Feminism and Art in Postwar Italy

Francesco Ventrella is Lecturer in Art History at the University of Sussex, UK. He is the co-editor with Meaghan Clarke of Women and the Culture of Connoisseurship, a special issue of Visual Resources (2017). Giovanna Zapperi is Professor of Contemporary Art History at the University of Tours, France. She is the author of the award-winning study L’artiste est une femme: La modernité de Marcel Duchamp(2012) and of Carla Lonzi: Un’arte della vita (2017).

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List of Contributors
Acknowledgements

Introduction

Against Culture: Feminism and Art in Postwar Italy, F Ventrella (University of Sussex, UK) and G Zapperi (Université de Tours, France)

Art Writing Against Art

1. Carla Lonzi: Encountering American Art, Judith Russi Kirshner (Independent Scholar, USA)
2. Magnetic Encounters: Listening to Carla Lonzi’s Tape Recordings, Francesco Ventrella (University of Sussex, UK)
3. (Post-)Normative Silence, Sabeth Buchman (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria)

Creativity and the Feminist Subject

4. The Making of a Feminist Subject. Autonomy, Authenticity and Withdrawal, Giovanna Zapperi (Université de Tours, France)
5. Turbulence Zone: Diasporic Resonances Across Carla Lonzi’s Archive, Liliana Ellena (European University Institute, Italy)
6. ‘I Thought Art Was For Women’: Interview, Suzanne Santoro (Independent Scholar, Italy)


Art as Relation

7. The End of an Affair: Carla Lonzi and the Politics of Rapporto, Leslie Cozzi (Baltimore Museum of Art, USA)
8. Reimagining the Family Album: Carla Lonzi’s Autoritratto, Teresa Kittler (University of York, UK)
9. The Beato Angelico Cooperative. A Feminist Art Space in Rome, Katia Almerini (Independent Scholar, UK)

Genealogies and Resonances

10. Free Escape, Elisabeth Lebovici (Independent Scholar, France)
11. Feminism and Art ca.1970: Writing [Art] Otherwise, Griselda Pollock (University of Leeds, UK)

Index