Saturday, March 12, 2011

Whose Art History Did I Learn?


Women Art Revolution explores the feminist art movement.

This video presents how feminist art gained recognition within art community and how its aesthetics shifted away from statements claimed by US Politicians that ”it is not an art but a pornography”. Via YouTube.

Q: What is feminist art?
A: "The most important artistic movement since World War II" - Blake Gopkin, Washington Post, 2007

Judith F. Baca, "Farewell to Rosie the Riveter and Development of Suburbia,"
detail from The Great Wall of Los Angeles (1983). Photo: Linda Eber. Courtesy of S.P.A.R.C.
   



The Guerilla Girls - an anonymous group of radical feminist artists established in New York City in 1985
Judy Chicago "The Dinner Party,
A monumental, multi-media installation created by Judy Chicago and hundreds of volunteers between 1974 - 1979
Harmony Hammond (American, b. 1944), "Hunkertime", 1979-1980;
Cloth, wood, acrylic, gesso, latex rubber, rhoplex and metal 83 x 286 in



Faith Ringgold "The Flag is Bleeding #2" (1997), Acrylic on Canvas; Painted and Pieced Border, Size: 76"x79.5"

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