ARTH 338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Romaine Brooks, Natalie Clifford Barney, Cross-Dressing
4 Oct 2016
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The concept in terms of modern art, speci c spaces that have been canonized as modern in art history. In terms of positioning these artists on the margins. Speaks to both self fashioning, and these artists omitted from the historical literature regarding modern art. The avant-garde the reason most women artists have not been written about, or celebrated to the extent that male artists have been. Theoretic framework related to both representation, discourse and material impact of lived experience. Considers race, gender, class but also the intersections between race, gender, class in terms of representations of these lesbian artists in 1920"s paris. The avant-garde artists did not t into the category of avant-garde and vangard art at the time. Innovative: addressing the fact that avant-garde art was framed and perceived as a masculine domain in the late 19th and earth 20th-century. Modernist movements realism, impressionism and post-impressionism were challenging artistic conventions, gave rise to the avant-garde.
