The Role of Emotions in the Construction of Female Artistic Authorship during Franco's Regime. Stories of Possibilities and Resistances

Abstract

The article analyzes the methodological possibilities of “affective turn” within art historiography, and insists on the need to rethink new ways of constructing these histories. To do so, it takes as a case study the construction of female artistic authorship, asking what role the emotions experienced in their formative years played in this process. We make the case by looking at the experience of some women from the Basque Country who recieved their artistic education in the fifties and sixties of the last century. Among other questions, the text studies the implication of emotions in student’s the technical or stylistic choice, how their experiences abroad influenced their artistic desires or how the affectivities given in these formative years had an impact on their future projection.