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Between Poiesis and Praxis: Women and Art

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Françoise Collin
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Abstract

If we think of artistic creation as a basic dimension of humanity we need to question the absence of female artists in history. We should also look at their gradual emergence in the late 20th century, an emergence that coincides with the feminist movement and a change in the conception of art itself, revealed chiefly by Duchamp.

But does art by women have some specificity? Without giving a definite answer as far as subject matter is concerned, we note that the conditions suited to both history and the history of art may affect their creation but without specifying it ontologically. If, moreover, some women artists define their work as feminist, it is through an act that combines artistic and political transgression. The exhibition currently arranged by the Georges Pompidou Centre, elles@beaubourg, provides new resources for these complex questions.

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Diogenes , Volume 57 , Issue 1 , February 2010 , pp. 83 - 92
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Copyright © ICPHS 2010

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