Updating Herstory: Special issue of Theory and Criticism of Literature and Arts Vol. 5, Nr. 2

With this issue of TCLA, which is multilingual once again after the monographic edition published exclusively in Italian (dedicated to 16th-century Florentine artists), we have decided to pay tribute to a series of female artists of various nations and historical periods. Women whose activity has been investigated too little or only superficially by historiographers. We have therefore proceeded, by means of new and precise archival research, mainly to update bio-bibliographical and art-historical data on a variety of themes: 15th-century copyists and illuminators active in the Monastero del Paradiso in Florence, Italy's first female architect Plautilla Bricci, Sofonisba Anguissola, Grisalda Bianchelli and Adriana Polissena, Asja Lācis, Sella Hasse and Elisabeth Voigt, Růžena Zátková, and – finally – Edmonia Lewis. The issue ends with an interesting study, conducted by Maurizio Rebaudengo, in the archives of the Einaudi publishing house in Turin. La Biblioteca Femminile Italiana e l’edizione dei sonetti ritrovati di Giovanna Grisalda Bianchelli e Adriana Polissena Carla Rossi, 7-17 Nuove informazioni d’archivio su copiste e miniatrici del monastero del Paradiso di Firenze Carla Rossi, 18-26 Asja Lācis: a Room of One’s Own and Trajectories of Nonbelonging Janis Taurens, 27-45 Im Schatten von Käthe Kollwitz. Die Künstlerinnen Sella Hasse und Elisabeth Voigt Anja Degner, 46-74 Růžena Zátková. Un’esperienza di ricerca Marina Giorgini, 75-97 Expanding Herstory: Imaging and Imagining Edmonia Lewis’ Roman Ateliers Gloria Jane Bell, 98-118 A short note on the alleged death certificate of Plautilla Bricci Andrew Pritchard, 119-120 The date of the meeting between Antoon Van Dyck and Sofonisba Anguissola in Palermo Carla Rossi, 121-126 “Ma era così per tutti”. L’assenza femminile nelle decisioni editoriali della casa editrice Einaudi negli anni ’60 Maurizio Rebaudengo, 127-144 A Study in Sketches. Gunta Stölzl’s Early Years in Munich (1914-1919) Mirjam Deckers, 145-168