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Art tends to reflect the social currents of its times; the late 19th and early 20th centuries saw a big conflict with respect to women’s equality, women’s rights, women’s suffrage, etc., so it would be natural to see that reflected in art history as well as art itself.
If you are interested in reading (or just looking through) the book, a PDF is at this link:
https://archive.org/details/womenpaintersofw00sparWhat’s interesting to me though is how quite notable artists get erased from the canon because they don’t fit whatever stereotype art historians expect artists to fit. Women are probably the biggest casualties of this – for example, I remember well how little attention was paid to Mary Cassatt back when I was in my teens (a long time ago), though I always loved her work.
Julie Johnson wrote an interesting book The Memory Factory [Amazon.ca] about the women artists of the Vienna Secession and looks into how, and why, they were erased. Personally, I had no idea about them, though Secession art is some of my favourite. (Now I can count Teresa Ries among them
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Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known - Oscar Wilde
The primary palette: Attention, observation, memory, imagination, integration, executionAside from the major movements, I only knew of a few of the lesser well known ones, mostly from the 19th century – like the Incoherents, or Biedermeier – and I guess, like a lot of other things, I tend to see them as another example of art reflecting the wider issues in society.
Social movements I think pretty much peaked in the late 19th and first-half 20th centuries, arising out of issues like urbanization, new science and technology, and the rise of mass society.
Anyway, in response to your post, I turned to Wikipedia. Seems there were quite a lot more than I originally reckoned for!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_movementCheers;
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I suppose I have to do this too (my blog, & current work). My Visual Arts Nova Scotia page.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known - Oscar Wilde
The primary palette: Attention, observation, memory, imagination, integration, executionKaty – please note first I said “peaked”, not “were limited to”. Social movements have existed pretty much wherever you’ve had established societies.
But in a very general way, I think of social movements as those aimed at effecting fundamental changes in the individual’s relations with society, while for example political movements have specific political goals as a primary objective. Hence the ERA and anti-war movements I would consider mostly political; the Civil Rights Movement as more social than simply political; the Harlem Renaissance I would consider far more social than political. Another interesting example might be the evolution of the labour movement. If you go back to the 19thC and early 20thC, you’ll find labour organizations involved in all aspects of workers’ conditions – aside for fighting for fairer employment practice, they were very active in workers’ education, living conditions, socialization, etc. I first learned about that as a young man through some elderly friends who had been Wobblies (IWW) in their own youth; at the same time my older brother was working for Jimmy Hoffa’s Teamsters. Quite a difference!Of course though here’s lots of grey areas and overlaps; I don’t think there’s much sense in trying to argue for hard boundaries in these things.
bvanevery – I don’t have any issues in general with Postmodernism in general, maybe because it seems to be a pretty mushy concept to start with
But in genenral, I’m quite happy to do away with any overarching absolutes, especially in art. But it’s not something I usually think about; my favourite bit of aesthetic thought was published in 1899 (Hermann Bahr, Die Falsche Secession).Cheers;
ChrisC&C of all sorts always welcome! (I don't mind rude or harsh criticism.)
I suppose I have to do this too (my blog, & current work). My Visual Arts Nova Scotia page.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known - Oscar Wilde
The primary palette: Attention, observation, memory, imagination, integration, execution
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