Women Artists and Abstract Art in Postwar Rome

Jelena Stojković is an art historian and critic based in London and a Senior Lecturer in Critical Theory at the School of Arts, Oxford Brookes University, UKDaniel Sturgis is a British artist and professor of painting at the University of the Arts London, UK

• Introduction PART 1: Material 1. Sandra Blow: Performed Materialism 2. Abstract Art in Transit: Maria Bonomi’s Transatlantic Trajectory Between Brazil and Italy 3. Shaping a New Vision: Behjat Sadr between Iran, Italy and France 4. Claire Falkenstein in Post-war Rome PART 2: Dialogues 5. An American Artist in Rome: Adele Plotkin 6. Gencay’s Italian Chapter: A Passage of Becoming 7. Edith Schloss's Early Roman Period: Negotiating Artistic Agency in a Transatlantic World 8. Marisa Volpi and Women Abstract Painters at QUI arte contemporanea 9. Carla Accardi, Crossing Over Time and Space PART 3: Form 10. Between Geometry and Breath: Tess Jaray's Transcultural Abstraction 11. Mira Brtka, Milena Čubraković, and their Shared Artistic Lives in 1960s Rome 12. Lauretta Vinciarelli: Artistic Reflections Between Rome and New York 13. Carmengloria Morales: An Abstraction of Withdrawal 14. Marcia Hafif’s Return to Rome: A Transnational Trajectory Through the 1975 Exhibition at the Galleria d’Alessandro Ferranti