Women Art Dealers

Creating Markets for Modern Art, 1940-1990
Herausgeber: Chagnon-Burke, Véronique; Toschi, Caterina; Brown, Kathryn

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Produktbeschreibung

Through a range of case studies, this book challenges male-dominant art market history by exploring how female dealers worked to promote international art and acted as key agents in the development of the modern global art market.

Produktdetails

• Contextualizing Art Markets
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 160mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9781350292420
• ISBN-10: 1350292427
• Artikelnr.: 72811689

Autorenporträt

Véronique Chagnon-Burke is an art historian, co-founder of Women Art Dealers Digital Archives, co-chair of The International Art Market Studies Association, section editor for the Art Market Dictionary, and former Director of Christie's Education in New York (2002-2021). Caterina Toschi is Associate Professor of contemporary art history and history of photography at the University for Foreigners of Siena, Italy. She is co-founder of Women Art Dealers Digital Archives and Senzacornice, and Associate Director of the Santa Maddalena Foundation.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Series Editor Preface
Introduction, Women Art Dealers: Creating Markets for Modern Art,
1940-1990, Véronique Chagnon-Burke (WADDA/International Art market Studies
Association, USA)
Prolegomenon, The ideology of the Gaze in Photography: Canons and
Anti-Canons of Women Art Dealers' Portraits (1924-2013), Caterina Toschi
(University for Foreigners of Siena, Italy)
Part One: The Promotion of Modern Art in the Aftermath of World War Two
1. The Girl with the Gallery: Edith Halpert in the Mid-Twentieth Century
New York Art Market, A. Deirdre Robson (University of West London, UK)
2. Simone Kahn Collinet: From Member to Promoter of Surrealism, Alice
Ensabella (University of Grenoble, France)
3. Nelly van Doesburg and Peggy Guggenheim. Their Role in Establishing the
Reputation of Theo van Doesburg and De Stijl, Doris Wintgens (formerly
Museum De Lakenhal, The Netherlands)
4. The Konstsalongen Samlaren of Agnes Widlund in Stockholm, Christina
Brandberg (University of Loughborough, UK)
5. Galerie Gmurzynska in the Cold War Period, Elena Korowin
(Albrecht-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany)
Part Two: The Rise of New Markets
6. Bertha Schaefer: "A Case of Ambidexterity." Bringing Modern Art into
American Homes, Antonella Camarda (University of Sassari, Italy)
7. Gabriella Cardazzo at Galleria del Cavallino in Venice, Lisa Parolo
(University of Udine, Italy)
8. Constructing a Photography Market between New York and Paris: The Role
of the Zabriskie Gallery (1970s-1990s), Isabella Seniuta (University Paris
1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France)
9. Linda Givon, the Goodman Gallery, and the Politics of the Contemporary
Art Market in South Africa, 1966-1990, Federico Freschi & Lara Koseff
(University of Johannesburg, South Africa)
10. Mapping the Impact of Women Art Dealers in Los Angeles: A Few Case
Studies, Pietro Rigolo (Getty Research Institute, USA)
11. "The Boom in Boone:" Mary Boone in SoHo in the Early 1980s, Carlotta
Castellani (Center for Italian Modern Art, USA)
Part Three: Latin Galleries Between Italy and Portugal
12. From Fashion Journalism to Art Dealing: Irene Brin and L'Obelisco
Gallery, Ilaria Schiaffini (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
13. Topazia Alliata, Piero Manzoni and the Coincidence between Idea and
Visual Language. The Case of Riducibili, Rome 1960, Carlotta Sylos Calò
(University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)
14. Mara Coccia, a Gallery Owner in Rome, Francesca Gallo (Sapienza
University of Rome, Italy)
15. Etheline Rosas: a Modern Art Conservator, an Art Dealer, and
Museologist, Sofia Ponte (IADE-Universidade Europeia, Portugal)
16. Dulce D'Agro and Quadrum: A Modern Art Love Story in Lisbon, Adelaide
Duarte (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal)
17. Lia Rumma: Art as Conviviality, Luigia Lonardelli (MAXXI of Rome,
Italy)
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