«There has been increasing interest in the position of female artists of the past, and the fact that Carol Rama combined issues of sexuality and abstraction in what was and to a large extent remains a male -
dominated cultural field has to be acknowledged as being of great significance to cultural production today,» she says.
The
dominating role of men in these
fields, combined with the social and
cultural conditions of the early twentieth century, precipitated a domestic design that was gendered masculine — and heterosexual.