Research, Mediation and Curation with a gender perspective
Iris van Herpen is a Dutch fashion designer. She is famous for the fusion of technology with haute couture. Her work has been included in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, as well as in the Palais de Tokyo de Paris. Collection:… Continue reading Who is Iris van Herpen?
Eva Hesse was one of the icons of American art in the 1960s and her work is still considered as a major influence on the subsequent generations of artists. As a sculptor, she is known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fibreglass, and plastic. She is among the artists who ushered in… Continue reading Who was Eva Hesse?
The Bauhaus became famous as a progressive academic institution, since it declared equality between genders by accepting both female and male students into its programs during a time when women were not allowed to study in formal art academies. Some of the male pioneers of modern art, such as Josef Albers, László Moholy-Nagy, and Paul… Continue reading The Women of the Bauhaus
L’Académie Julian was a private art school for painting and sculpture founded by Rodolphe Julian, who was a painter and a teacher, in 1867 in Paris, it was active from 1868 through 1968. L’Académie remained famous not only for the number and quality of the artists who attended in the early 20th century, which was… Continue reading What was L’Académie Julian?
The Birth Project is one of the best-known works by Judy Chicago. It consists of more than 80 exhibitions units designed by Chicago and executed under her supervision by several skilled needleworkers from all around the world. The pieces range in size from very small petit point works to a twenty-foot-long crochet work and are… Continue reading The Birth Project by Judy Chicago
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