Intersections of gender and political economy: Florine Stettheimer and other modernist salonnieres.

Valerie Velardo

doi:10.32920/ryerson.14648145

Abstract

"Salonnieres of the Modernist era have used salon culture as a means to reshape traditional public spheres and social structures. Female salonnieres have been influential, yet often forgotten, figures of modernist art institutions. They used their financial and economic clout to help reshape political and economic social structures. Their example also allows us to study the ways in which finances either limited or allowed women to shape social structures, while proving the importance of their salons within the modernist era as a public sphere and as a space to challenge traditional gender roles. Thus, they helped shape the political and economic dimensions of the future art market."--Introduction.

Highlights

En/Gendering the Modernist SalonSalons were among the first institutions of modern culture
This essay explores the socio-economic and political background of salonniere Florine Stettheimer Stettheimer with Brooks, Barney and Stein providing further context and examples. It further considers the ways in which Florine Stettheimer uses her social and economic status to express her political beliefs through her artistic practices, her gender defying salon, androgynous portraits, and the socio-political and economic critiques in her paintings and poems
The social space and economic context of the salon during the modernist era, those led by female salonnieres Stein, Stettheimer, Barney and Brooks, influenced gender experimentation

Summary

Introduction

En/Gendering the Modernist SalonSalons were among the first institutions of modern culture. Their example allows us to study the ways in which finances either limited or allowed women to shape social structures, while proving the importance of their salons within the modernist era as a public sphere and as a space to challenge traditional gender roles.

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