kit3d ago

I learned a new word today, cryptogyny.

I’m going to have to sit with it for a bit.

It’s not that I was unfamiliar with the context. Practically anywhere you care to look there are women whose work has been ignored, hidden or stolen. Women who’ve not been given the credit they deserved, or very quickly been dropped.

I mean, I really would like to know why I never learned about Emmy Noether in school, right next to Albert Einstein, even though he recognised her genius.

Cryptogyny. Use it when you need to.

https://olivia.science/cryptogyny/

Via @olivia

Cryptogyny

On the systematic obfuscation of women's contributions.

https://olivia.science
Show threadgkrnours2d ago
@hypostase @olivia you probably hace hears of the ready made from duchamp. Object he took out of their usual place an simply put in a museum with his signature. Like that urinal. (or more exactly one of the maybe 15 urinal, he signed a bunch).
Did you know the idea came from one of a woman he knew?
Show threadOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ2d ago
@gkrnours @hypostase no, please say more?
Show threadgkrnours2d ago
@olivia @hypostase I don't remember the details, just that he heard the idea of taking a random object and calling it a piece of art from a female acquaintance. Sorry.
Show threadkit2d ago

@gkrnours

@olivia

Maybe

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/duchamp-fountain-dispute-2379304

Did Duchamp Steal Credit for 'The Fountain' from a Woman Artist? | Artnet News

Two art critics claim in a new book that Duchamp's Dadaist masterpiece was made by German artist Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven.

Artnet News
Show threadkit2d ago
@gkrnours
I've heard the story before, but it's not one I've actually looked at, though this article feels familiar.
@olivia
Show threadgkrnours
@hypostase @olivia oh yeah, that's the one. Thanks for tracking it down :)
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