A group to discuss Women in the Arts.
Olivia Louvel deposited The Sculpted Voice: an exploration of voice in sound art in the group
Women in the Arts on Humanities Commons 11 months agoThe author is examining the interplay between voice and sculpture, within the field of sound art. The term ‘sculpture’ has been appropriated by many artists to define their work with the voice. Exploring the sculpted voice, three main categories are here identified: the plastic dimension of voice as a sculptable material, the sculptural…[Read more]
Randye Jones deposited Appendix 8 – Art Songs by African American Composers in Musical Anthologies in the group
Women in the Arts on Humanities Commons 11 months, 2 weeks agoAvailability of vocal music scores compilations containing art songs by African American composers. Supplemental content accompanying the book, So You Want to Sing Spirituals.
Swati Arora deposited Be a Little Careful: Women, Violence and Performance in India in the group
Women in the Arts on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months agoThe essay analyzes a contemporary Indian feminist performance, Thoda Dhyaan Se (A Little Carefully, 2013), by framing it in the spatial ecosystem of the city of Delhi and explores its engagement with the feminist movement and the national imaginary of India. It examines the workings of the cultural economy of the city to discuss the effect of its…[Read more]
Anne Swartz deposited Review: Junctures in Women’s Leadership: The Arts By Judith K. Brodsky and Ferris Olin in the group
Women in the Arts on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months agoThis review examines Judith K. Brodsky and Ferris Olin’s book Junctures in Women’s Leadership: The Arts, published by Rutgers University Press in 2018.
Christina Spiker deposited Nostalgic Femininity / From Flowers to Warriors: Japanese Woodblock Prints in the St. Catherine University Archives & Special Collections in the group
Women in the Arts on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months agoThe prints featured in this exhibition are all products of the Meiji period (1868–1912), a time of massive cultural and institutional transformation in Japanese culture. The era is characterized by rapid westernization brought about after the opening of Japanese ports in 1854 and the subsequent restoration of the Meiji Emperor in 1868. The p…[Read more]
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Anne Swartz deposited Karen Finley in the group
Women in the Arts on Humanities Commons 1 year, 6 months agoThis article is an encyclopedia entry in the Grove Encyclopedia of American Art.
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Anne Swartz deposited Louise Fishman in the group
Women in the Arts on Humanities Commons 1 year, 6 months agoThis article is an encyclopedia entry in the Grove Encyclopedia of American Art.
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Anne Swartz deposited Louise Nevelson in the group
Women in the Arts on Humanities Commons 1 year, 6 months agoThis article is an encyclopedia entry in the Grove Encyclopedia of American Art.
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Anne Swartz deposited Lucinda Childs in the group
Women in the Arts on Humanities Commons 1 year, 6 months agoThis article is an encyclopedia entry in the Grove Encyclopedia of American Art.
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Anne Swartz deposited Martha Wilson in the group
Women in the Arts on Humanities Commons 1 year, 6 months agoThis article is an encyclopedia entry in the Grove Encyclopedia of American Art.
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Anne Swartz deposited “Epilogue: The Feminist Art Program” in the group
Women in the Arts on Humanities Commons 1 year, 6 months agoA short discussion of The Feminist Art Project’s inception.
Regina Palm deposited All American Girls: Women Pin-Up Artists of the First Half of the Twentieth Century in the group
Women in the Arts on Humanities Commons 1 year, 10 months agoWhile male illustrators including Alberto Vargas (1896–1982), George Petty (1894–1975), and Gil Elvgren (1914–1980) are synonymous with the field of early-twentieth-century pin-up art, there were in fact several women who also succeeded in the genre. Pearl Frush (1907–1986), Zoë Mozert (1907–1993), and Joyce Ballantyne (1918–2006) each establi…[Read more]
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Anne Swartz deposited Tracks: Allyson Mitchell, Radical Craft in the group
Women in the Arts on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoThis article is a brief interview with the important emerging Canadian lesbian feminist artist Allyson Mitchell.
Danielle Fosler-Lussier started the topic Women in Music– Historiography in the discussion
Women in the Arts on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoI’m prepping a new graduate seminar for autumn on the historiography of women in American music, broadly construed. We will use local and online primary source collections, but I also want to make sure we get into key readings in the field, both as examples of excellent history and a variety of different methods/approaches. Would anyone like to…[Read more]
SAADIA N. LAWTON started the topic Diversity Topic: Tired of Standing Up! in the discussion
Women in the Arts on Humanities Commons 3 years agoOk, so I know I said I would not start the discussion until Tuesday but I just came across this article in the Arts and culture section of the NYT about new work from the artist Kara Walker and I just could not resist. Please feel free to read and respond at your leisure. I will definitely post a few (I hope) thought provoking comments by or…[Read more]
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