Ninth International Conference on The Image

Abstract

Since the political, social and visual “image” of this (western) plural (movement/s) has continuously overlooked a worldwide inclusion in the sense of diversity, I am suggesting overarching polyhistorical, polycentric, and “polyvocal” (Griselda Pollock) “comparative feminist art movement studies” to counter this fact. Based on studies about the Vereinigung bildender Künstlerinnen Österreichs, VBKÖ (the Austrian Association of Women Artists founded in 1910 in Vienna), and the Verband bildender Künstlerinnen und Kunsthandwerkerinnen Wiener Frauenkunst (the Viennese Womens Art, 1926-1938/1946-1956) I favour an comparative political and visual approach “For the long revolution!” Like the world famous American Feminist Art Movement of the 1960s and 1970s these two Viennese organizations, however, were part of the revolutionary liberation movement that had emerged in many places and continents since centuries, and which began to form against the exclusion of women artists from the artworld in a self-determined and self-institutionalized way. We aim to present social strategies for change of such missing „image/s“ of Feminist Art Movement/s.