During the latter part of the nineteenth century and the

early decades of the twentieth, a range of iconic female forms emerged

to dominate the global pictorial landscape. Female athletes and

adventurers, chorine stars, flappers, garconnes, Modern Girls, neue

Frauen, suffragettes, and trampky were all facets of the

dazzling and urbane New Woman who came to epitomize modern femininity in

photographs and on film. This construct existed as a set of abstract

ideals, even as it varied when translated across national contexts and

through a range of key historical moments including First Wave feminism,

colonialism, the First and Second World Wars, political revolutions, and

the rise of modernism. This panel, moderated by art historian Linda Nochlin, examines the

nuances of visual representations of this transgressive and

border-crossing figure from her inception in the later nineteenth

century to her full development in the interwar period and beyond.

Panelists include Elizabeth Otto, Clare Rogan, Vanessa Rocco, and Kristine Harris.