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GRITLI FAULHABER presents a series of new works on canvas in this exhibition titled “Les Garçonnes”, a reference to the subculture of women in the “roaring twenties”. The 1920s flapper-like style of bobbed hair, knee-height skirts, and make up went along with female emancipation: women were suddenly and playfully adopting stereotypical male behaviors such as smoking, drinking, driving, and sexual promiscuity. There was an attempt to overturn socially forced codes on female gender roles: The romantic glamor of the period hid its darker premise.
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GRITLI FAULHABER presents a series of new works on canvas in this exhibition titled “Les Garçonnes”, a reference to the subculture of women in the “roaring twenties”. The 1920s flapper-like style of bobbed hair, knee-height skirts, and make up went along with female emancipation: women were suddenly and playfully adopting stereotypical male behaviors such as smoking, drinking, driving, and sexual promiscuity. There was an attempt to overturn socially forced codes on female gender roles: The romantic glamor of the period hid its darker premise.
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