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Beautiful, flamboyant, daring, provocative and fiercely independent, Niki de Saint Phalle emerged in the 1960s as a powerful and original figure in the highly masculine international arts world centred around Paris. Much of her art deals with the gendered implications of art and visions of femininity, ideas of manliness, in particular in her highly charged series of Shooting Paintings. Using Niki de Saint Phalle’s work as a starting point, we welcome proposals for papers exploring the gendered gestures of art. What is it in an artistic trace that makes a work embody notions of femininity or masculinity? How do these gestures fit into societal power matrices of everyday life between men and women? Papers can be on any epoch of art, although preference will be given to those that address Saint Phalle and her era. Topics could involve:
• Femininity as artistic trace
• The maternal and the material
• Fabrics of masculinities
• Gestures of machismo
• The dynamics of female/male artistic partnerships
The chair will be Catherine Marcangeli, Senior Lecturer in Art History at University of Paris.
Proposals for papers should be 1 side of A4 in length; this is for a 20 minute presentation. The deadline for submissions is 30th January 2008. Please send proposals & requests to attend to:
robert.knifton@tate.org.uk - Rob Knifton, Tate/Miriad AHRC Doctoral Student
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