On Radio 4 this Morning, they were discussing the fact that the Vorticist's Exhibition at Tate Britain, just opening 17th June 2011, includes Women Artists' work. The curators, evidently, made a particular effort to include Women Artists' work (Helen Saunders, Dorothy shakespear and Jessica Dismore) - admitting that although an abundance of female contributors' work is stored in the archives, they would normally have gone straight to Bomberg, Epstein, etc.
There is a school of thought that, as in Sweden recently the curators deliberately showed purely Women Artist's work to demonstrate that there is plenty of material to fill an exhibition if the curators choose to exclude the male Artists. There is also a school of thought that says that Art should be shown to represent the normal demographic of male/female percentages without stressing the bias -but just displaying fairly.
I would welcome your thoughts on the matter.
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