Carla Lonzi – författare

A comprehensive collection of texts from the most influential and iconic figure of Italian second-wave feminism.  Recently rediscovered in Italy and abroad, the works of Carla Lonzi tend to fall under the remit of art history or feminist theory. Art historians focus on the texts written in the 1960s, when Lonzi was still actively working as a critic, whereas feminist scholars engage with her more openly political interventions, published after her declared embrace of a separatist feminism. In 1970 Lonzi decided to leave the art world for good and dedicate herself to her newly founded feminist collective, Rivolta Femminile. While recognizing the break in Lonzi’s life and work, this anthology maps the overall arc of her intellectual and political production, giving equal weight to her seminal contributions to art criticism and her trailblazing feminist writings. A comprehensive collection of texts from the most influential and iconic figure of Italian second-wave feminism, Feminism in Revolt seeks to shed light on Lonzi’s versatile approach to literary genres and compositions by juxtaposing essayistic texts, poems, diary excerpts, and manifestos.

Carla Lonzi's Self-portrait transforms traditional conceptions of linear art historical thinking, reimagines the role of the critic, as well as the role of women in the world of art. For the first time now, Carla Lonzi can speak for herself in English, inviting readers to engage in her experimental writing and feminist thinking. Self-portrait is one of the earliest examples of an art critic focusing on artists' processes and subjectivity and transforming herself then, into an artist. This translation brings Carla Lonzi's work to an international audience and forces us to reconsider the trajectory of modern art in Italy and beyond since the 1960s.