Paris A. Spies-Gans is a historian of gender and art. She received her PhD in History from Princeton University and her MA in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art. She is currently a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Her first book, A Revolution on Canvas: The Rise of Women Artists in Britain and France, 1760-1830, is forthcoming in June 2022 with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies for British Art in association with Yale University Press.
Paris A. Spies-Gans
Articles
Living, Breathing Expressions of Self: On Jennifer Higgie’s “The Mirror and the Palette”
Higgie’s book tells a remarkable story of women artists’ self-possession and creativity.
“Fortyish Woman Seeks Meaning of Life”
Finnish author Mia Kankimäki follows in the footsteps of a series of adventurous “night women.”
“Don’t Regret. Remember”: Frictions of History and Gender in Céline Sciamma’s “Portrait of a Lady on Fire”
The French director’s brilliant 2019 film powerfully captures the paradoxes of female creativity and agency.
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