Sull’insegnamento universitario di storia dell’arte contemporanea e le scritture al femminile. Riflessioni sul metodo, il canone e i manuali di storia dell’arte. Spunti per un avio di riflessione

Gabriella De Marco proposes a reflection on gender starting from some textbooks adopted in Italian schools and universities since the mid-seventies, with specific reference to some volumes of Italian and foreign authors published between 1970 and 2016. The gender, which the author defines as female writings , is a reflection on the canon or more precisely on the start of the canon in the studies of contemporary art history.The start of a process of historicization of women’s art is also an occasion for a reasoning on the potential that a manual has in the forma tion of cultural taste. The author has examined some artists active in the international context from the neoclassical age to the present. The survey has highlighted, beyond the personal choices of the authors, the existence of an interior and an exterior that deeply affects the list of selected artist, regardless of the gender issue. Finally, the text wants to have a glance at some of those textbooks on which generations of students have been formed. It is proposed as a contribution to the beginning of the canon and the contemporary studies, starting from the art of women