摘要：With optimism, Miranda Goeltom, then chair of The Indonesian Arts Foundation, penned the foreword for Indonesia's first book on women artists, Indonesian Women Artists: The Curtain Opens. She described the book as an ‘historic step to record, recognise and present the works of our inspired and talented women artists and art writers to a wider audience both here and abroad’.1. Miranda Goeltom, ‘Foreword’ in Indonesian Women Artists: The Curtain Opens, ed. Carla Bianpoen (Jakarta: Indonesian Arts Foundation, 2007), 6.View all notes Like other feminist-inspired texts, this first major survey on the lives and works of Indonesia's ‘most prominent women artists from the early twentieth century to the present’,2. Ibid., 6.View all notes aimed to show precisely that women artists were present and they were active within national circles.
