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Women, Art, and Society (World of Art)

Au cœur de l’exposition « CLOSE-UP » actuellement présentée à la Fondation Beyeler figurent neuf femmes artistes : Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Lotte Laserstein, Frida Kahlo, Alice Neel, Marlene Dumas, Cindy Sherman et Elizabeth Peyton. Elles ont ensemble écrit plus d’un siècle d’histoire de l’art. Leur contribution à l’histoire de l’(auto)portrait est particulièrement remarquable. Dans le cadre de cette exposition, vous trouverez à la boutique du musée des monographies choisies portant sur la vie et l’œuvre de ces femmes artistes exceptionnelles, ainsi que des anthologies consacrées au thème du portrait et des femmes dans le monde de l’art.

Whitney Chadwick’s acclaimed study challenges the assumption that great women artists are exceptions to the rule, who ‘transcended’ their sex to produce major works of art. While acknowledging the many women whose contribution to visual culture since the Middle Ages have often been neglected, Chadwick’s survey amounts to much more than an alternative canon of women artists: it re-examines the works themselves and the ways in which they have been perceived as marginal, often in direct reference to gender. In her disussion of feminism and its influence on such a reappraisal, the author also addresses the closely related issues of ethnicity, class and sexuality.