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...
THE PHILOSOPHY OF MINIMAL ART PART ONE To discuss the relationships of artists to any particular philosopher or to discuss the relationship of any work of art to philosophy is to enter upon dangerous ground. First, artists are not philosophers. They may study...
ART AS IDEA—IDEA AS ART At mid-century, the question of what is art? was raised again for the first time since Emmanuel Kant wrote the Critique of Judgment in 1781. Starting in the mid-fifties, Neo-Dada art and Minimal Art challenged the presumed Modernist...
ART OF THE ENVIRONMENT One of the last important “movements,” Earth Art or Environmental Art or Land Art, was an inevitable extension of Minimal Art and Process Art. Combining elements of both movements, Earth Art moved art out of the galleries and museums, often...
