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feminism, feminist art, exhibition, abstraction, art education

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Following an introduction from the editors of Art-Rite are 12 essays by Judy Chicago discussing feminist art history, academic perspectives, contested issues, projects and exhibitions, and 18 monographs on specific artists, plus two fictional pieces.

art history, criticism, gender, contemporary, feminism, joan mitchell, judy chicago, faith ringgold, louise bourgeois, adrian piper, eva hesse, performance

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Biography of significant Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954).

painting, self portraiture

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Illustrated feminist overview of women artists from the Middle Ages to the late 20th century, practising predominantly in Europe, United Kingdom and the United States.

painting, sculpture, performance, feminism, collage

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Sixteen illustrated essays by various writers on the works and practice of women surrealists working in Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States in the 20th century.

surrealism, merit openheim, leonora carrington, valentine hugo, remedios varo, leonor fini, elléouët

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Illustrated, extensively researched overview of O'Keeffe's life and practice including images of works, photographs by her partner Stieglitz, letters and interviews.

painting, abstraction, watercolour

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Illustrated overview of women artists from 5th - 20th century including European, British and American artists. A chapter on Chinese artists states that Chinese women's contribution to the arts ' beginning around 3000 BC.'

painting, portraiture, sculpture, textiles, photography

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Professor of Art Linda Nochlin, and critic and art historian Thomas B. Hess respond to the question "Why have there been no great women artists?'. Nochlin writes of 'the women question' in art and beyond, addressing barriers in education and art schools negating full participation or studying the nude, the limiting definitions of 'greatness', domestic demands and class, and maintains it is the institutional structures that are the key to equality, and it is these which should be challenged and reformed. Hess addresses wrong attribution, the studio system, the relative freedoms in the Middle Ages before the Renaissance emphasised the male genius ideal and self confidence. Ten replies from artists follow, mainly responding to Nochlin's treatise. Elizabeth Baker, writes the final essay, charting the changes in regards to representation including issues surrounding quotas, recognition, the debates surrounding the contested definitions of female and feminist artists.and the frequent lack of support by female dealers, critics and curators.

essays, feminism, studio practce, art history, gender, politics, discrimination, museolgy, curatorship, identity

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A history of Australian women artists, the lives and practice of 24 women are covered to redress their absence in critical and art historical records.

painting, water colour, portraiture, print making

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Traces three periods of Hanrahan's practice: early development; first major period of printmaking 1963 to 1967 and her second since 1967. Focuses on major themes and motifs and contains a small proportion of images made since 1960, many exploring her family and womens' lives. These themes and the tactile quality of her practice are woven into her 9 published novels, and text often appears in the prints. Includes list of solo exhibitions, a bibliography and biographical details.

printmaking, lithography, etching, linocut, screenprinting, wood engraving, writing, sexuality, family, identity, drypoint, popular culture, body, motherhood, ageing, gender

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Explores the lives, ideas and artworks of women in the Surrealist Movement including Frida Kahlo, Meret Oppenheim Dorothea Tanning and Leonora Carrington, alongside their more well-known male counterparts.

painting, drawing, collage, photography, surrealism

fiction

A satirical illustrated tale of artist Hephzibah Brown who is persuaded by Cedric the Imp of Perversity to follow him to the recently independent Ghana to compose a tourist book he will write and she illustrate. She follows him but changes it to a novel about two tourists, one pragmatic and one an idealistic, a woman, to examine "real life'' being a form of transience.

collage, drawing, travelogue, weaving, sexuality, satire, writing

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Published in Italy in 1979 exploring the theme of women and sexuality these diverse images reveal how women see themselves, their bodies and their changing roles, characterised by inventiveness, intimacy and sensuality.

portraiture, body, colour photograpy, erotica

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Analysis of late 19th century American and European writing, art, science and philosophy exploring cultural misogyny. Discusses the attitude to women as having only sexual and reproductive roles and being depicted as symbols of evil, passivity and sensuality, and ever dependent, while men were free to follow financially independent public and intellectual lives.

painting, feminism, sexuality, violence, symbolism, mythology, motherhood, darwinism, pre-raphaelites

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An illustrated autobiography of South Australian artist Barbara Leslie born 1940. Painter and illustrator Leslie charts her life through three sections. Book 1: letters to her best friend Marilyn; Book 2: written to her inner child; Book 3: a diary format after Merilyn's death.

south australian bushfires, art school, drawing, family

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Monograph on contemporary South Australian artist Annette Bezor.

gender, oil painting, essay, sexuality, identity, digital art, portraiture, laser prints

Brightly designed record of posters, pamphlets, vintage books, film promos and comics

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Documents the ephemera used in the USA to warn against the threat of Communism

communism, propaganda, posters, magazines, comics, vintage, pulp fiction

Black and white text on cover and throughout

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Overview of funded and non-funded organisations focused on women's rights, and the diversity of the South Australian Women's Liberation Movement through interviews and social history.

suffrage, voting rights, violence, communism, activism, pascifism

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Women interior decorators of the 1920s and 30s and their contribution to the Arts and Crafts movement in Britain, The Glasgow School of Art and The Bauhaus School..

industrial design, craft, wallpaper, weaving, furniture, design theory, architecture