Special envoy to Évian-les-Bains (Haute-Savoie)
They are called Marie-Aimée Lucas-Robiquet, Marcelle Ackein, Andrée Karpelès, Clémentine-Hélène Dufau, Monique Cras... At the Palais Lumière in Évian-les-Bains (Haute-Savoie), which presents samples of their works, we gets to know these forty female artists whose main point in common, apart from their sex, is to have traveled a lot.
The period considered, from 1880 to the Liberation, means that not all of them necessarily went through the Belle Époque, the Roaring Twenties and the two world wars at the same time.
Some worked during the Art Nouveau period, others during that of Art Deco, or even Cubism.
Despite this heterogeneity, at a time of new questions relating to the colonial fact or the condition of women, and at a time when patriarchy and imperialism are easily assimilated, this set of trajectories has its interest.
The whole revealing in particular that the look of the woman on the natives is not so…
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