1st Edition

Women Artists and Abstract Art in Postwar Rome Connected by Travel

Edited By Jelena Stojković, Daniel Sturgis Copyright 2026
240 Pages 28 Color & 48 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 28 Color & 48 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This is a comprehensive collection of essays about women artists working with abstraction in postwar Rome, from the late 1940s through the 1970s. A diverse range of contributors from around the world analyse the individual artistic trajectories of more than 15 women artists and critics, bringing their work together for the first time in a distinct contribution to the continuous... Read more

Part 1: Material
1. Sandra Blow: Performed Materialism
Jennifer Johnson
2. Abstract Art in Transit: Maria Bonomi’s Transatlantic Trajectory between Brazil and Italy
Ana Avelar and Renata Rocco
3. Shaping a New Vision: Behjat Sadr between Iran, Italy, and France
Pia Gottschaller
4. High-Wire Act: Claire Falkenstein in Postwar Rome
Peter Benson Miller
Part 2: Dialogues
5. An American Artist in Rome: Adele Plotkin
Giusy Petruzzelli
6. Gencay’s Italian Chapter: A Passage of Becoming
Ahu Antmen
7. Edith Schloss’s Early Roman Period: Negotiating Artistic Agency in a Transatlantic World
Roberta Minnucci
8. Marisa Volpi and Women Abstract Painters at QUI arte contemporanea
Sonia Chianchiano
9. Carla Accardi, Crossing over Time and Space
Maud Houssais
Part 3: Form
10. Between Geometry and Breath: Tess Jaray’s Transcultural Abstraction
Yu Xiao
11. Mira Brtka, Milena Čubraković, and Their Shared Artistic Lives in 1960s Rome
Jelena Stojković
12. Lauretta Vinciarelli: Artistic Reflections between Rome and New York
Francesca Romana Forlini
13. Carmengloria Morales: An Abstraction of Withdrawal
Daniel Sturgis
14. Marcia Hafif’s Return to Rome: A Transnational Trajectory through the 1975 Exhibition at the Galleria d’Alessandro Ferranti
Maria Alicata

Biography

Jelena Stojković is an art historian and critic based in London. She is also a Senior Lecturer in Critical Theory at the School of Arts, Oxford Brookes University, UK.

Daniel Sturgis is a British artist and Professor of painting at the University of the Arts London, UK.