Feminist Friendships, Collaborations, and Networks in the Visual Arts. Essays in honor of Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard

Hardback, Pages: 240, Size:220 x 280 mm, Illustrations:11 b/w, 75 col., Language: English. ISBN 9781915487315. Summary Since the late twentieth century, a mounting body of studies has demonstrated that women contributed notably to the visual arts of nearly every culture, despite the ubiquity of patriarchal structures. The present volume looks to collaboration as a key factor in women's ability to overcome those systemic obstacles in order to play decisive roles in the visual arts, whether as artists, patrons, art critics, gallerists, or interpreters in the public sphere. Until only recently, collaborations and other collective endeavors have largely been ignored by both the panoptic histories of art and the art markets, both of which are predicated on notions of individual agency and their implied prototype of idealized masculine autonomy. By means of seventeen case studies spanning from the Renaissance to the 1990s and covering several continents, the essays in this volume chronicle an enduring pattern of women artists, critics, and intellectuals pursuing their goals together. In elucidating the importance of the collaborative dynamic model, especially in its feminist iteration, these essays promote a fuller understanding of the visual arts across the globe and throughout the centuries. With contributions by Babette Bohn, Marilyn Dunn, Adelina Modesti, Lara C.W. Blanchard, Catherine Powell-Warren, Mary Sheriff, Melissa Hyde, Carina Reich, Ruth Iskin, Jacqueline Marie Musacchio, Elizabeth Otto, Julie Cole, Jennifer Griffiths, Giorgina Gluzman, Elizabeth Hamilton, Lisa Farrington, and Amy Tobin. This book is dedicated to the prominent feminist art historians Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard, in admiration for their inspiring and influential collaborative publications on feminism and women in the visual arts. TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard Introduction On Feminist Alliances in the Visual Arts Jennifer S. Griffiths and Andrea Pearson Chapter 1 Sisters in Art: Female Sodality in Early Modern Bologna Babette Bohn Chapter 2 Female Networks and Collaboration: Spiritual Philanthropy, Convents, and Art Patronage in Seventeenth-Century Rome Marilyn Dunn Chapter 3 A Female Maecenas: Vittoria della Rovere, Feminist Friendship, Collaboration, and the Arts in Baroque Florence Adelina Modesti Chapter 4 The Banana Garden Poetry Club and Women's Artistic Exchanges: Writing about Paintings and Friendships in Seventeenth-Century China Lara C. W. Blanchard Chapter 5 Illustrating Nature in the Dutch Seventeenth Century: The Collective Power of a Female Community Catherine Powell-Warren Chapter 6 Representations of Female Friendship: Vigée Le Brun's Portrait of Mrs. Chinnery (1803) Mary D. Sheriff Chapter 7 Brought into Friendship: Women, Social Networks, and Amitié in Some Portraits by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard and Gabrielle Capet Melissa Hyde Chapter 8 'My Life Has Been Devoted to Friendship': The Danish Painter Bertha Wegmann and the Feminist Reinvention of the Friendship Image Carina Rech Chapter 9 Mary Cassatt and Louisine Havemeyer's Friendship: A Personal, Professional, and Political Alliance Ruth E. Iskin Chapter 10 An American Dantista and Her Friends Jacqueline Marie Musacchio Chapter 11 ringl + pit, from Their House to Bauhaus: Collaborative Partnership, Modernist Photography, and Queer Visual Forms Elizabeth Otto Chapter 12 Lesbian Collaboration as Subterfuge in the Works of Marcel Moore and Claude Cahun Julie Cole Chapter 13 The Force of Futurist Friendship: R??ena Zátková, Natalia Goncharova, and Benedetta Jennifer S. Griffiths Chapter 14 We Shall Overcome: Women, Art, and Anti-Fascist Networks in Buenos Aires Georgina G. Gluzman Chapter 15 A Friendship Written in the Stars: The Artistic Constellation of Alma Thomas and Delilah Pierce Elizabeth Carmel Hamilton Chapter 16 Black Feminist Art: Negotiating Networks and Identities Lisa Farrington Chapter 17 Heresies' Heresies: Collaboration and Dispute in a Femin.…