The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970's, History and Impact

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Since its inception nearly 25 years ago the Feminist Art movement has presented a challenge to mainstream modernism that has radically transformed the art world. In The Power of Feminist Art, coeditors Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard, professors of art history at The American University in Washington, D.C., bring together many of the influential art historians, critics, and artists who participated in the events of the 1970s. Together, they have created this landmark volume, the first history and analysis ...
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Since its inception nearly 25 years ago the Feminist Art movement has presented a challenge to mainstream modernism that has radically transformed the art world. In The Power of Feminist Art, coeditors Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard, professors of art history at The American University in Washington, D.C., bring together many of the influential art historians, critics, and artists who participated in the events of the 1970s. Together, they have created this landmark volume, the first history and analysis documenting this fertile and dynamic period of artistic growth. We learn about the first feminist art education programs, with artists Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro helping to lay the foundation; about the now legendary Womanhouse project; and about such banner exhibitions as "Women Artists: 1550-1950," organized in 1976 by art historians Linda Nochlin and Ann Sutherland Harris. We follow the development of the movement as seen in the various feminist organizations, networks, exhibitions, and publications it generated; and most particularly in the emergence of feminist art. Performance art, social protest and public art, and collaboration; exploration of such formerly taboo aesthetic areas as "Pattern and Decoration"; and subjects such as divinity and the body viewed from female perspectives are among the multiple aspects of the Feminist Art movement. The last section of the book traces the ups and downs of the movement, as experienced through the backlash of the 1980s and the resurgence of women's issues in the 1990s. Uncompromising, probing, thoughtful, and as provocative and exciting as the period itself, The Power of Feminist Art is an immensely stunning book. Reproductions of hundreds of works of feminist art from the 1970s and beyond - by such artists as Judith Baca, Harmony Hammond, Joyce Kozloff, Barbara Kruger, Ana Mendieta, Alice Neel, Faith Ringgold, Betye Saar, Miriam Schapiro, Cindy Sherman, Nancy Spero, May Stevens, and Hannah Wilke - and the
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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
Collection of essays exploring various aspects of the feminist art movement. (Nov.)
Library Journal
With 245 illustrations (118 in color), this work boasts a partisan but invaluable recounting of the U.S. feminist art movement of the 1970s. Most of the 18 contributors to the handsome, large-format volume are prominent first-generation feminist artists/historians, including Judy Chicago, Miriam Schapiro, Arlene Raven, and Linda Nochlin. Editors Broude and Garrard provide a 1990s deconstructivist overview of the times, as well as individual essays. Their evidence shows that the movement was distinct from postmodernism, involving collaborative social and political acts of feminist consciousness-raising and not limiting itself to the problem of essentialism. Essays address the 1980s backlash against feminism, reevaluating the reasons for its controversial and still-shocking image-making. The notes and bibliography are excellent. Highly recommended.-Mary Hamel-Schwulst, Towson State Univ., Md.
Donna Seaman
This comprehensive consideration of a watershed period in women's history and the history of art begins with the key question, What is feminist art? and then answers it thoroughly and invigoratingly. Feminist artists were the first to make art that deliberately depicted the "socialized experience of women," that is, the reality and impact of gender role restrictions, sexism, and misogyny. The 18 contributors to this well-illustrated volume--including two of the movement's primary figures, Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro, and art historians Norma Broude, Mary Garrard, Linda Nochlin, and Moira Roth--credit feminist art, and feminist art activism, with opening museum and art-school doors, and the pages of art-history texts, not only to women artists and their work, but also to artists of color and diverse ethnic orientations. Feminist artists also legitimized performance and video art and revitalized figurative imagery, portraiture, and decorative art. The volume's engaging essays--accompanied by photographs of artists and critics, artworks, and events--analyze various aspects of feminist art, the work of specific artists, and the legacy of this highly charged and influential movement.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780810937321
  • Publisher: Abrams, Harry N., Inc.
  • Publication date: 10/10/1994
  • Pages: 320
  • Product dimensions: 9.46 (w) x 11.89 (h) x 1.42 (d)

Table of Contents

Contributors 6
Preface and Acknowledgments 8
Introduction: Feminism and Art in the Twentieth Century 10
Pt. I Seeds of Change: Feminist Art and Education in the Early Seventies
The Feminist Art Programs at Fresno and CalArts, 1970-75 32
Womanhouse 48
Conversations with Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro 66
Pt. II Building a Network: Feminist Activism in the Arts
Feminist Politics: Networks and Organizations 88
Exhibitions, Galleries, and Alternative Spaces 104
Writing (and Righting) Wrongs: Feminist Art Publications 120
Starting from Scratch: The Beginnings of Feminist Art History 130
Pt. III Challenging Modernism: The Facets of Feminist Art
Social Protest: Racism and Sexism 140
Feminist Performance Art: Performing, Discovering, Transforming Ourselves 158
Recovering Her Story: Feminist Artists Reclaim the Great Goddess 174
The Body Through Women's Eyes 190
The Pattern and Decoration Movement 208
Collaboration 226
Pt. IV Beyond the Seventies: The Impact of Feminist Art
Backlash and Appropriation 248
Affinities: Thoughts on an Incomplete History 264
The Feminist Continuum: Art After 1970 276
Notes 289
Selected Bibliography 300
Illustrated Time Line 305
Index 309
Photograph Credits 319
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