Special issue: Women Painting: Scottish Art 1940-1980
- Submitting institution
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Glasgow School of Art
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 7450
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis
- ISBN
- 0000000000
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- This co-edited special issue represents a process of investigation through its aim to answer three
central research questions: what are the reasons for the exclusion of mid-20th century women critics and painters from dominant accounts of Scottish art history?; what are the challenges inherent in attempts to rediscover and rehabilitate artists’ reputations as a feminist strategy?; what are the limitations of existing research which considers the same period, place and medium? The methodological approach is feminist art history; the journal explicitly contests, re-contextualises and critiques much existing research on 20th century Scottish art (painting, in particular) from this perspective. Methods include primary and empirical research via unpublished and uncatalogued personal archives, oral history and interviews.
The journal builds on the work of other researchers in Scotland who have similarly identified new audiences and readerships for Scottish artists whose work achieved critical recognition in their lifetime but whose place in art historical narratives has been forgotten or marginalised (e.g. Sarah Neely on the work of Margaret Tait; Nicky Bird and Jenny Brownrigg’s work on early Scottish photography; extensive work on women’s history by Sara Sheridan). Beyond editing, the journal includes an introduction (7k words) and a further single authored article (10k words) written by Thompson.
In May 2020, a publicly-focussed extension of the journal, described as a mini-series, was published by MAP Magazine, with a shorter, revised introduction (written by Thompson), which expanded the audience for the project beyond the academy. Thompson’s article forms the basis for her 2021 AAH conference paper and a new article currently in progress on the work of Joan Eardley.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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