Lecture | China Seminar
Women Artists in Twentieth-Century China: A Prehistory of the Contemporary
- Date
- Wednesday 16 October 2024
- Time
- Series
- LIAS China Seminar
- Location
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Lipsius
Cleveringaplaats 1
2311 BD Leiden - Room
- Lipsius 1.48
Abstract
This lecture will reflect on two intersecting themes: the rise of women as artists and as subjects for art, in the context of the evolving status of women in twentieth-century China. Against the backdrop of the nascent modern education for women and the emergence of feminism between 1910 and 1940, the presentation interrogates, in light of contemporary art world patterns and current definitions of feminism, the difficult path of women artists in the second half of the twentieth century.