Frances Borzello Explained

Frances Borzello
Alt:Frances Borzello
Birth Place:England
Alma Mater:University College London
Known For:Art History, Women's Studies

Frances Borzello is a British art historian and scholar, feminist art critic and author. Her work specializes in the social history of art, including the social position of European woman artists in the context of their society and the study of female self-portraits and female nudes.[1] She authored the book Seeing Ourselves: Women's Self Portraits, which has been in print since 1998 and has 30 editions.[2] Her work is widely recognized as a contribution to the fields of art history and women's studies.

Biography

Borzello earned her PhD from the University College London in 1980.[3] Her dissertation was published in 1981 and was titled, "The relationship of fine art and the poor in late nineteenth century England".[4] Borzello was a member of a women's photography group founded in the 1970s called Second Sight, which included members such as Annette Kuhn, Jill Pack, and Cassandra Wedd.[5]

Borzello's writing, "Preaching to the converted? Feminist art publishing in the 1980s", was included in the 1995 book .[6]

Her 1998 book,[7] Seeing Ourselves: Women's Self Portraits, discusses women creating their own images and the power of self-portraits as opposed to being portrayed as objects, as well as a historical look at gender, identity, and representation.[8] [9] The book is an in-depth look at history, starting with the self-portraits of Medieval nuns and eventually ending in the 21st century. The book examines themes in self-portraits, including motherhood, female beauty, and musical talents, as seen in early work, and themes of sexuality, pain, race, gender, and disease, as seen in the 20th-century. Artists discussed in the book Seeing Ourselves: Women's Self Portraits include Judith Leyster, Anna Dorothea Therbusch, Marie-Nicole Dumont, Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot, Suzanne Valadon, Gwen John, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Charlotte Berend-Corinth, Frida Kahlo, Wanda Wulz, Charlotte Salomon, Judy Chicago, Jo Spence, Hannah Wilke, Carolee Schneemann, Cindy Sherman, Tracey Emin and more.[10] The 2016 edition of Seeing Ourselves: Women's Self Portraits is fully revised and includes a new afterword by the author about selfies.[11]

The 2010 book, Frida Kahlo: Face to Face was co-authored with American artist Judy Chicago and focuses on Frida Kahlo's career as well as Kahlo's artwork in relation to topics like female self-portraiture and commercialization.[12] [13]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Reclaiming the self through art. Purvis. June. 1999-02-05. Times Higher Education (THE). 2018-06-11. en.
  2. Web site: Borzello, Frances. OCLC World Cat. 2018-06-13.
  3. Book: Korda, Andrea. Printing and Painting the News in Victorian London: "The Graphic and Social Realism, 1869-1891. Routledge. 2017. 978-1351553247. 14. Google Books.
  4. Borzello. Frances. The relationship of fine art and the poor in late nineteenth century England. 1981. Document Supply Centre, British Library. 501940803. Boston Spa, England. en.
  5. Book: Kuhn, Annette. The Power of the Image: Essays on Representation and Sexuality. Routledge. 2017. 978-1136137648. 9–10.
  6. Book: Deepwell, Kate. New feminist art criticism: critical strategies. 1995. Manchester University Press. 9780719042577. en. Google Books.
  7. Web site: Seeing Ourselves: from Boccaccio to the age of the selfie. Cooke. Rachel. 2016-04-11. the Guardian. en. 2018-06-13.
  8. News: Who does she think she is?. Moore. Suzanne. April 4, 1998. The Independent. 2018-06-11. en-GB.
  9. News: Self-regard. O'Sullivan. Niamh. January 9, 1999. The Irish Times. 2018-06-12. en-US.
  10. News: La Fridamanía toma la web: Así es la más grande retrospectiva digital sobre Frida Kahlo. La Nación, Grupo Nación. 2018-06-13. es-LA.
  11. News: Sexy selfies through the ages. 2016-03-26. The Spectator. 2018-06-13. en-US.
  12. Web site: Saving Frida Kahlo From Her Own Celebrity. Miranda. Carolina A.. 2014-07-14. ARTnews. en-US. 2018-06-13.
  13. News: Face to Face with Frida Kahlo, Judy Chicago, and Frances Borzello. 2010-10-20. Broad Strokes: The National Museum of Women in the Arts. 2018-06-13. en-US. 6 November 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191106020725/https://blog.nmwa.org/2010/10/20/face-to-face-with-frida-kahlo-judy-chicago-and-frances-borzello/. dead.
  14. Web site: Nude awakening. Borzello. Frances. 2002-11-02. The Guardian. en. 2018-06-13.
  15. Auchmuty. Rosemary. Borzello. Frances. Davis Langdell. Cheri. 1983-01-01. The image of women's studies. Women's Studies International Forum. en. Elsevier. 6. 3. 291–298. 10.1016/0277-5395(83)90054-7. 0277-5395.
  16. Web site: Tea, Toilets & Typewriters: Women's Clubs in London. 2008. History Today. 2018-06-11.

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