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Neel’s attention to the sensuous human subject, irrespective but mindful of race, gender, status and sexuality, was rare and undervalued, yet now seems prophetic.
A round up of some fascinating art tomes published this year, with a strong showing on women artists.
Despite her extensive and versatile oeuvre, Blankenhorn has received limited attention from the art world.
Women artists from a non-English-speaking background suffer a triple earnings penalty. But there is no gender pay gap among remote Indigenous artists.
People in our experiments liked art by women – but believed women’s paintings are less attractive for investment.
Family members seeking to control women artists isn’t new. In the 1920s, doctors thought sculptor Camille Claudel could be released from the care of an asylum, but her family refused.
Known for her soft capturing of tonal shifts and poignant moments, painter Clarice Beckett’s legacy was almost lost to time and decay. Now her work is being celebrated in a major exhibition.
The first female student at the famous Makerere University art school, Karuga only began an art career when she retired at 60. She ended up showing internationally.
50 years ago Art News published Linda Nochlin’s essay, Why have there been no great women artists? It would change how we see art and its institutions, and still reverberates today.
Why is the gender pay gap wider in the arts than other fields of employment? We mined the data looking for possible reasons.
At a time when surrealists were objectifying women’s bodies, American artist Dorothea Tanning was looking deeper at the transformative potential of female experience and the unconscious.
Best known as the subject of her husband Richard’s work, Pat Larter was herself a major artist.
Many Renaissance-era masterworks depicted rape and sexual assault as erotic. Beginning in the 1970s, artists worked to redefine rape as a crime of aggression and act of female subjugation.
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard was a supremely skilled artist. But like so many talented women before and since, she suffered from snide allegations that she could not be capable of such brilliance.
Male monks were not the sole producers of books throughout the Middle Ages.
Born into late-16th century Papal Rome, Gentileschi transcended the path of utter obscurity that was the lot of her female peers to become one of the most famous painters of the day.
Dorrit Black, Grace Cossington Smith and Grace Crowley were some of many talented modernist women artists. But only with the advent of second wave feminism in the 1970s was their work properly acknowledged.
They’re silly, but the singer’s statement pants are an important comment on female storytelling.
The average Australian female artist is better educated than her male counterpart but earns significantly less than him, new research shows. And artists’ incomes are declining in real terms.
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Honorary (Senior Fellow) School of Culture and Communication University of Melbourne. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, The University of Melbourne
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Distinguished Professor of Economics, Macquarie University
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Emerita Professor, Art History and Curatorship, University of Adelaide
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Research Project Director at the Department of Economics, Macquarie University
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Lecturer, Macquarie University
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Emeritus professor, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Monash University
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Visiting Researcher in Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
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Professor of Economics, Tasmanian Behavioural Lab, University of Tasmania
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Senior Lecturer in American Studies, University of Hull
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Lecturer in Sound in the Arts, Lancaster University
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Associate Professor of Art History, Curatorship and Museum Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Art History, The University of Melbourne
