Now we have seen. Women and Art in 1970s Italy

The project and event title, drawn from a phrase in the Manifesto di Rivolta Femminile (1970) – “we have been looking for 4000 years: now we have seen!” –, investigates the rising awareness of women artists and their need for a change of pace, as declared through the visual verbs “to look” and “to see”, which represent a shift from passive to active voice and agency. The topic of female emancipation in the 1970s is here addressed in its privileged connection to the visual arts through the enunciation of several macro-topics leading to a critical and historical analysis of the tools and paradigms of emancipation itself.

Speakers

Silvia Bottinelli, Senior Lecturer and Chair of the Visual and Material Studies Department at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University, Boston
Maria Bremer, postdoctoral researcher at the Ruhr-Universität, Bochum
Lara Conte, associate professor of Contemporary Art History at Roma Tre University
Giorgia Gastaldon, assistant professor in Contemporary Art History at the University of Insubria (Varese-Como)
Raffaella Perna, assistant professor of Contemporary Art History at the University of Roma La Sapienza

Project supported by the Italian Council (2022), Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity, Italian Ministry of Culture.

Scientific Organization: Giorgia Gastaldon, Dipartimento di Scienze Umane e dell'Innovazione per il Territorio, Università degli studi dell’Insubria, Varese-Como (IT)