Women Artists in Interwar France

Framing Femininities
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-27546-1
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 358 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Women Artists in Interwar France: Framing Femininities illuminates the importance of the Société des Femmes Artists Modernes, more commonly known as FAM, and returns this group to its proper place in the history of modern art. In particular, this volume explores how FAM and its most famous members”Suzanne Valadon, Marie Laurencin, and Tamara de Lempicka”brought a new approach to the most prominent themes of female embodiment: the self-portrait, motherhood, and the female nude. These women reimagined art's conventions and changed the direction of both art history and the politics of their contemporary art world. FAM has been excluded from histories of modern art despite its prominence during the interwar years. Paula Birnbaum's study redresses this omission, contextualizing the group's legacy in light of the conservative politics of 1930s France. The group's artistic response to the reactionary views and images of women at the time is shown to be a key element in the narrative of modernist formalism. Although many FAM works are missing”one reason for the lack of attention paid to their efforts”Birnbaum's extensive research, through archives, press clippings, and first-hand interviews with artists' families, reclaims FAM as an important chapter in the history of art from the interwar years.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Birnbaum, PaulaJ.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Preface; Framing femininities; FAM: modern women artists; Modern madonnas; Masquerade; Self-effacement; Negotiating the nude; Painting the perverse; Conclusion: what became of the FAM?; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Paula J. Birnbaum is Associate Professor and Program Director of Art History and Arts Management at the University of San Francisco, USA.