Becoming Leonor Fini
Andrea Kollnitz, Professor of Art History, has written a monograph on the surrealist artist Leonor Fini and her self-representations.
The book title is Becoming Leonor Fini: Theatrical Self-Performances between Art and Life.
Exploring her self-fashioning and dressing-up practices in light of recent theories of performativity, this book highlights how Fini's extension of artistic creative practices, from painted artworks to her self-creation through costumes, masks and fashion, allowed her to become a living artwork to be created and recreated on daily basis. Applying a multisensory methodology, the book explores Fini's personal theatricality, photographic self-portraits and self-transformative, genderbending, transgressive dressing-up games in relation to surrealist practices, showcasing the hybrid identities that made up Fini's overall character.
Andrea Kollnitz. Photo: Johanna Säll / Stockholm University
Andrea Kollnitz is Professor and head of Art history at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics. Her research is focussed on themes as art and nationalism, art- and fashion discourses during the early 20th century, the Nordic avant-garde from transnational perspectives, the avant-garde artist's role, artists' self-fashioning, connections between fashion and art during modernism, fashion photography and fashion image.
Last updated: 2025-12-16
Source: Department of Culture and Aesthetics