Art and Feminism in Anne Marie Sauzeau’s critical thinking between the Seventies and Eighties

Abstract

The text analyzes the work by Anne Marie Sauzeau Boetti at the turn of the Seventies and Eighties, it is focused on her critical and intellectual activity related to art and feminism. These last, unlike what happened in Carla Lonzi and Lea Vergine, coexisted effectively and stubbornly in the thought of Sauzeau, who traced a third critical path compared to them. In this text are analysed her numerous contributions published on specialized press, like Data magazine, movement magazine and general press, from Il Manifesto to the broadcast for RadioTre. It is examinated also the role she had at the publishing house Edizioni delle donne, that she contributed to found in 1974 (the first issue was “L’occupazione fu bellissima”, 1976). In both those experiences Anne Marie Sauzeau Boetti did a fundamental work. Through a language and writing able to transmitting a deep and manifold thought, infact she was the one who updated the Italian art system about the teorethical debate on feminism, informing and bringing in Italy what was happening on the international scene and she employeed her critical work in support of her contemporary women artists (such as Elisa Montessori, Marisa Merz and Carla Accardi). Until arriving at the beginning of the Eighties, to suggest a possible way to read the works of female artists of the past.

Keywords

• anne marie sauzeau boetti
• art critic
• feminism
• seventies
• eighties