Intellectual and artistic production by women in the journals Plástica and Revista del arte y la arquitectura en América Latina

The article seeks to examine the active role played by women in the art circuit, as writers and as artists, in light of the journals Plástica and Revista del arte y la arquitectura en América Latina. The analysis focuses on articles that deal with several exhibitions, both solo and group shows, involving women artists in the 1970s and 1980s. One may note that although women were increasingly involved as participants in the field, working as artists, as managers and as writers, in the case of women artists certain guidelines favored only some figures. The question remains open as to which conditions prevail over the discourse of women in Colombian art, by virtue of which the latter is neither diverse nor wide. That is, there is no place in such discourse for a heterogeneous variety of artists since, to the contrary, it highlights and praises only certain women, thus rendering invisible many women who played an active role in the field of art.