Women Artists in Twentieth Century China: A Prehistory of the Contemporary

Women Artists in Twentieth Century China: A Prehistory of the Contemporary

Date: 18 March 2015 (Wednesday)
Time: 5:30-7:00pm
Venue: Room 4.34, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus

Spanning the emergence of modern girl’s schools in the early twentieth century, the hey-day of painting societies in the 1930s, the establishment of the Maoist art establishment in the 1950s, and the emergence of new internationally-oriented forms of art in recent decades, this talk will present a selective overview of the work of women painters in the twentieth century in order to explore a few key questions. What have been the primary characteristics of women’s art in the twentieth century? What has been the relationship between feminism and women’s art? What is the historical legacy burdening female artists today? And perhaps most important, why are so few women artists represented in the canon of modern Chinese art?

Speaker: Julida Andrews (Ohio State University)