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Carla Lonzi was born on 6 March, 1931 in Florence, is an Italian art critic and feminist (1931–1982). Discover Carla Lonzi's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 51 years old?

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Occupation Writer, art critic
Age 51 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 6 March, 1931
Birthday 6 March
Birthplace Florence
Date of death (1982-08-03)1982-08-03 Milan
Died Place Milan
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1931

Carla Lonzi (Florence, 6 March 1931 – Milan, 2 August 1982) was an Italian art critic and feminist activist, who is best known as the cofounder of Rivolta Femminile (Feminine Revolt), an Italian feminist collective formed in 1970.

Carla Lonzi was born in Florence, Italy, on 6 March 1931 to a middle-class family.

Her father owned a small industrial company and her mother dedicated her life to the nurture and education of Lonzi and her four siblings.

1938

Her sister Marta Lonzi (1938-2008), an architect, was also a feminist activist.

In her early twenties, Lonzi became greatly interested in film and theatre, both as a spectator and creator.

This lead her to performance art, a practice she liked for its ability to stage real life experiences and revealing truths.

Lonzi did her final dissertation on theatre and graduated from the University of Florence.

Later in her career, the lessons she learned from film and the theatre continued to influence her work.

1950

Lonzi began her career as an art critic in the late 1950s.

1955

In 1955 Lonzi married Mario Lena.

Lonzi's following book, Writings on Art is a diaristic text written between 1955 and 1970.

Because it spans over a 15-year period, its ideas are in constant evolution.

Most of the ideas expressed in the book are gathered from information collected from periodicals, exhibition catalogues, conference papers, and newspaper essays.

1960

In 1960, she gave birth to their son, Battista Lena.

Lonzi found married life straining.

1963

She and Lena separated in 1963.

1964

The following year, in 1964, Lonzi began her relationship with Pietro Consagra, an Italian sculptor.

Lonzi and Consagra never married.

1966

In 1966 she authored a monograph on the work of Surrealist painter Henri Rousseau.

1969

Lonzi's most significant works include Autoritratto ("Self-Portrait", 1969); "Writings on Art" (1970); Manifesto di Rivolta femminile ("Manifesto of the Feminine Revolt", 1970); Sputiamo su Hegel, La donna clitoridea e la donna vaginale e altri scritti ("Let’s Spit on Hegel, The Clitoridian Woman and the Vaginal Woman, and Other Writings", 1974); and "Diary of a Feminist" (1977).

Their relationship ended in 1969, following the publication of Lonzi's Autorittrato.

In 1969 she published Autorittrato, a book collecting a series of tape-recorded conversations between Lonzi and 14 artists between 1965 and 1969.

Autorittrato reworked the role and identity of the art critic by deploying a style of writing revolving around subjectivity and discussion.

This style is characterized by a natural flow, the signalling of pauses, and a first-person narrative.

Further, Lonzi strayed from the most traditional use of photography, using caption-less, black and white, personal photos of the artists instead of images of their work.

Most importantly, Autorittrato revealed Lonzi's theory of creative subjectivity, one which aims to deconstruct patriarchal concepts such as individuality.

Through her recorded interviews Lonzi was seeking to capture the processes art that she argued was often lost in art's exhibitions.

The artists featured in Autorittrato were: Lucio Fontana, Jannis Kounellis, Luciano Fabro, Pino Pascali, Giulio Paolini, Mimmo Rotella, Carla Accardi (the only female artist), Getulio Alviani, Enrico Castellani, Mario Nigro, Salvatore Scarpitta, Giulio Turcato, Cy Twombly and Pietro Consagra.

Lonzi's art criticism went largely unnoticed and was barely mentioned within academic circles.

1970

There are several proposed explanations for this, including that Lonzi's art historical work was widely interpreted as an extension of her work as a feminist activist and that it did not adopt the traditional approach to the promotion of Italian art used in the 1970s and 80s.

Scholars have described Autorittrato as Lonzi's farewell to the art world.

Although she viewed art as incompatible with the objectives of radical feminism, she continued writing about art or "creativity as a mode of self-emancipation."

In the early 1970s, Lonzi adopted a feminist stance in relation to art.

She had grown to view art as being yet another part of a system of institutions and labour which enable unequal power relations and the overall oppression of women.

Lonzi became disillusioned and went as far as dismissing art criticism as a "phoney profession".

She subsequently abandoned her career as an art critic and fully embraced the feminist cause.

Despite her eventual negative outlook on the field of art and art criticism, Lonzi has said that the experience and knowledge she gained from her work as art critic informed her feminist activism.

In 1970 Lonzi, Carla Accardi, and Elvira Banotti founded Rivolta Femminile, an Italian feminist collective.

Their first action, in July 1970, consisted of plastering the walls of Rome with copies of the "Manifesto di Rivolta Femminile".

The politics of Rivolta Femminile were largely grounded in "autocoscienza" theory and practices.