In Italy in the 1960s and 1970s, Carla Lonzi and Anne Marie Sauzeau Boetti, both engaged in the feminist movement, proposed thinking about art through dialogue between artists and generations of artists, beyond established aesthetic categories and groups. They challenged the verticality of genealogies in art history, which were organized in a succession of artistic movements and great artists, in a conception that left aside the ideology of the masterpiece and the creative genius. Drawing on examples from the Italian context, this lecture offers a reflection on the epistemic and political stakes of an art writing based on relationship, dialogue, and listening.
In Italy in the 1960s and 1970s, Carla Lonzi and Anne Marie Sauzeau Boetti, both engaged in the feminist movement, proposed thinking about art through dialogue between artists and generations of artists, beyond established aesthetic categories and groups. They challenged the verticality of genealogies in art history, which were organized in a succession of artistic movements and great artists, in a conception that left aside the ideology of the masterpiece and the creative genius. Drawing on examples from the Italian context, this lecture offers a reflection on the epistemic and political stakes of an art writing based on relationship, dialogue, and listening.
