Authors:
- Elke Krasny, Institut für das künstlerische Lehramt, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna) - Author's Personal Website, Wikipedia

- Lara Perry, School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Brighton - Academia.edu, ORCID, ResearchGate

Abstract: »Depictions of sexual violence are frequently found in the collections and displays of art museums, and material that represents and affirms violence against women often is displayed unchallenged. This article poses questions about how the presence of this material has been addressed in the relations between feminist activism against sexual violence, art made by artists responding to and participating in feminist activism, and the curatorial activities that have arisen to address the challenges that these activities present to art museums. The chapter investigates the 2021 exhibition Titian: Women, Myth and Power at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and its handling of themes of rape in the central exhibit, Titian’s Rape of Europa; the history of themes of rape in feminist art since the 1970s and in exhibitions of this art that have taken place in museums in the last two decades; and curatorial engagements with sexual violence and rape in recent art exhibitions in the US and in the UK. The article argues that new strategies for the presentation and interpretation of artworks dealing with sexual violence are needed for museums to redress the patriarchal and colonial presence of sexual violence in their collection.« (Source: Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change)

Contents:

	Abstract (p. 1)
	Do Women* have to be Naked to get into the Museum? (p. 1)
		The Rape of Europa (p. 3)
	Legacies of the 1970s: Rape and Sexual Violence in Feminist Art in and out of the Museum (p. 4)
	Within and beyond the Regime of the Caption: New Values in Feminist Activism and Curatorial Practices (p. 7)
	Conclusion (p. 9)
	References (p. 10)

Wikipedia: History of Europe: History of Italy | Art: Artemisia Gentileschi, Suzanne Lacy, Leslie Labowitz-Starus, Ana Mendieta, Nancy Spero, Titian | Museum: Museums in the United States / Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum | Sex and the law: Rape / History of rape