| Eileen Agar. Claude Cahun. Leonora Carrington. Suzanne Césaire. LiseDeharme. Marcelle Ferry. Léonor Fini. Valentine Hugo. Frida Kahlo. Nelly Kaplan. Mariam van Hirtum. Jacqueline Lamba. Mary Low. Dora Maar. Lee Miller. Nora Mitrani. Joyce Mansour. Meret Oppenheim, Mimi Parent. Valentine Penrose. Kay Sage. Toyen. Remedios Varo. Unica Zürn. Bonna. Emmy Bridgwater. Hannah Höch. Annie Lebrun. Gisèle Prassinos. Alice Rahon. Edith Rimmington. Dorothea Tanning. | Women
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contribution of women to European and international vanguard movements
has often been undermined by historians and critics. Despite their
strong feminist, artistic and ideological commitments women have often
been considered secondary contributors. Yet, as this course will unravel,
women played a major role in the cultural production of modernity.
The diversity and the originality of their production is phenomenal
both when they collaborated with their male counterparts and when they
decided to work independently: they created their own space and opened
a dialogue with the literary, artistic and political circles of our century.
This course explores international vanguard women’s contribution through
the following questions: self-portraits and autobiographies; representation
and performance of identities; political engagement; multicultural
responses to Europe during the Nazi era.
FRE330: graduate course taught in English (5:30PM to 8:00PM, Tuesdays). Readings are in English; readings for individual research projects may be done in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Bulgarian or any other language depending on artists selected and on individual reading proficiency. A preliminary reading list will be available in early June. Contact instructor if you wish to start compiling research material for your individual project. COURSE WORK: weekly reading, slides, films and discussion. Individual research project; collaboration on the creation of the first interactive website for international vanguard women. Participants will have the opportunity to interact with scholars and artists in the field through distance learning. Contact: Martine Antle, Romance Languages and Literatures Department. CB#3170. Site maintained by Florence Carayon  and
Bernard Luscans
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