BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.3//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4470@lickingevents.com DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260929T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260929T200000 DTSTAMP:20260903T121119Z URL:https://lickingevents.com/events/painting-against-women-misogyny-moder n-art-and-the-impacts-of-sexist-oppression-then-and-now/ SUMMARY:“Painting Against Women: Misogyny\, Modern Art\, and the Impacts of Sexist Oppression\, Then and Now DESCRIPTION:Denison University's Laura C. Harris Series welcomes Art Histor ian Allison Leigh presenting a lecture\, “Painting Against Women: Misogy ny\, Modern Art\, and the Impacts of Sexist Oppression\, Then and Now” a t 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday\, Sept. 29\, at the Denison Museum (240 West Broadw ay). The event is free and open to the public. For more information contac t Bevin Peppard at peppardb@denison.edu or visit denison.edu/series/harris .\n\nLeigh\, specializing in nineteenth- and twentieth-century European an d Russian art\, will present a talk drawn from her upcoming publication\, The Misogynists: A Reckoning with Modern Art (Abrams\, Nov. 10\, 2026)\, a s part of the 2026-2027 Laura C. Harris Series.\n\nAcross the last two cen turies\, several of the artists canonized as the greatest painters of the modern era produced work with a strikingly consistent theme: contempt for women. Edgar Degas’s depictions of ballerinas and bathers as animalian\; Pablo Picasso’s violent fragmentation of female sex workers’ bodies u nder the aegis of Cubist innovation—much of the art now enshrined as cen tral to modernism’s achievement is predicated on degrading or disdainful representations of women. Leigh’s talk offers an introductory account o f how such varied expressions of misogyny came to saturate the modernist t radition\, and of the ways art history as a field has normalized this cont ent\, conditioning students and museum-goers alike toward self-silencing i n the face of overtly sexist imagery.\n\nEmerging from Leigh’s experienc e teaching undergraduates\, the talk surveys how misogynistic discourse ac ross a range of fields has shaped both women and their representation hist orically. The project advances a renewed feminist methodology\, one that s ituates misogyny in modern art not as isolated or exceptional\, but as sym ptomatic of systemic structures.\n\nLeigh’s talk speaks directly to this year’s Laura C. Harris Series theme\, Feminist Temporalities and the Fu tures We Strive For\, which explores how feminists understand\, use\, and disrupt time rather than assuming it moves in a straight line. Her ‘then and now’ framing takes up this same question within art history: rather than treating misogyny in modernist painting as something safely confined to the past\, she shows how it persists into the present\, continuing to shape how women are seen\, taught about\, and studied. In doing so\, her t alk takes up the series’ central question of what counts as “progress\ ,” and for whom\, resisting a linear narrative in which such contempt be longs safely to the past.\n\nThis talk builds on Leigh’s broader work on gender and representation. She is associate professor of art history and the SLEMCO &\; Board of Regents Support Fund Endowed Professor in Art a t the University of Louisiana at Lafayette\, where her research develops n ew feminist approaches to art history and examines how masculinity has bee n portrayed across different historical periods. That work shows up in her book Picturing Russia’s Men: Masculinity and Modernity in 19th-Century Painting (Bloomsbury\, 2020) and in the co-edited volume Russian Orientali sm in a Global Context: Hybridity\, Encounter\, and Representation (Manche ster University Press\, 2023) — both of which laid the groundwork for th e ideas she’ll present in this talk.\n\nLeigh’s research has been pres ented at institutions including the Queen’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace \, the Netherlands Institute for Art History at The Hague\, Yale Universit y\, UCLA\, and New York University. She previously held a faculty appointm ent in the Department of Art History at Rutgers University and a Postdocto ral Fellowship at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City.\n\nSponsored by the Laura C. Harris Series\, Denison Mus eum\, the Art History &\; Visual Culture Program\, and the Women’s &a mp\; Gender Studies Program.\n CATEGORIES:Entertainment LOCATION:Denison Museum\, 240 West Broadway\, Granville\, OH\, 43023\, Unit ed States GEO:40.069083;-82.523192 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=240 West Broadway\, Granvil le\, OH\, 43023\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Denison Museum: geo:40.069083,-82.523192 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR