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The Hackney Flashers were a collective of broadly socialist-feminist women who produced notable agitprop exhibitions in the 1970s and early 1980s. [1] Working in the United Kingdom during second wave feminism (1960s–1980s), the Hackney Flashers are an example of collectives prevalent in the latter half of the 20th century that worked to raise consciousness of social or political issues ...
Exploring artistic responses to a changing era, the exhibition showcases the works of UK female artists between 1970 and 1990 Exploring two decades of British feminist art: Women in Revolt! opens ...
Geri Miller (born April 27, 1942) is an American former go-go dancer and actress. She was a dancer at New York's Peppermint Lounge in the 1960s and appeared in sexploitation films before becoming part of pop artist Andy Warhol's Factory crowd.
In one of her early works, the cover art for the 1977 single release of "Orgasm Addict" by the punk band the Buzzcocks, [12] the collage depicts a naked woman with an iron for a head and grinning mouths instead of nipples. [12] "At this point, men's magazines were either DIY, cars or porn. Women's magazines were fashion or domestic stuff.
Curtis then starred alongside transgender Warhol superstars Candy Darling and Holly Woodlawn in Women in Revolt (1971), which satirizes the Women's Liberation Movement and alludes to Valerie Solanas and her SCUM Manifesto. [2] Warhol said of Curtis, "Jackie Curtis is not a drag queen. Jackie is an artist. A pioneer without a frontier."
3/5 Laura Knight and Artemisia Gentileschi feature among a vast array of little-known female artists in this expansive survey at Tate Britain, but some of the work on display only underlines the ...
Known primarily for her figurative paintings, Jacqueline Morreau's work is often discussed in relation to the feminist art movement. [3] [4] Together with Joyce Agee, Sarah Kent and Pat Whiteread, Morreau organised the touring exhibition 'Women's Images of Men' which opened at the ICA in 1980 and went on to tour across Britain at a number of Galleries including the Arnolfini. [5]
In response to the 1971 Art and Technology exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), an ad hoc group of women organized, calling themselves the Los Angeles Council of Women Artists. They researched the number of women included in exhibitions at LACMA and issued a June 15, 1971 report, in which they protested sexual inequality ...