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Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985 with Dr. Jennie Hirsh

Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985 with Dr. Jennie Hirsh


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This seminar provides an overview of women artists in Central and South America through the lens of the acclaimed exhibition titled Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985.

This conversation explores works by a number of female artists included in the exhibition Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985., which was shown at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the Brooklyn Museum in New York, and the Pinacoteca de São Paulo in Brazil. Touching on artists based in 15 countries, this seminar will explore works that were radical not only for their form but also for their content, embodying feminist and other progressive ideologies that often constituted resistance to authoritarianism and otherwise oppressive regimes and their legacies. Artists to be discussed will include, amongst others, Lygia Clark, Marisol, Ana Mendieta, Marta Minujín, Lygia Pape, Liliana Porter, Regina Silveira, and Cecilia Vicuña.

Led by an expert on modern and contemporary art, Dr. Jennie Hirsh, this interactive seminar will introduce participants to well-known as well as lesser-studied female artists in countries throughout Central and South America as well as Latina artists based in the U.S. Designed to inform curiosity as well as future travels, participants will come away with an increased knowledge of innovative and avant-garde women artists from the 1960s to the present.

Jennie Hirsh (Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College) is a Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She has held postdoctoral fellowships at Princeton and Columbia Universities, as well as pre-doctoral fellowships from the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation, the U.S. Fulbright Commission, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, and the Wolfsonian FIU. Hirsh has authored essays on artists including Giorgio de Chirico, Giorgio Morandi, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Yinka Shonibare, and Regina Silveira, and is co-editor, with Isabelle Wallace, of Contemporary Art and Classical Myth (Ashgate 2011).

This conversation is suitable for all ages.

90 minutes, including a 30 minute Q&A.

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Carol Hayman (Austin, US)
Great Lecture for Modern Art Lovers

It is an introduction to a whole continent of female artists and their avant- guard work, mostly unknown to the rest of the world.

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Carol Hayman (Austin, US)
Great Lecture for Modern Art Lovers

It is an introduction to a whole continent of female artists and their avant- guard work, mostly unknown to the rest of the world.

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Anonymous (Santa Monica, US)
Interesting

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