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Women as image and self-image in 20th century art

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• Κωτίδης, Αντώνης

In 20th century art the image of women as subject-matter has undergone a number of radical changes as a result of the shift in the position of women in society. One of the consequences of this shift has been an unprecedented increase in the number of women artists admitted to formal educational institutions. Women have thus established themselves in the position of subject-creator of i- mages; this also marks a new era in the depiction of women by male artists.There are two distinct periods that span the 20th century, roughly before and after the 1960s. These periods are marked by the consequences of these changes in the depiction of women in art and, significantly, they coincide with the modernist and the post-modernist modes of thought and representation.The modernist period (1900-1960)The abandoning of the «feminine subject-matter» stereotypes by women modernist artists; the transformation of the male artist image of women as subject matter from the (masculine) cliches of womenfolk as either maternal or working or siren-types to the depiction of the woman as subject in the era of modernity.Very little study of women ’s art in art history and academic institutions.The post-modernist period (1960-2000)An enormous increase in the study of women ’s art as well as the study of women as subject-matter in art. This is the artistic and academic product of the emergence of feminism in the 60s and 70s.The re-establishment by feminist artists of the «feminine subject-matter» in terms of the self-image of gender.The growth of performance in place of representation—the expansion of a hitherto finite repertoire of form and content by means of the appropriation of real space.

• Arts
• History and Archaeology

• Feminism and art
• Ιστορία

Οι απόψεις και η εικονογράφηση του κειμένου παρουσιάστηκαν στη συζήτηση στρογγυλής τραπέζης με θέμα «Η Γυναίκα στην τέχνη του 20ου αιώνα» που οργάνωσε το Ίδρυμα Βασίλη και Ελίζας Γουλανδρή με την ευκαιρία της έκθεσης Toulouse - Lautrec στην Ανδρο τον Ιούνιο 2001., Περιέχει εικόνες