5-Apr-2021 | art, feminism, graphic design, herstory, history, technology
We’re continuing our series where we share what the club likes.Here’s a first selection of women and their works in the fields of art, film, literature, science, etc. — Part 1. Susan Kare (b. 1954)Designer of Macintosh’s system and application icons in the...
19-Jan-2021 | art, history
Aby Moritz Warburg (June 13, 1866 – October 26, 1929) was a german art historian and cultural theorist, founder of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek in Hamburg which was later moved to the Warburg Institute in London.At the heart of his research was the legacy of...
2-Oct-2020 | art, female artists, female portraits, herstory
Sonia Boyce (born 1962)In the female artists series this week we take a look at two earlier pieces by Sonia Boyce, a British Afro-Caribbean artist.She will be representing the UK at the Venice Biennale in 2022 and the first black woman to do so.Sonia Dawn Boyce’s work...
7-Sep-2020 | art, female portraits, herstory
Every week a female portraitWe continue with our series, part five: Self Portrait, 1939 by Pan Yuliang.Pan Yuliang 潘玉良 (born on June 14, 1895) was a Chinese painter, renowned as the first woman in China to paint in the Western style. Born in Yangzhou, worked in...
29-Jun-2020 | art, graphic design, history
1- Hiroshima Appeals, Yusaku Kamekura, 19832- Not what I had in mind, Tsunehisa Kimura, 19683- Human Rights-Living Together, Kazumasa Nagai, 1989via: butdoesitfloat.com
11-Jun-2020 | art, feminism
Visual representations are never neutral “The series and book criticize traditional Western cultural aesthetics by raising questions about hidden ideologies in visual images.””Berger asserts that only twenty or thirty nudes in the European oil...