The house in visual artistic creation and its relationship with feminism (from 1970 to 2020)

This book analyses the relationship between visual art practice based on the idea of the house and feminism from the 1970s to 2020. It starts with a description of the development of the feminist movement that began in this period, as well as the artistic activity on the house linked to it. It studies this creation and the link it has maintained since then with the movement, exploring the importance of this relationship with the artistic discourse. Then, through an analysis based on creative concepts, the causes underlying the visual artistic creations on the idea of the house by relevant artists of this period are studied. Throughout this analysis, a chronography is shown in which artists, works and social events are visualised and which grows as the work progresses. Finally, reflections and proposals are formulated to transform the current social model in order to achieve a fairer and more egalitarian society with this type of creation.

Cover of the book *The house in artistic creation and its relation to feminism (from 1970 to 2020)* by Violeta Andreu Mediero. Cover illustration by Violeta Andreu Mediero. (Source: Violeta Andreu Mediero).

Year: 2024
Pages: 354 pp.
Format: 17 x 24 cm
ISBN: 978-84-669-3816-3816-7
ISBN (PDF): 978-84-669-3817-4

How to cite: Andreu Mediero, Violeta. 2024. The house in visual artistic creation and its relationship with feminism (from 1970 to 2020). Madrid: Complutense Editions.

On the following website of Ediciones Complutense you can consult the technical data sheet, read the first pages or consult the table of contents:
https://www.ucm.es/ediciones-complutense/la-casa-en-la-creacion-artistica-visual-y-su

Fold-out chronography of the book *The house in visual art and its relation to feminism (from 1970 to 2020)* by Violeta Andreu Mediero (Source: Violeta Andreu Mediero)

*The house in artistic creation and its relationship with feminism (from 1970 to 2020)* by Violeta Andreu Mediero. (Source: Violeta Andreu Mediero)

Violeta Andreu signing her book *The House in artistic creation and its relationship with feminism (from 1970 to 2020)*. (Source: Violeta Andreu Mediero)

BOOK PRESENTATIONS. DISCLOSURE:

—PRESENTATION OF THE BOOK AT THE EL MUSEO LA NEOMUDÉJAR

Madrid, Wednesday 22 May 2024 - 19:30 h.

They present:

Presentation by:
Alicia Castillo Mena, director of Editorial Complutense.
Isabel Tajahuerce Ángel, editorial director of Hemisferios and subdelegate of the Rector for Equality at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM).
Margarita Aizpuru, art curator, art critic.
Violeta Andreu Mediero, PhD in Fine Arts, author of the book and artist.

The presentation was preceded by the performance Semiotics of the House (6') by the artist. The exhibition of the work Final research chronography (3 x 2 m) was also inaugurated.

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Presentation of the book *The house in visual art and its relation to feminism (from 1970 to 2020)* by Violeta Andreu Mediero at the Museo La Neomudéjar. (Source: Ediciones Complutense)

Violeta Andreu at the presentation of her book at the Museo La Neomudéjar. After her, Margarita Aizpuru and Alicia Castillo Mena. (Source: Ediciones Complutense)

Violeta Andreu in a moment of the performance *Semiotics of the House* at the Museo La Neomudéjar (Source: Ediciones Complutense)

Presentation of the book *The house in visual art and its relation to feminism (from 1970 to 2020)* by Violeta Andreu Mediero at Museo La Neomudéjar. (Source: Ediciones Complutense)

Violeta Andreu Mediero signing copies at The Neomudejar Museum (Source: Ediciones Complutense).

—PRESENTATION OF THE BOOK AT THE MUSEO NACIONAL THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA

Madrid, Friday, June 7, 2024 - 7:30 p.m.

Presentation made by:
Alicia Castillo Mena, director of the Complutense Publishing House.
Isabel Tajahuerce Ángel, Hemisferios editorial director and subdelegate of the Rector for Equality of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM).
Juan Ángel López Manzanares, curator of the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum
Jana Leo, artist and writer
Violeta Andreu Mediero, PhD in Fine Arts, author of the book and artist.

At the presentation, the video performance Semiotics of the House (6') made by the artist on May 22, 2024 at Museo La Neomudéjar was projected.

The work Final Chronography of the Research (3 x 2 m) was exhibited at the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum.

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Presentation of the book at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza. (Source: Marisa González)

Violeta Andreu at the presentation of the book at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza. (Source: Marisa González)

Screening of the video performance *Semiotics of the House* of Violeta Andreu at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza. (Source: Marisa González)

Exhibition of the *Final chronography of the research* (2 x 3 m) at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza. (Source: Violeta Andreu)

Poster projected during the presentation of the book at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza. (Source: Violeta Andreu)

In this YouTube link you can see the presentation at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, made by Muy Yeah Films.

Consult: Fresh News, Weekly Bulletin of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Complutense University of Madrid. Bulletin No. 335. Week of June 17 to 21, 2024

Semiotics of the House

In this performance, Andreu assumes the double role of artist and inhabitant of a house. and performs a remake of the performance Semiotics of the Kitchen that Martha Rosler performed in 1975. This, in turn, parodied Julia Child's cooking television program from the sixties. The work, like Rosler, replaces, in this case, artistic concepts about the house with abrupt signs of frustration.

Andreu, thus, also demonstrates with anger the identification of women with domestic care and, mainly, with the fact that it is the most dangerous place for them, as it is the space where the most violence against women develops.

By showing the domestic space identified with the artistic one, her gestures are also a protest against the treatment that women receive in the art world, their invisibility and therefore, the existing inequality.

The artist presents this house-museum-workshop space as a space of change and transformation.

Video performance Semiotics of the House projected at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, Spain.

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Madrid

Sábado 1 de junio de 2024
18:00 h – 19:00 h.

Domingo 2 de junio de 2024
12:30 h – 13:30 h.

Violeta Andreu en la caseta de la Unión de Violeta Andreu at the booth of the Union of Spanish University Publishers (UNE) at the Madrid Book Fair, Spain. (Source: Complutense Editions)

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Reel created by Violeta Andreu with photographs from Ediciones Complutense. (Source: Violeta Andreu)

Violeta Andreu: Poster advertised on social networks. (Source: Violeta Andreu)

Ediciones Complutense posters for social networks. (Source: Ediciones Complutense)

In this YouTube link you can see the interview conducted by the Union of University Editorials (UNE)