Will a Woman Transform the World through Art and Medicine? Alice Walton circa 2005-2031 and beyond
I first saw Alice Walton in May 2012 when she received an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Arkansas. She arrived from her Texas... Read More
A marriage between nature and architecture: feminine biophilic
There is an innate connection between nature and human beings, a relationship lost in the mists of time. Nature is all around us, but our... Read More
Sneaky Peeks: Women in the Bedroom
In the 1960 neorealist masterpiece Rocco e i suoi fratelli (Rocco and his brothers) by filmmaker Luchino Visconti, the domestic environment and its features symbolize... Read More
Unseen Modernities: Re-imagining the Visionary “Real” in the Art of Marianne Stokes, 1900-1910s
The art of the Austrian-born Marianne Stokes (née Preindlsberger; 1855–1927) remains extraordinarily neglected by scholars of modern art and visual culture. As with so many artistic... Read More
Josefa de Ayala D’Obidos’s Physical and Spiritual Realms of Nature: Flora and Fauna Symbolism
The writings of Barbara von Barghahm, Luis de Moura Sobral, and Victor Serrão bring new insight into Obidos’s artistic career and accomplishments, demonstrating her celebrity... Read More
Francesca Alinovi, critique as performance: a source for art history
Francesca Alinovi, in search of the engines of her critical action: performance, dada, comics, graffiti. A short reading of an art historian inserted in the... Read More
Stung by oistros, the divine goad: Female bodies in motion from hysterical dancing to art performance
What relationship may exist between female body movement and that concept of hysteria that has been analyzed in its various aspects in the previous papers?... Read More
Folly and witchcraft in anthropological studies
In the context of the 2022 AIWAC “Women’s Legacies in Natural Studies, Health, and Liberal Arts” focused on the correlation between women and naturalism from... Read More
Fools, witches, and hysterics
Beginning from the title of the chosen section “Hysteria, Folly and Witchcraft”, the author at first intends to suggest a substantial distinction: the one between... Read More
Woman… the transformation of an archetype from witch to fatal Woman, crossing feminism at the beginning of the twentieth century
The archetype is none other than creations of the human unconscious, in which fears, hopes and feelings are expressed that can be shared by all.... Read More