Sexual Politics

Alanis Morisette

Alanis Morisette
http://quotes.whyfame.com/alanis-morisette-about-eating-disorder-76
"I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament." - Alanis Morissette

Worksheet #10 Due

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Whitney Protestors

Ann Arien & Lucy Lippard protesting in front of the Whitney Museum of Art in 1970, demanding a 50% representation of womenand nonwhite artists in the Whitney Annual.
Broude, Norma and Mary D. Garrard ed. The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970s, History and Impact. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1994.
Key events that launched the Feminist art movement in the U.S.
1968
Young feminists protest Miss America pageant by throwing their bras into trash can (NOT burning them!)
Valerie Solanas writes the SCUM Manifesto and shoots Andy Warhol and Mario Amaya for losing her manuscript, Up Your Ass
1969
Whitney Annual included 8 women out of 143 artists
1970
Women artists protest the Whitney Annual
Survey reveals that 50% of practicing American artists are women while only 18% of New York's commercial galleries show the work of women artists
Judy Chicago founds the first feminist studio art course at Fresno State University
Los Angeles Council of Women Artists protest exclusion of women artists in LACMA show Art and Technology
First publication of Our Bodies, Ourselves
1971
Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro found Feminist Art Program at Cal Arts
Linda Nochlin's "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists" published

Womanhouse catalog

Womanhouse catalog

1972
Congress passes Equal Rights Amendment; but by 1982 it had only been ratified by 35 states (three short of becming law); has been reintroduced into every session of Congress since
LACMA exhibit - Four Los Angeles Artists
Womanhouse - first feminist exhibition
1973
Supreme Court legalizes abortion in Roe v. Wade
1976
Linda Nochlin and Ann Sutherland Harris curate first historical exhibition of women artists at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art -
Women Artists: 1550 - 1950
1979
U.S. National Weather Service begins naming storms for women and men

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chief concerns of Second Wave Feminism

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Sylvia Sleigh.  The Turkish Bath.  1973.
Butler, Cornelia.  WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution.  Los Angeles:
The Museum of Contemporary Art, 2007.

Gain full social and economic equality
Reveal and question society's definition of women's roles
To use collaboration to undermine the authority of patriarchy
To examine the natural processes of the body long disregarded by western culture
To express (finally) the woman's identity
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Priss

Kim Dingle.  Priss Room.  1994.
http://www.renaissancesociety.org/site/files/media/683/1996_dingle_prissroom_n.jpg
Feminist questioned and attacked Greenbergian formalism
Openly encouraged artists to explore autobiography,
narrative and personal identity
Advocated collaboration
Optimistically explored new media
 
"The personal is political" - Carol Hanisch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Boxing Ring (exhibition advertisement)

Judy Chicago. Boxing Ring (exhibition advertisement). 1970.
Warr, Tracey and Amelia Jones ed. The Artist's Body. London: Phaidon Press Ltd., 2000.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sheet Closet

Sandra Orgel. Sheet Closet.  1972.
http://www.fresnoalliance.com/home/images/Sheet_Closet.jpg
The Feminist Art Program
was an experiment in teaching
 
Participants engaged in consciousness raising sessions
Collaboration was encouraged with the intention of forming a community
Only women allowed in the classroom and studio
 
 
Womanhouse 1972
theme = women's work
aimed to "search out and reveal the female experience...the dreams and fantasies of women as they sewed, cooked, washed and ironed awyay their lives." - Judy Chicago

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Womb Room
Susan Frazier. Nurturant Kitchen. 1972.
http://linda.poling.com/kitchen.JPG
Faith Wilding. Womb Room. 1972.
Chicago. Menstruation Bathroom. 1972.
Broude, Norma and Mary D. Garrard ed. The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970s, History and Impact. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1994.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Judy Chicago. The Dinner Party. 1974 - 79.
http://www.askyfilledwithshootingstars.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/000-Judy-Chicago-The-Dinner-Party-Insatllation-Overview-2-at-Brooklyn-Museum.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

setting for Judith
https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/dinner_party/place_settings/judith.php

setting for Mary Wollstonecraft
https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/dinner_party/place_settings/mary_wollstonecraft.php

setting for Virginia Woolf
https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/dinner_party/place_settings/virginia_woolf.php
More place settings
"A central core, my vagina, that which made me a woman" - Chicago