Turning the Mirror: Gendered Art Histories of Ibero-America and the Iberian Peninsula - Hardcover

by Amrei Buchholz (Editor), Alicia Fuentes Vega (Editor), Julia Kloss-Weber (Editor)

(English, Spanish)

This volume investigates the positions of women artists, their institutional frameworks, and the role of other female actors in the art world in Ibero-America and on the Iberian Peninsula from the 19^th to the late 20^th century, focusing especially on the interweaving of post-/decolonial and feminist approaches. Although women artists could not simply act outside existing power systems, they could mirror them in their works - and thereby challenge them.

The overlapping of different regimes of subalternity led to specific strategies of self-empowerment, such as the formation of networks. What role does the fact play that both the Iberian Peninsula and the Ibero-American countries were perceived as a cultural "periphery", although they were simultaneously divided by the colonial wound?

• Intersectional perspective
• Combination of post-/decolonial and feminist approaches
• Transnational network of female researchers

Author Biography

Amrei Buchholz, head of the Architectural Archives at the Academy of Arts, Berlin; Alicia Fuentes Vega, assistant professor in art history at Complutense University of Madrid; Julia Kloss-Weber, professor in art history focusing on the early modern period, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg.