Feminist Art & Theory

A gathering of publications, revues, and printed matter organised around feminist thought, feminist art practice, and the critical reframing of gender within art history and theory.

The objects here move between positions: manifestos and journals, exhibition catalogues and artists' books, theoretical texts and visual documents. Some were produced within explicitly feminist movements; others approach the question of the feminine obliquely — through Surrealism, psychoanalysis, body politics, or institutional critique.

What connects them is not a single argument but a shared pressure: the insistence that the feminine figure, the woman artist, and the structures that have contained or projected both, are subjects worth returning to.

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  • Obliques No. 14–15, La Femme Surréaliste — front cover. Éditions Borderie, Paris, 1977. Decorative gothic lettering on cream textured card. Centre image: Jane Graverol's L'Esprit saint, a bird in flight suspended within a rock formation reading as a torso. Surrealist exhibition ephemera. Obliques No. 14–15, La Femme Surréaliste — interior spread with Unica Zürn diagrammatic drawing. Watercolour and ink on grid, dated Mardi 26 Avril 77. Surrealist printed matter, Éditions Borderie.

    Obliques — La Femme Surréaliste, No. 14–15, Éditions Borderie, 1977

    Obliques — La Femme Surréaliste, No. 14–15, Éditions Borderie, 1977