists of the time, such as Carla Accardi and Suzanne Santoro. Carla Lonzi's written work and activism represents a crucial, but previously overlooked, feminist intervention in traditional art history from beyond the Anglo-American canon. This book is a timely and urgent addition to our understanding of radical politics, separatist feminism and art criticism in the post-war period
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Art world · Creativity · Criticism · Feminism · Feminist movement · Italian · Literature · Performance art · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Visual arts · Art, Politics, and Modernism · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Art, italian · Feminism and art · History · Theory of art
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |