Female Artists and the Spanish Pavilion in the International Exhibition in 1937

This article aims to elucidate why the majority of Spanish female artists did not participate in the Spanish Pavilion of the International Exhibition in 1937. Only two of them took part in this event. However, there were a lot of female artists in that period. In fact, some artists had a promising c...

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Autor: Gaitán Salinas, Carmen
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/221579
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/221579
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Spanish Republic
Spanish female artists
Pavilion 1937
Art and feminism
Women artists
Contemporary art
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Sumario:This article aims to elucidate why the majority of Spanish female artists did not participate in the Spanish Pavilion of the International Exhibition in 1937. Only two of them took part in this event. However, there were a lot of female artists in that period. In fact, some artists had a promising career, but it seems that they did not dare to be involved in this exhibition in the Spanish Pavilion. In some cases, the no participation of some female artists could have been a simple coincidence, although it should be pointed out that there could be other reasons related to Spanish society and artists’ lives that determined the limited female intervention in this Pavilion