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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.
This is a list of feminist artists. The list includes artists who have played a role in the feminist art movement which largely stemmed from second-wave feminism . [ 1 ]
Feminist art is a category of art associated with the feminist movement of the late 1960s and 1970s. Feminist art highlights the societal and political differences women experience in their lives. The goal of this art form is to bring a positive and understanding change to the world, leading to equality or liberation. [1]
This category lists artists in the visual arts who have expressed support for feminism. Some of the people listed here are involved in the feminist art movement and/or have created feminist works. NOTE: Feminist musicians, formerly included in this category, are being transferred to Category:Feminist musicians. Please help by moving remaining ...
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 ...
Broude, Norma and Mary Garrard, The Power of Feminist Art: Emergence, Impact and Triumph of the American Feminist Art Movement. New York, Abrams, 1994. Butler, Connie, WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art. 2007. Chicago, Judy. Beyond the Flower: The Autobiography of a Feminist Artist. New York: Viking ...
Liberal feminism aims to make society and law gender-neutral, since it sees recognition of gender difference as a barrier to rights and participation within liberal democracy, while difference feminism holds that gender-neutrality harms women "whether by impelling them to imitate men, by depriving society of their distinctive contributions, or ...
National Women's History Project; Arts: Search; Art and Feminism (book) The Reckoning: Women Artists of the New Millennium (book) After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art (book) Sophia Smith Collection, Women's History Archives at Smith College; n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal; Getty Union List of Artist Names ...