ART AND FEMINISM According to Lee Krasner, the art world in New York in the late 1930s was an egalitarian place. Discrimination arrived in the persons of the French Surrealists, renowned misogynists, who considered women to be children or muses. In the 1940s, the few...
THE IMPACT OF FEMINIST ART To examine the impact of feminist art upon mainstream art is to examine the long list of what was excluded or forbidden in the art world. For those outside this world, artists appear to be daring avant-garde experimenters, but nothing could...
MODERN FEMINISM The Historical Context Modern feminism is essentially a product of the emancipation of women during the Second World War. Women were once again called into the work force but for a longer period of time and over a greater part of the population than...
FEMINIST ART Part One Voices of the Other “…one is not born, but rather one becomes a woman…its is civilization as a whole that produces this creature…” Simone de Beauvoir What is “feminism?” What is “Feminist Art History?” What is “Feminist Art?” From the...
THE PHILOSOPHY OF CONCEPTUAL ART PART TWO “Art is art. Everything else is everything else.” Ad Reinhardt The artist, Joseph Kosuth, insisted that Conceptual Art was a child of the 1960s, not the Civil Rights sixties, not the Stonewall sixties, not the...
