Creative Acts

Anne Higonnet, Barbara Novak Professor of Art History, Barnard College

​​How to express the hopes, fears, and physical experience of pregnancy or birth? Such subjects remained invisible until women began to become confident professional artists. This talk looks at some of the beautiful solutions to a vital human challenge, including by Berthe Morisot, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Louise Bourgeois, Heiji Shin, and Carmen Winant.