A day of findings: Art Radio. Art and the feminist revolution.
Kirsten Justesen, Sculpture II, 1968, painted cardboard box, photograph.
What Is Feminist Art? (no Washington Post)
(a) An interesting chapter in art history, now closed.
(b) Special pleading for mediocre artists.
(c) A souvenir left behind by 1960s counterculture.
(d) The most important artistic movement since World War II.
The correct answer is d.
More than any other 20th-century movement, feminism pushed back against the art-for-art's-sake attitudes of modernist abstraction. It pushed instead for work that talked about crucial issues in the world outside. Ever since feminism, in all areas of artmaking, the message has mattered as much as the medium.
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Wack! art and the feminist revolution
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4 comments:
Mudaste para aqui... pois aqui estou...
Bj e bom fim de semana ;)
http://sol.sapo.pt/blogs/RosaBrava/default.aspx
Querida meia, boa semana.
Beijos com saudades
Cristina
C sobretudo C....
"Post critic Blake Gopnik argues that feminism is the most important artistic movement since World War II. Feminism, he writes, made the message matter as much as the medium", não fui eu que disse, claro.. beijo.
Cristina, para ti também!
Ana
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