'To Suffragettes. A Word of Advice…’. Blast, gender and ‘Art under Attack’
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Resumo: | “Art under Attack” is the title of an exhibition that took place at Tate Britain in London (Oct. 2013- Jan. 2014). In this paper I will concentrate on an exemplary case of such an iconoclastic attack, which was indexed in this exhibition as political – I am referring to the attack of the suffragette Mary Richardson to Velázquez’s Rokeby Venus, in March 1914. My argument is that militant Suffragettes were in fact the first Guerilla Girls of the 20th century, largely anticipating the latter performative and anti-establishment gesture in the Museum and denouncing the institutional space of art as deeply gendered and discriminatory, and, moreover, reclaiming it as a public space of political citizenship, democratic intervention and anti-iconoclastic debate. This will be discussed in the context of and in a dialogue with the Vorticist aesthetics and the outbreak of World War I. In fact Blast 1, the shocking bright pink Vorticist magazine was published on the 20th June 1914, exactly three months after the Rokeby Venus’ attack, and roughly a month (exactly 33 days), before the first World War was declared through the invasion of Serbia (28 July 2014). |
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'To Suffragettes. A Word of Advice…’. Blast, gender and ‘Art under Attack’SuffragetteGenderAvantgardeArtGuerilla GirlsSufragistaHumanidades::Línguas e Literaturas“Art under Attack” is the title of an exhibition that took place at Tate Britain in London (Oct. 2013- Jan. 2014). In this paper I will concentrate on an exemplary case of such an iconoclastic attack, which was indexed in this exhibition as political – I am referring to the attack of the suffragette Mary Richardson to Velázquez’s Rokeby Venus, in March 1914. My argument is that militant Suffragettes were in fact the first Guerilla Girls of the 20th century, largely anticipating the latter performative and anti-establishment gesture in the Museum and denouncing the institutional space of art as deeply gendered and discriminatory, and, moreover, reclaiming it as a public space of political citizenship, democratic intervention and anti-iconoclastic debate. This will be discussed in the context of and in a dialogue with the Vorticist aesthetics and the outbreak of World War I. In fact Blast 1, the shocking bright pink Vorticist magazine was published on the 20th June 1914, exactly three months after the Rokeby Venus’ attack, and roughly a month (exactly 33 days), before the first World War was declared through the invasion of Serbia (28 July 2014).“Art under Attack” é o título de uma exposição que teve lugar na Tate Britain em Londres (Out. 2013-Jan. 2014). O foco e ponto de partida do presente artigo é a análise de um caso exemplar de ataque iconoclasta, o qual foi identificado nesta exposição como sendo de índole política – trata-se concretamente do famoso ataque da sufragista Mary Richardson à não menos famosa pintura de Diego Velázquez, A Vénus ao espelho. O meu argumento neste ensaio é que as sufragistas militantes foram de facto as primeiras Guerilla Girls do século XX, antecipando o gesto e a prática performativa e anti-establishment destas; isto é, por um lado denunciando o carácter discriminatório e “genderizado” do museu como espaço “público” da arte e instituição de poder e, por outro lado, reclamando esse mesmo espaço como um local de cidadania, de intervenção democrática e terreno propício ao debate anti-iconoclasta. Em pano de fundo, o espectro da I Guerra Mundial e o gesto de ruptura, mas nem por isso não menos misógino, das primeiras Vanguardas do século XX.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionInstituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida LosaUniversidade do MinhoMacedo, Ana Gabriela20142014-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/1822/47569eng2183-2242info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-07-21T12:29:16ZPortal AgregadorONG |
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'To Suffragettes. A Word of Advice…’. Blast, gender and ‘Art under Attack’ |
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'To Suffragettes. A Word of Advice…’. Blast, gender and ‘Art under Attack’ |
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'To Suffragettes. A Word of Advice…’. Blast, gender and ‘Art under Attack’ Macedo, Ana Gabriela Suffragette Gender Avantgarde Art Guerilla Girls Sufragista Humanidades::Línguas e Literaturas |
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'To Suffragettes. A Word of Advice…’. Blast, gender and ‘Art under Attack’ |
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Macedo, Ana Gabriela |
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Macedo, Ana Gabriela |
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Universidade do Minho |
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Macedo, Ana Gabriela |
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Suffragette Gender Avantgarde Art Guerilla Girls Sufragista Humanidades::Línguas e Literaturas |
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Suffragette Gender Avantgarde Art Guerilla Girls Sufragista Humanidades::Línguas e Literaturas |
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“Art under Attack” is the title of an exhibition that took place at Tate Britain in London (Oct. 2013- Jan. 2014). In this paper I will concentrate on an exemplary case of such an iconoclastic attack, which was indexed in this exhibition as political – I am referring to the attack of the suffragette Mary Richardson to Velázquez’s Rokeby Venus, in March 1914. My argument is that militant Suffragettes were in fact the first Guerilla Girls of the 20th century, largely anticipating the latter performative and anti-establishment gesture in the Museum and denouncing the institutional space of art as deeply gendered and discriminatory, and, moreover, reclaiming it as a public space of political citizenship, democratic intervention and anti-iconoclastic debate. This will be discussed in the context of and in a dialogue with the Vorticist aesthetics and the outbreak of World War I. In fact Blast 1, the shocking bright pink Vorticist magazine was published on the 20th June 1914, exactly three months after the Rokeby Venus’ attack, and roughly a month (exactly 33 days), before the first World War was declared through the invasion of Serbia (28 July 2014). |
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