What's in a line? : gender and modernity

Author

Fer, Briony

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Oxford art journal. 1990, Num. 1, Vol. 13, 77-88, 11 ill.

ISSN

0142-6540

Abstract (en)

Focuses on two paintings of 1921 by Ljubov Popova, her Constructivist Composition (Roald Dahl collection) and Spatial Force Construction (George Costakis collection). Attempts to find a relevant way of talking in terms of gender about work as intractable as geometric abstraction. Looks at gender as an effect of representation. Sees the role of gender as metaphor as crucial to what we understand "modernity" to mean, and to what it meant in 1920s Russia.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945 -- Pictorial arts -- Painting and drawing
• Popova, Ljubov Sergeevna, 1889-1924
• Painting
• Sex
• Soviet Union
• Constructivism
• Modernity
• Geometric abstraction
• Dahl, Roald, 1916-1990
• Society

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945 -- Peinture et arts graphiques -- Peinture et dessin
• Peinture
• Sexe
• Union soviétique
• Constructivisme
• Modernité
• Abstraction géométrique
• Dahl, Roald, 1916-1990
• Société

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19920101-00415331

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