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Feminist art criticism is a smaller subgroup in the larger realm of feminist theory, because feminist theory seeks to explore the themes of discrimination, sexual objectification, oppression, patriarchy, and stereotyping, feminist art criticism attempts similar exploration.
The first wave of feminist art was established in the mid-19th century. After women gained suffrage in the United States in the early 1920s, a wave of liberalization spread throughout the world, leading to gradual changes in feminist art. The slow and gradual change in feminist art started gaining momentum in 1960s. [8]
This is a list of feminist art critics. The list includes art critics that "reflect a woman's consciousness about women" [ 1 ] and who have played a role in the feminist art movement . It includes second-wave and third-wave feminist critics.
Feminist art history, Feminist art movement in the United States: Art historian, art critic, and founder of the Los Angeles Woman's Building: Hilla Rebay: German, American 1890–1967 Modern art Co-founder and first director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, abstract artist, art collector Günsel Renda: Turkish Ottoman art Professor Trina ...
By providing examples of paintings of women’s’ bodies brutally depicted she is able to justify her criticism of the supposed “originality” of the modernist nude. [8] Her 1975 essay, "When Greatness is a Box of Wheaties" is considered a key text of feminist art history, articulating the feminist critique of genius in art. [9]
While art history and art criticism overlap as disciplines, we usually tend to think of the latter as writing the first draft of the former.
The feminist art movement in the 1980s and 1990s built upon the foundations laid by earlier feminist art movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Feminist artists throughout this time period aimed to question and undermine established gender roles, confront issues of gender injustice, and give voice to women's experiences in the arts and society at large.
The absence of women from the canon of Western art has been a subject of inquiry and reconsideration since the early 1970s. Linda Nochlin's influential 1971 essay, "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?", examined the social and institutional barriers that blocked most women from entering artistic professions throughout history, prompted a new focus on women artists, their art and ...