Week 7 Lecture Notes
This Lecture examined how gender difference and feminism have influenced politics, art, society and social networks.
The main theme was !W.A.R. (!Women Art Revolution), a feminist film that explores the role of women during the political instabilities in 1960/70 America.
-For over forty years, Director Lynn Hershman
Leeson has collected hundreds of hours of interviews with visionary artists,
historians, curators and critics who shaped the beliefs and values of the
Feminist Art Movement and reveal previously undocumented strategies used to
politicize female artists and integrate women into art structures.
!Women
Art Revolution elaborates the relationship of the Feminist
Art Movement to the 1960s anti-war and civil rights movements and explains how
historical events, such as the all-male protest exhibition against the invasion
of Cambodia, sparked the first of many feminist actions against major cultural
institutions. The film details major developments in women’s art of the 1970s,
including the first feminist art education programs, political organizations
and protests, alternative art spaces such as the A.I.R. Gallery and Franklin
Furnace in New York and the Los Angeles Women’s Building, publications such
as Chrysalis and Heresies, and landmark
exhibitions, performances, and installations of public art that changed the
entire direction of art.
New
ways of thinking about the complexities of gender, race, class, and sexuality
evolved. The Guerrilla Girls emerged as the conscience of the art world and
held academic institutions, galleries, and museums accountable for
discrimination practices. Over time, the tenacity and courage of these
pioneering women artists resulted in what many historians now feel is the most
significant art movement of the late 20th century.-
The
site: http://womenartrevolution.com/
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