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Physical description:
511 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Date:
2007
C2007
20th century
Notes:
"Accompanies the exhibition "WACK! Art and the feminist revolution," organized by Cornelia Butler and presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 4 March-16 July 2007"--T.p. verso.
Exhibition also held at 3 other venues through Jan. 18, 2009.
Contents:
Art and feminism : an ideology of shifting criteria / Cornelia Butler -- Plates -- Artist biographies -- Chronology through cartography : mapping 1970s feminist art globally / Marsha Meskimmon -- The woman who never was : self-representation, photography, and first-wave feminist art / Abigail Solomon-Godeau -- The returns of touch : feminist performances, 1960-80 / Peggy Phelan -- Hard targets : male bodies, feminist art, and the force of censorship in the 1970s / Richard Meyer -- Voices and images of Italian feminism / Judith Russi Kirshner -- Abundant evidence : Black women artists of the 1960s and 70s / Valerie Smith -- Fugitive identities and dissenting code-systems : women artists during the military dictatorship in Chile / Nelly Richard -- Painting with ambivalence / Helen Molesworth -- Their memory is playing tricks on her : notes toward a calligraphy of rage / Catherine Lord -- The feminist nomad : the all-women group show / Jenni Sorkin -- Selected chronology of all-women group exhibitions, 1943-83
