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The following is excerpted from the article How Canadian women make art history on Kristina Huneault and Janice Anderson's Rethinking Professionalism: Women and Art in Canada, 1850-1970.
For Huneault, who holds a Concordia University Research Chair in Art History, “there is something unsettling about the role that professionalism has played in attempts to reinscribe women into Canadian art history. Because the issue of who and what has been deemed a professional in the art world has typically been decided by those with the highest social standing, an unquestioning acceptance of the division between amateur and professional robs us of opportunities to understand some of the most significant aspects of women’s art production.”
Rethinking Professionalism, which will be launched at Concordia on May 4, looks to address this imbalance by embarking upon a series of detailed narratives about the varied careers of women in the art profession.
Huneault and her colleagues unpack the existences of Canadian female painters, sculptors, art teachers, photographers, architects, designers, educators, curators and gallery directors in order to position them in relation to the standard model of art-world professionalism that emerged in the second half of the 19th century and that, to a large extent, continues to dominate scholarship on women’s art history today.
Rethinking Professionalism book launch
May 4th, 4:30 pm
Concordia University, room EV3.741
To learn more about Rethinking Professionalism or to order online, click here.
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