Jennifer Higgie
Crossing #10 - (The Empress)
17. 8. 22, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
The Mirror and the Palette: 500 Years of Women's Self-Portraits
Book presentation by writer Jennifer Higgie
"Until the twentieth century, art history was, in the main, written by white men who tended to write about other white men. The idea that women in the West have always made art was rarely cited as a possibility." Novelist, screenwriter and art critic Jennifer Higgie presents her latest book, The Mirror and the Palette, which focuses on the history of female self-portraiture from the 16th century until 1980. Exploring a cross-section of artists from Europe, the US, India, Australia and New Zealand, and filled with tales of rebellion, adventure, revolution, travel and tragedy, the book is a testament to the fact that there's more than one way to live a life –and more than one way to make art about it.
All events are in English language. Free admission. You can find the live stream on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/W3LYigkGBMc
Information
- Venue
- Galerie Kunst im Traklhaus
- Date
- 17. 8. 22, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Jennifer Higgie
Jennifer Higgie “I have had a 25-year career as a writer: as editor-in-chief of frieze magazine and, more recently, the editor of The Annual,published by the National Gallery of Australia. I am now a full-time writer who has published books, written for numerous magazines, newspapers and artist’s catalogues and hosted a podcast; I also write screenplays. I am passionate about the role of writing in relation to art and will urge students – in whatever direction they want to go – to respond to artworks with an equivalent imaginative flourish.”
Website
Publications
The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2023.
“Containers for My Feelings: Judy Chicago and Abstraction”, essay for the catalogue accompanying the Judy Chicago retrospective at the New Museum, New York, USA, late 2023.
“60 Thoughts on Thin Skin”, essay for the catalogue accompanying the show of 35 painters titled Thin Skin that I have curated for the Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia, July 2023.
“Disobedient Objects: Recent work by Lubna Chowdhary”, essay for a monograph published on the work of Lubna Chowdhary for the Middlesborough Institute of Modern Art, 2023.
The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution and Resistance, 500 Years of Women’s Self-portraits, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021.
