Varieties of Togetherness: Some Approaches to Feminist Art History

You are invited to a research seminar hosted by the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, with speaker Dr Amy Tobin, Department of History of Art at the University of Cambridge.

This talk reflects on writing art histories of togetherness.

Drawing on Dr Amy Tobin’s recent book Women Artists Together: Art in the Age of Women’s Liberation (Yale University Press, 2023) and other work, Tobin proposes togetherness as a model to think about the politics of art beyond identity, to understand difference, but also solidarity, as well as a means to deal with difficulty in the present.

About the speaker

Dr Amy Tobin is Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art, University of Cambridge and Curator, contemporary programmes at Kettle’s Yard, the University’s modern and contemporary art gallery. She is also Fellow and Director of Studies in History of Art of Newnham College, Cambridge.

She has curated numerous exhibitions at Kettle’s Yard including Linderism (2020), Making New Worlds: Li Yuan-chia & Friends (2023) and Here is a Gale Warning: Art, Crisis and Survival (2025).

Her research has been published in various edited books, journals, exhibition catalogues and magazine. In 2023, she published a major article on the artist Candace Hill-Montgomery in Art History as well as her first monograph Women Artists Together: Art in the Age of Women’s Liberation with Yale University Press.

More information

This seminar is free to attend and all are welcome.

Please register here if you would like to attend.

For more details, please email Gill Park at G.Park@leeds.ac.uk.

Image

Cecilia Vicuña, Frente Cultural, 1973. Oil on canvas, 76 x 93cm. Private Collection. Courtesy of Cecilia Vicuña.