WAS – Women Artists’ Shows.Salons.Societies. June 2018

In partnership with the Artl@s project, AWARE introduces WAS (Women Artists Shows.Salons.Societies), a research project focusing on group exhibitions of women artists. Our ambition is to build a descriptive and analytical catalogue of these exhibitions from the end of the 19^th to the end of the 20^th century and to start reflecting on their specific history, through the study of the evolution of the social, cultural, and institutional conditions that permitted or made them necessary through the analysis of the various levels of mediation and organisation at work in these shows, or also through the examination of their symbolical functioning and critical response.

With the support of Purdue University, the Institut d’Histoire moderne et Contemporaine (IHMC), the Département d’Histoire et Théorie des Arts of the ENS, and the labex TransferS.