Series: #2 Spotlight on female artists (Overview)
Beath Ames Swartz
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Euheduanna (401-460 Ce)early female writer from the Ancient Near East (Euheduanna is her title as we do not know her name). She is a priestess wrote the first hymns to the Goddess Inana/Inanna. She is the daughter of Sargon of Akkad (c. 2334–2279 bc.) the Akkadian ruler. She is said to be one of the first writers in history. I will also take a look at her hymns to the popular deity and see how that impacts both art and writing. Her work will give us insight into which she was, even if only in a small way.
Hyptia (370-416 Ce) – Female philosopher who taught math and science in Alexandria. I have been fascinated with her since I learned of her in the movie Agora. I want to write about her show her contribution to society and history. I also want to cover her death and the events surrounding that from a perspective of documents as close as I can find as only secondary sources describe her at that time.
Rosaleen Norton (1917-1979) Artist whose work inspired the book Pan’s Daughter by Nevill Drury. A documentary has been made about her. I have only recently discovered her work and will enjoy researching on this woman who was into art, the occult and especially the God Pan. Her work will be a good balance to Susan Boulet’s art in terms of a “darker” tone and focus on a male deity as opposed to a Goddess.
Monica Sjoo (1938-2005) she co-authored a book called The Great Cosmic Mother. I will write about her work both as an artist and writer. She connects the past of early prehistoric cultures and rituals to women as inventors of culture. Her work is a wonderful reference to others like her who is creative along a similar vein such as Barbara Walker.
Beath Ames Swartz (1936-Current) A Jewish artist who is known for her travels to the holy land to capture the story of women, of the Bible. Her work is very abstract when compared to the others in this series. A Visual Artist whose work is along the same time period of many of these women. This was unintentional, but not surprising as all of these modern day artists lived around a similar time. Swartz art was recently featured on PBS a few weeks ago and that is how I discovered her work. I will highlight her work on world cultures and universal symbolism such as the tree of life and the chakras.
Susan S. Boulet (1941-1997) Artist who made many beautiful paintings of animals and Goddess. I will relate her work to the writings of Carl Jung on symbolism and color. I have a copy of her beautiful paintings in the form of Animal Spirits knowledge cards. It is these cards that I will use to highlight her paintings. It is her work that leads me to write about female artists and create this series on women, universal symbolism and creativity in its many forms.
Notes and Sources
http://www.britannica.com/biography/Sargon
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1186830/
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosaleen_Norton
http://www.blog.chasclifton.com/?p=11724
http://www.amazon.com/Pans-Daughter-Nevill-Drury/dp/1869928318
http://www.web.archive.org/web/20160512224256/http://monicasjoo.org/index.htm
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/74469.Barbara_G_Walker
http://www.bethamesswartzfilm.com/
http://www.pomegranate.com/k152.html (Published the Animal Spirit Cards)
