A groundbreaking catalogue for the exhibition co-organised by Museum Arnhem Saarlandmuseum and
the Belvedere Vienna. Radical! Women Artists and Modernisms 1910 -1950 questions the
concept of modern art as a linear development primarily driven by men. Instead it brings
artists from a wide range of backgrounds into a dialogue and thus opens up new perspectives on
the diversity and crossborder dimension of modernism. The works featured here can be considered
as not only bearing witness to rapidly advancing industrialisation urbanisation and
technological development but also reflecting the complexity and contradictions that came with
emancipation and evolving gender roles. Regardless of their artistic expression or origin
these artists were united by the search for a new visual vocabulary in order to understand the
rapidly changing world and respond to the pressing questions of their time. Their works became
an act of rebellion against patriarchy capitalism fascism and colonialism. Featured
artists include Gertrud Arndt Louise Bourgeois Claude Cahun Benedetta Cappa Elizabeth
Catlett Sonia Delaunay Maya Deren Friedl Dicker-Brandeis Alexandra Exter Leonor Fini
Trude Fleischmann Erika Giovanna-Klien Natalia Goncharova Hannah Höch Käthe Kollwitz Lotte
Laserstein Tamara de Lempicka Alice Lex- Nerlinger Jeanne Mammen Marlow Moss Hanna Nagel
Alice Neel Anton Prinner Gazbia Sirry Sophie Taeuber-Arp Dorothea Tanning Charley Toorop
Toyen Madiha Umar and Fahr-El-Nissa Zeid.
