Feminist Histories of Irish Art
A special issue of Arts (ISSN 2076-0752).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 418
Special Issue Editor
Interests: temporality and the remaking of feminist art histories; art practice and embodiment; postconflict trauma and art in Northern Ireland; art practice and geopolitical borders; Irish modernist women artists
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
What might the feminist histories of Irish art look like at the current moment? It has been nearly forty years since the groundbreaking exhibitions of Irish women artists in Dublin (1985): Éimear O’Connor’s (2009) edited collection Irish Women Artists 1800-2009: Familiar but Unknown followed over two decades later. A further reappraisal is thus long overdue. Contemporary women artists have become increasingly visible in Ireland, particularly in the light of the role of feminist art in the successful campaign to repeal the country’s Eighth Amendment on abortion in 2018. However, this focus on current practice in relation to wider feminist politics provides an opportunity to critically re-evaluate Irish women’s art in relation to its historical context and, in particular, the relationships between feminism and the histories of Irish art. This involves not just a process of the retrieval of forgotten or overlooked women artists, but a critical engagement with the gendered canons of Irish art history that excluded them in the first place. This Special Issue of Arts invites papers that will once more expand and regenerate the debates around Irish feminist art histories.
Contributions on the following themes in relation to Irish feminist art histories, in addition to others, are very welcome:
- Feminist historiographies.
- Intergenerational relationships of affinity and influence.
- Northern Irish women artists.
- Intersections of feminist and queer practices in Irish art.
- The gendered body.
- Women, art, and the Irish diaspora.
- Women as innovators in 20th c. art.
- Pre-20th c. art by Irish women.
- Feminist curatorship in Ireland.
- Contemporary feminist art histories in a historical context.
Dr. Fionna Barber
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- feminist historiographies
- intergenerational relationships of affinity and influence
- feminist and queer practices
- Irish art
- women art
- Irish diaspora
- 20th c. art
- pre-20th c. art
- feminist curatorship
- contemporary feminist art histories
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