"How did women Surrealists such as Leonora Carrington and Claude Cahun take up the question of female identity in terms of their own aesthetic and intellectual practice? What was the response of women analysts such as Joan Riviere to Freud's psychoanalytic construction of femini…
Italian Renaissance artist Sofonisba Anguissola is well-known for the array of self-portraits she painted during her early career. Through her self-portraits created between 1548 and 1559, Anguissola constructed her identity as a virtuous young noblewoman and skilled artist. The…
Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1755-1842), Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1749-1803), and Angélique Mongez (1775-1855) were three highly successful and influential artists of the latter eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Previously, little attention has been paid, however, to the his…