Helen FRANKENTHALER<br/> <em>Cape, (Provincetown)</em> (1964) <!-- (recto) --><br /> synthetic polymer paint and resin on canvas<br /> 278.5 x 237.2 cm<br /> National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne<br /> Purchased with the assistance of the National Gallery Society of Victoria, 1967<br /> 1773-5<br /> © Estate of Helen Frankenthaler/ARS, New York. Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia Sydney <!--3963-->
Helen FRANKENTHALER
Cape, (Provincetown) (1964)
synthetic polymer paint and resin on canvas
278.5 x 237.2 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with the assistance of the National Gallery Society of Victoria, 1967
1773-5
© Estate of Helen Frankenthaler/ARS, New York. Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia Sydney
Observations: Women in Art and Design History – Seminar 3: Modern Art and Design Innovators: 1930-1970

Observations: Women in Art and Design History – Seminar 3: Modern Art and Design Innovators: 1930-1970
Recommended Reading List

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Presentation Title: Interior Propositions: Women and the Modern Interior
Speaker: Juliet Kinchin

Reading Highlights:

Kinchin, Juliet & O’Connor, Aidan. Counter Space. Design and the Modern Kitchen, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2011.

Kinchin, Juliet, ‘Performance and the Reflected Self: Modern Stagings of Domestic Space, 1860-1914’ in Studies in the Decorative Arts, 2008.

Kinchin, Juliet. ‘Design and Feminism: Re-Visioning Spaces, Places, and Everyday Things Joan Rothschild’ in Studies in Decorative Arts, 2000.

Kinchin, Juliet. ‘From Drawing Room to Scullery: Reading the Domestic Interior in the Paintings of Walter Sickert and the Camden Town Group’ in Tate Research Publication, 2012.

Olsen, Carlene. ‘10 Questions With… MoMA Curator Juliet Kinchin’ in Interior Design, 2019.

Presentation Title: Eva Zeisel: Pioneering Industrial Designer. A Personal Perspective
Speaker: Jean Richards

Reading Highlights:

Dunsmore, Amanda, ‘Eva Zeisel. A Playful Search for Beauty’, NGV Gallery Magazine, Sep/Oct, 2019.

Moore, Pat et al., Eva Zeisel: Life, Design and Beauty, Chronicle Books, 2013.

Richards, Jean & Brolin, Brent. C (ed.), Eva Zeisel: a Soviet Prison Memoir, Bent C. Brolin, 2012.

Zeisel, Eva, Eva Zeisel on Design. The Magic Language of Things, Abrams Press, 2011.

[Film] Throwing Curves: Eva Zeisel, Jyll Johnstone, Canobie Films, United States, 2002.

[Film] Eva Zeisel: an Unforgettable Designer, an Unforgettable Life, Filmed by Ann Arbor District Library, 2022.

[Video] Eva Zeisel: Life and Design stories spanning a century, a conversation between Margaret Gould Stewart, VP of Product Design at Facebook, and Jean Richards, Cooper Hewitt, 2019.

Additional Resources:

Hamilton, William L., Eva Zeisel, Ceramic Artist and Designer, Dies at 105, in NY Times, 2011.

Novák, Piroska, Object Fetish Part 9 | The objects of Eva Zeisel, Hypeandhyper, 2021.

Matchan, Linda, Eva Zeisel makes beautiful things / She’s been at it for decades and at 98, is enjoying a new vogue, Boston Globe, 2005.

Presentation Title: Re-Writing Modernism: Women Artists in 20th Century China
Speaker: Phyllis Teo

Reading Highlights:

Teo, Phyllis, Rewriting Modernism: Three Women Artists in Twentieth-Century China (Pan Yuliang, Nie Ou and Yin Xiuzhen), Leiden University Press; University of Chicago Press, 2016.

Teo, Phyllis, ‘Chinese and Other Asian Modernisms: A Comparative View of Art-Historical Contexts in the Twentieth Century’ in Asian Culture and History, Vol. 2, No. 2, July 2010.

Teo, Phyllis, ‘Alternative agency in representation by Contemporary Chinese Women Artists’ in Asian Culture and History, Vol. 2, No. 3, December 2010.

[NGV Essay] Sumida, Chiho, Rediscovering Fumie Taniguchi, 2020.

[NGV Essay] Nagai, Mariko. Moga: the audacity of being a modern girl, February, 2020.

[NGV Essay] Crothers, Wayne. Japanese Modernism: between earthquake and war, 2020.

[NGV Essay] Aitken, Annika. Divergent Ambitions: The Door of Hope Mission in early twentieth-century Shanghai, 2020.

[NGV Essay] Prugger, Katharina. NGV x MECCA: Louise Zhang, 2020.

Additional Resources:

‘Yin Xiuzhen on China, smoking and freedom’, Phaidon.

‘Plushy Terrorism and Cities in Suitcases: Artist Yin Xiuzhen on How to Challenge Society With Its Own Refuse’, ArtSpace, 2017.

‘Nie Ou: realism and abstraction for a personal painting’, in Fahrenheit Magazine.

Presentation Title: Women In Abstraction 
Speaker: Elizabeth Smith

Reading Highlights:

Smith, Elizabeth, Helen Frankenthaler: Composing with Color: Paintings 1962-1963, Gagosian/Rizzoli, 2014.

Additional Resources:

Schumacher, Bett, ‘The woman problem: gender displacement in the art of Helen Frankenthaler’ in Woman’s Art Journal, Vol. 31, Issue 2, Fall-winter 2010.

Rowley, Alison, Helen Frankenthaler: Painting History, Writing Painting, New Encounters, Arts, Cultures, Concepts. I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd., London/New York, 2007.

E. Gohari, Sybil, ‘Gendered reception: there and back again: an analysis of the critical reception of Helen Frankenthaler’ in Woman’s Art Journal, Vol. 35, Issue 1, Spring-Summer, 2014.

Presentation Title: Charlotte Perriand: Catalyst and Collaborator
Speakers: Dr Jane Hall, Zoe Ryan, Justin McGuirk

Reading Highlights:

McGuirk, Justin. Charlotte Perriand. The Modern Life, Design Museum, London, 2021.

Hall, Jane. Breaking Ground. Architecture by Women, Phaidon Press, New York, 2019.

Crook, Lizzie, Giving credit to female architects is a ‘necessary political act’ says author of book on buildings by women, Dezeen, 2019.

McGuirk, Justin, Design is complicit in economic and political systems that are inherently violent, Dezeen, 2013.

‘Curatorial chat | Zoë Ryan at the helm of the art institute’s architecture and design department’, Centre for Curatorial Leadership, 2018.

‘Q&A with Design Curator Zoë Ryan’, Chicago Gallery News, 2015