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G. Oprescu Institute of Art History

FEMINISM AND CULTURE.

RELEVANCE AND PERSPECTIVES IN ART HISTORY AND CULTURAL ANALYSIS

27 November 2009

The G. Oprescu Institute of Art History hosted aninternational symposium focused on feminist art theoryand cultural analysis. The event brought together arthistorians and theoreticians from Romania and othercultural areas interested in feminist art theories andpractices and cultural analysis. It was the first eventdedicated to this issue in the history of the Institute.

Dismissed as a marginal issue, feminism in art andculture has imposed, contrariwise, as an unprecedentedphenomenon with global extension, with direct, radicalor moderate impact according to the different context ofeach cultural area. Feminist art and theory had agroundbreaking impact and effect in art history from1960s. Feminist art theory has proved to be extremelyresourceful and opened new ways of approaching theartistic phenomenon. The symposium was meant tocreate the possibility of a dialogue among theoreticiansfrom different cultural areas, to establish contacts

between Romanian and foreign curators, critics,professors, theoreticians and artists. Comparingperspectives on feminist issues and discussing ways andmeans to explore art history and culture through arelevant feminist discourse can contribute totransforming the attitude towards feminist art theoryand practice in a natural environment of discussion

among art historians and critics, artists, institutions,media. From approaches on womens contribution to artand culture or the re-evaluation of womensrepresentation in terms of gender stereotypes withinculture and various periods of art history, to actualfeminist art criticism in the current state of feministdiscourse, to approaching theories/histories or marginal

histories of feminist art practices, the symposium hascreated an introduction to the issues of feminist arthistory and a platform for theoretical feminist debate.The different forms of analysis were placed in relation toa variety of feminist theories of gender, politics,experience, social and cultural mores, historicalunderstanding, different methods of feminist artcriticism and discussion of different working practicesand cultural concerns. The symposium constitutes thenatural follow up of Perspective 2008 project, the firstinternational feminist art project in Romania, which

included an exhibition with 13 artists from 11 countriesat Anaid Art Gallery in Bucharest, a lecture at theNational University of Fine Arts held by Monica Mayer(Mexico) and a screening at Anaid Art Gallery with videocollages from FemLink (France/USA).Details at: http://www.perspectiveproject.ro/

Project Director: Olivia Nii


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Introductory speech by Prof. Silviu Angelescu, Director of the Institute of Art HistoryIntroductory speech by Mrs. Olivia Nii, Project Director

First session

Aurora Liiceanu (Romania)Old Stereotypes and Coping with the Change. Women Life Strategies after 1990

Ion Bogdan Lefter (Romania)Romanian Context: Feminine / Feminist Art in Two Epochs (or four?: Communism /Post-Communism, the End of Modernity / the Beginning of Post-Modernity).Mentalities, Projects, Ideologies

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(Romania)Modernity and Post modernity in Contemporary Romanian Feminism

Zuzana Stefkova (Czech Republic)Teaching Difference: Feminist Discourse within Czech Art Education

Ramona Novicov(Romania)Playground: From the Innocent Forest of Elian to the French Garden of Diana Gavrilas

Adriana Oprea (Romania)For and Aga inst a Romanian Feminist Art


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Photo Album


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Ferris Olin


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Olivia Nii, Zuzana Stefkova, Ramona Novicov


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Ion Bogdan Lefter


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Ioana Vlasiu


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Speaking: Enik Magyari-Vincze


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Liliana Alexandrescu and Cline Omer

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