Wednesday, 18 March 2009

(1960s - 1970s) Feminist Art

Carolee Schneemann Performing
Interior Scroll. Photography by
Anthony McCall

The feminist art movement refers to the efforts and accomplishments of feminists internationally to make art that reflects women's lives and experiences. It was also there to make women more noticeable in art history. The movement began in the late 1960s and continued throughout the 1970s, its effects continue to the present. The strength of the feminist movement allowed for the emergence and visibility of many new types of work by women, but also including a whole range of new practices by men.
A small number of mostly American women, among the many thousands associated with feminist art, are artists


Judy Chicago


Miriam Schapiro


Suzanne Lacy


Faith Wilding


Martha Rosler


Mary Kelly


Kate Millett


Nancy Spero


Faith Ringgold


June Wayne


Sheila Levrant de Bretteville


Dara Birnbaum


Lucy Lippard


Griselda Pollock


Arlene Raven


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