Women and War - Wednesdays
Wed, Jan 15
|Zoom
Explore the resilience and creativity of women artists during times of War.
Time & Location
Jan 15, 2025, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EST
Zoom
Guests
About the event
This course will meet for four 90 minute sessions on Wednesdays @ 9:00-10:30 am ET January 15 - February 5*
*For flexibility, the course will also be offered on Wednesdays, from 9:00 to 10:30 AM. Students may choose to attend on either Monday or Wednesday.
Women and War: Resilience, Resistance, and Reinvention
War has long been represented through male-dominated narratives, yet behind these stories lie overlooked accounts of women whose lives, art, and legacies were deeply shaped by conflict. This course highlights how 20th-century women artists, and/or women meaningfully connected to artists, including Roberta González, Tamara de Lempicka, Remedios Varo, Dina Vierny, and Peggy Guggenheim, used creativity as a powerful means of resistance and self-expression. Facing displacement, political persecution, and personal loss, they turned adversity into works of enduring impact, reclaiming agency in a male-centric world.
From the surrealist refuge of Villa Air-Bel in Marseille to the cultural movements of…