Kathryn Brown — Celebrating Female Agency in the Arts

Kathryn Brown is the author of books, articles, and catalogue essays on nineteenth and twentieth-century French art and literature, artists’ books, and contemporary art. Her books include ‘Women Readers in French Painting 1870–1890’ (Ashgate, 2012), ‘Matisse’s Poets: Critical Performance in the Artist’s Book’ (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), and (as editor and contributor) ‘The Art Book Tradition in Twentieth-Century Europe’ (Ashgate, 2013), ‘Interactive Contemporary Art: Performance in Practice’ (I.B. Tauris, 2014), and ‘Perspectives on Degas’ (Routledge, 2017). She is a lecturer in art history at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom and the series editor of ‘Contextualizing Art Markets for Bloomsbury Academic’.

Brown is the chair of the ‘From Bluestockings to the Guerrilla Girls — And Beyond: Mapping Female Associational Life in the Visual Arts’ session at our upcoming ‘Celebrating Female Agency in the Arts’ Conference. Brown will be joined by fellow speakers Ruth E. Iskin, Elizabeth Emery, B. Kathleen Gallagher, Sarah K. Nathan and Joanna Gardner-Huggett. By taking into consideration examples drawn from a range of geographies and time periods, the session examines how informal sociability spurred the creation of professional relationships that offered women opportunities to flourish as art world professionals.

To register for the conference taking place from the 26–27 June in New York visit: https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07eexo1e1e3a72795b&oseq=&c=&ch=