Ελευθερία : αίτημα γένους θηλυκού για την καλλιτεχνική δημιουργία : σελίδες από το ημερολόγιο και τα άρθρα της Marie Bashkirtseff
Part of : Εγνατία ; No.14, 2010, pages 213-232
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Freedom : Subst., fem., imperative for artistic creativity: sample pages from the journal of Marie Bashkirtseff
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Ιστορία της τέχνης
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A visual artist, a traveler, a reader of the world classics in five languages, Marie Bashkirtseff (1858-1884) also kept a journal that, at last count, covered 19000 pages. The article addresses the recurrent theme throughout Marie Bashkirtseff s writings to the effect that women were barred from the French Fine Arts Schools, from applying for the Prix de Rome scholarships, even from taking an unchaperoned walk through the city! The modern researcher can easily understand why her Journal was extensively censured by her mother in the years immediately following her death from tuberculosis.As critical editions of the Journal are becoming more readily available, a very different image of its author is emerging. In addition to the autobiographical entries in her journals, Bashkirtseff is an invaluable social commentator on contemporary events, ranging from the opera and art exhibitions, to her Academie Julian classmates. Bashkirtseff, far from sounding like a late romantic sentimentalist, was so consumed by the condition of the woman artist in her times she contributed essays to La Citoyenne, a women’s socialist review, and corresponded with the best progressive minds of the times, from the Goncourts to Guy de Maupassant.The article ends on the identical concerns for women’s rights in Greece, citing Elizabeth Muggian-Martinengou and Eleni Boukoura-Altamura, both of whom lived in the same «enlightened» century as Marie Bashkirtseff.
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