The Jack of Diamonds Disputes at the Courtauld Institute, London (24 October and 7 November 2014)
Resource type
Book chapter
Creator (person)
Budanova, Natalia
Higgins, Helen
Date published
2015
Abstract
The special issue of International Yearbook of Futurism Studies for 2015 will investigate the role of Futurism in the Å“uvre of a number of Women artists and writers. These include a number of women actively supporting Futurism (e.g. Růžena Zà¡tkovà¡, Edyth von Haynau, Olga Rozanova, Eva Kà¼hn), others periodically involved with the movement (e.g. Valentine de Saint Point, Aleksandra Ekster, Mary Swanzy), others again inspired only by certain aspects of the movement (e.g. Natalia Goncharova, Alice Bailly, Giovanna Klien). Several artists operated on the margins of a Futurist inspired aesthetics, but they felt attracted to Futurism because of its support for women artists or because of its innovatory roles in the social and intellectual spheres. Most of the artists covered in Volume 5 (2015) are far from straightforward cases, but exactly because of this they can offer genuinely new insights into a still largely under-researched domain of twentieth-century art and literature. Guiding questions for these investigations are: How did these women come into contact with Futurist ideas? Was it first-hand knowledge (poems, paintings, manifestos etc) or second-hand knowledge (usually newspaper reports or personal conversions with artists who had been in contact with Futurism)? How did the women respond to the (positive or negative) reports? How did this show up in their Å“uvre? How did it influence their subsequent, often non-Futurist, career?
Book title
International Yearbook of Futurism Studies
Editor
Berghaus, Gà¼nter
Volume
5
Pagination
495-501
Publisher
Walter De Gruyter GMBH
Place of publication
Berlin
ISSN
2192-029X