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The [in]visibility of Women in History of Art – Thoughts, Works and Actions

The [in]visibility of Women in History of Art – Thoughts, Works and Actions

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This research intends to obtain detailed, transposable content for a proposal, objectively grounded, for a socio-cultural and aesthetic revisitation of History of Art. For about ten years, I have been identifying ideas, images and works conceived and/or produced by female artists. The approach combines the historical-social Hauserian perspective of Art with models configured from self-identity processes, associating with iconographic and semantic understandings, under the auspices of aesthetics and anthropology. The reflections developed were shaped by delimited problematics, imply the analysis under periodisations, from the Middle Ages and Renaissance until the first decades of the 21st century. Comparativist connections of the content were privileged, where appropriate, proposing approximations, detecting affinities and shaping confrontations. Aggregating concepts are presented; underlying arguments in the emblematic creations, written by artists forgotten by the historiography of art are shown; "commented biographical portraits" of these authors are evoked to understand their contribution, in favour of a western (bi and tridimensional) visual archive.

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External Members
Hugo Monteiro
Escola Superior de Educação do Porto
Emília Ferreira
Instituto de História da Arte
Sandra Leandro
Instituto de História da Arte
Inês Moreira
Instituto de História da Arte
Ana Rito
Centro de Investigação e de Estudos em Belas-Artes (Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa)
António Pedro Pita
Universidade de Coimbra
Partners
Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis - Núcleo de Pintura
Revista Asparkía – Universitat Jaume I (UJI) de Castellón, Espanha