yeovilliteraryfestival

THIS IS A YEOVIL LITERARY FESTIVAL 2022 EVENT
JOHNSON STUDIO

Katy Hessel - History of Art Without Me

Women artists currently make up just 1% of the National Gallery collection in London. This same museum only staged their first major solo exhibition by a historic female artist, Artemisia Gentileschi, in 2020, while 2023 will mark the first time the Royal Academy of Arts has ever hosted a solo exhibition by a woman in their main space (Marina Abramović). In her new book, curator and art historian Katy Hessel challenges the canon as we know it and showcases the female and gender non-conformist artists who are so often excluded from the history books. Hessel shines a spotlight on the glittering paintings of Sofonisba Anguissola of the Renaissance, the radical work of Harriet Powers in the nineteenth-century US, the astonishing work of post-war artists in Latin America and the women artists defining art in the 2020s. From the Cornish coast to Manhattan, Nigeria to Japan, The Story of Art Without Men is the history of art as it’s never been told before.

Tickets: £8
Footlights: Discount Applies

A £1 ticket levy is included in all stated ticket prices.

Yeovil Literary Festival Events last approximately 60 minutes.