GENDER AND VISUAL ARTS IN ŠUMADIJA REGION
GENDER AND VISUAL ARTS IN ŠUMADIJA REGION

Author(s): Snežana Grujić, Jelena Petrović-Desnica
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Visual Arts, Sociology, Gender history
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: feminist aesthetics; gender sensitivity; patriarchal art norms; Šumadija female artists; visual arts and identity
Summary/Abstract: Given that the first female artists exhibition of the 20th century was not held before 1976, which was retrospection of female creation process in the last 400 years in the West, that Serbia did not have her first female artist (Katarina Ivanović) before the 19th century, and that the number of females who attend art and applied art academies has only recently increased, the need to ask gender-related and gender identity questions has arisen in this area as well. Feminist art appeared in the 70s, i.e. 80s of the 20th century, within the so-called radical and conceptual art. Nowadays among Serbian female artists there are those whose creation process may be categorised under feminist art. By adopting the National Strategy for the Improvement of Women’s Position and Enhancement of Gender Equality, the areas in which this strategic activity is to be implemented were defined in 2009.

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