Shulamith Behr

Shulamith Behr (1946 – 2023) was a South African art historian. She was a senior lecturer, and Honorary Research Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art. She was a specialist in 20th Century German Expressionism, with a particular interest in German and Swedish women artists. Quotes Inevitably, the admission of women to the rank of exhibitors upsets the patriarchal hegemony of avant-garde creativity and introduces new relationships of power between people in the group. It is clear that aspects of the performative are relevant to psychoanalytical theory in general and feminist art historical enquiry in particular. This is not to say that fantasy is free of social relations and power, but she argues that its process “orchestrates and shatters relations of power. I am not cowardly and I keep my word. I am faithful to myself, ferocious to myself, and indulgent to others. That is I, the man. I love the song of love—that is I, the woman. I consciously create for myself illusions and dreams, that is I the artist … I am much more a man than a woman. The desire to please and to pity alone make me a woman. I hear and I take note … I am neither man nor woman—I am I. External links Category:Women academics from South Africa Category:Art historians Category:1946 births Category:Women born in the 1940s Category:2023 deaths