Art Without History - Filipa Lowndes Vicente

Art Without History

FEMALE INVISIBILITY IN ART HISTORY This book reflects on how art history has studied female artistic practice, particularly in Europe, between the 16th and 20th centuries. In this sense, it is also a history of art history, a history of how art produced by women was, for so long, ignored and devalued — an art without history. And how, in recent decades, feminist approaches have paved the way for there to finally be an art with history. "Writing about the past has always been done from the present, from different presents, because it is done by human beings who observe the past from their individual and social positions, and in a specific space and time.

Eyes seek and see what they are prepared to see. It is in the present that what was previously unknown or ignored is found. And it is in the present that historical themes and figures are analyzed that, in the past, were not considered relevant or worthy of being historicized." Filipa Lowndes Vicente

Work details

• Author: Filipa Lowndes Vicente
• Publisher: Tinta-da-china
• Category: History of Art
• Number of pages: 376
• Cover: Paperback