I am pretty sure the Guerilla
Girls are still at it on and off. See their recent
work:http://www.guerrillagirls.com/posters/index.shtml
The Sackler Center for Feminist Art is also an excellent resource. They have a
terrific digital slide library. You might give them a call and let them know
your situation and questions, and see if they can help.
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/about/staff.php
There's 2 key moments in feminism as it's been theorized art-historically:
"feminist art", associated with the 1970s (read as "essentialist" by its
critics); and its critique in the later 1970s and 80s (from a
deconstructionist/post-structuarlist perspective)
There are a few key texts that articulate this shift:
Lucy Lippard, a key figure initially associated with the former, wrote a great
retrospective discussion of changing ideas: see her, . “Both Sides Now: A
Reprise.” in The Pink Glass Swan: Selected Essays on Feminist Art (Routledge,
2003)
Helen Molesworth's amazing essay, “House Work and Art Work.” October vol. 92
(Spring, 2000): 71-97, which talks about (and shows important connections
between) the two works often upheld as the key examples of "essentialist" and
"poststructuralist" feminism: Judy Chicago's "Dinner Party" (visit the Sackler
Center for Feminist art website for pics), and Mary Kelly's "Post-Partum
Document"
A more challenging essay from the poststructuralist point of view, see the essay
by Craig Owens (one of my favorite art historians, who died of AIDS) “The
Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism.” In Hal Foster, The
Anti-Aesthetic (Bay Press, 1983).
Another awesome resource for images and some texts is the major exhibition
catalog "Wack!: Art and the Feminist Revolution" (MIT Press, 2007).
For more recent perspectives see:
Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art. (exh. cat) Brooklyn
Museum, 2007
and the book by Catherine de Zegher and Carol Armstrong, Women Artists at the
Millenium, MIT Press, 2006
Hope this helps!
Girls are still at it on and off. See their recent
work:http://www.
The Sackler Center for Feminist Art is also an excellent resource. They have a
terrific digital slide library. You might give them a call and let them know
your situation and questions, and see if they can help.
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/
There's 2 key moments in feminism as it's been theorized art-historically:
"feminist art", associated with the 1970s (read as "essentialist" by its
critics); and its critique in the later 1970s and 80s (from a
deconstructionist/post-
There are a few key texts that articulate this shift:
Lucy Lippard, a key figure initially associated with the former, wrote a great
retrospective discussion of changing ideas: see her, . “Both Sides Now: A
Reprise.” in The Pink Glass Swan: Selected Essays on Feminist Art (Routledge,
2003)
Helen Molesworth's amazing essay, “House Work and Art Work.” October vol. 92
(Spring, 2000): 71-97, which talks about (and shows important connections
between) the two works often upheld as the key examples of "essentialist" and
"poststructuralist" feminism: Judy Chicago's "Dinner Party" (visit the Sackler
Center for Feminist art website for pics), and Mary Kelly's "Post-Partum
Document"
A more challenging essay from the poststructuralist point of view, see the essay
by Craig Owens (one of my favorite art historians, who died of AIDS) “The
Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism.” In Hal Foster, The
Anti-Aesthetic (Bay Press, 1983).
Another awesome resource for images and some texts is the major exhibition
catalog "Wack!: Art and the Feminist Revolution" (MIT Press, 2007).
For more recent perspectives see:
Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art. (exh. cat) Brooklyn
Museum, 2007
and the book by Catherine de Zegher and Carol Armstrong, Women Artists at the
Millenium, MIT Press, 2006
Hope this helps!
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