Academic Sessions: London 1997
Feminising the Framework
Conveners:
Gudrun Schubert (University of Brighton) and Rosemary Betterton (Sheffield Hallam University)
This session will consider how women working in the broad field of design and visual art have engaged with the institutional structures of their time, and how this has affected their working practices. Contributors will explore the relationship between these ideological and institutional frameworks and the experiences and practices of women artists and designers from a range of historical periods including the present. Issues include: adapting to professional codes or setting up alternatives, assumptions about the creative woman, iconography and subject matter, the uses of media or genre, public and private patronage, exhibiting practices and markets, and critical reception.
Gudrun Schubert (University of Brighton) and Rosemary Betterton (Sheffield Hallam University)
This session will consider how women working in the broad field of design and visual art have engaged with the institutional structures of their time, and how this has affected their working practices. Contributors will explore the relationship between these ideological and institutional frameworks and the experiences and practices of women artists and designers from a range of historical periods including the present. Issues include: adapting to professional codes or setting up alternatives, assumptions about the creative woman, iconography and subject matter, the uses of media or genre, public and private patronage, exhibiting practices and markets, and critical reception.
- Claire Doherty (Ikon Gallery, Birmingham): Domestic Disturbances: the Resurgence of the Domestic in Contemporary Art Practice
- Maud Sulter (Altitude Internation Arts Consultancy): Kairos- International Networking and the Mid-Career Woman Artist: a Review of Current Practice
- Carola Hicks (Newnham College Cambridge): Lady Di and the Art of Manipulating the Media
- Liz James (Univerity of Sussex): The Amazing Invisible Woman: Female Patrons in Byzantium
- Jill Seddon (University of Brighton): 'Mentioned, but Denied Significance': Woman Designers and the 'Professionalisation' of Design in the Interwar Period
- Sue Watling (Somerset College of Arts and Technology): Women Artists and the British Pop Art Movement: Horror Statistics in a Discursive Void
- Rosemary Betterton (Sheffield Hallam University): Private and Public Selves: Women, Modernity and Suffrage Culture in Britain and Germany c.1890-1914
- Cheryl Buckley (University of Northumbria): Working-Class Women, Fashion and Home Dressmaking in Britain Between the Wars
- Pen Dalton (University of Birmingham): Art Education and Consumer Identities
- Gillian Perkins (Nene College of HE): 'Is it Art or Craft?' - Contemporary Women Painters' Identity
- Janis Baker (De Montfort University): The Representation of the Hero(ine): The Feminising of the 'Hero'
- Gudrun Schubert (University of Brighton): Fame, Fortune and Public Acclaim of the French Landseer in England: Rosa Bonheur Reconsidered