Feminist Avant-Garde: Art of the 1970s in the Verbund Collection, Vienna

Now available again in an expanded edition and featuring a variety of work from artists both well-known and under the radar, this volume explores the pioneering achievements of the Feminist Avant-Garde.

For art history, the 1970s represent the beginning of women subverting culturally and socially established constructions and traditional norms. Second-wave feminism, with its slogan “The personal is political”, challenged the one-dimensional roles assigned to women—mother, housewife, and spou...