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List Of Feminist Avant-garde Artists Of The 1970s
This is a list of feminist avant-garde artists of the 1970s. The initial choice of artists for the list was based on their inclusion in Vienna's Sammlung Verbund, and its internationally-shown exhibition tour ''The Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s: Works from the Sammlung Verbund''. * Helena Almeida (1934–2018, Portugal) * Eleanor Antin (born 1935, USA) * (born 1939, NL) * Lynda Benglis (born 1941, USA) * Judith Bernstein (born 1942, USA) * Renate Bertlmann (born 1943, Austria) * Teresa Burga (born 1935, Peru) * Marcella Campagnano (born 1941, IT) * Judy Chicago (born 1939, USA) * (born 1939, Austria) * Lili Dujourie (born 1941, Belgium) * Mary Beth Edelson (born 1933, USA) * (born 1949, Germany) * Valie Export (born 1940, Austria) * Esther Ferrer (born 1937, Estland) * Lynn Hershman Leeson (born 1941, USA) * Alexis Hunter (1948–2014, USA) * Sanja Iveković (born 1949, Croatia) * Birgit Jürgenssen (1949–2003, Austria) * Kirsten Justesen (born 1943, Denmark) * Ketty La Roc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helena Almeida
Helena Almeida (11 April 1934 – 25 September 2018) was a Portuguese artist known for her work in photography, performance art, body art, painting and drawing. She represented Portugal at the Venice Biennale in 1982 and 2005 and had a solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2017. Early life Almeida was born in Lisbon in 1934. She was the daughter of the sculptor Leopoldo de Almeida (1898–1975). In 1955, Almeida completed the painting course at the Lisbon School of Fine Arts. She married architect Artur Rosa. Their daughter Joana Rosa (artist), Joana Rosa also became an artist. After spending some years raising her family, in 1964 she obtained a scholarship and moved to Paris. Works Almeida exhibited for the first time in 1967. At this exhibit she pioneered the use of three-dimensional elements in her work, a theme she would come back to often in her later pieces. She wanted her work to escape the canvas and intrigue the viewer. Starting in 1969, Almeida defi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ketty La Rocca
Ketty La Rocca (14 July 1938 – 7 February 1976) was an Italian artist during the 1960s and 70s. She was a leading exponent of body art and visual poetry movements. Nowadays, The Estate Ketty La Rocca is managed by her son, Michelangelo Vasta, Professor of Economic History at the Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Siena. Work The art of La Rocca comprises visual poetry, visual art, and performance. She explored language, images, and scenes of the everyday world. She emphasized the imagery of bodies. Beginning in the 1970s she mounted an extensive study of the human hand. She examined their potential for expression. She combined hands and words. She desired to create a different language, a more visceral communion in which the physical body, gestures and the written word were intertwined. In connection with these works La Rocca made specific reference to the female life experience, which had only ascribed certain activities to women’s hands. In 1974, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ewa Partum
Ewa Partum (born 1945, Grodzisk Mazowiecki near Warsaw, Poland) is a poetry artist, performance artist, filmmaker, mail artist, and conceptual artist. Education Beginning in 1963, Partum studied at the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Łódź. She then went to the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 1965, where she studied in the painting department. She gained her diploma for her work with poetry as art, and she received her diploma in 1970. Major works Partum engages in linguistic and performative play in an attempt to discover new artistic language. This search for a "new language" is rooted in her belief that painting has exhausted its potential to generate new or transformative ideas. Partum's work also is motivated by touching on issues such as the notion of public space, the situation of women, female subjectivity and the political context of the 1980s. Partum's work explores issues of female identity, including the gender bias of the art world. At the beginning of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Letícia Parente
Letícia Parente (1930–1991) was a Brazilian visual artist who specialized in politically charged video art. Her surreal short films feature elements of body art and performance art. Much of her work is centered around protesting the use of mass torture by the military dictatorship in Brazil throughout the 1970s. Besides her work in activism and art, Parente also held a PhD in chemistry and never left her scientific career after discovering art. Biography Letícia Parente was born in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil in 1930. While originally pursuing a degree in chemistry, she became interested in art at the age of 41 and studied printing techniques at the Núcleo de Artes e Criatividade in Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, or simply Rio, is the capital of the Rio de Janeiro (state), state of Rio de Janeiro. It is the List of cities in Brazil by population, second-most-populous city in Brazil (after São Paulo) and the Largest cities in the America .... Shortly after, she me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gina Pane
Gina Pane (Biarritz, May 24, 1939 – Paris, March 6, 1990) was a French artist of Italian origins. She studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1960 to 1965, and was a member of the 1970s Body Art movement in France, "Art corporel." Parallel to her art, Pane taught at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Mans from 1975 to 1990 and, at the request of Pontus Hulten, ran an atelier dedicated to performance art at the Centre Pompidou from 1978 to 1979. Pane is possibly best known for her performance piece ''The Conditioning'' (1973), in which she is laid on a metal bed frame over an area of burning candles. ''The Conditioning'' was recreated by Marina Abramović as part of her '' Seven Easy Pieces'' (2005) at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Gina Pane's estate is managed by her former partner Anne Marchand. She is represented by Galerie Kamel Mennour in Paris. Biography Born in Biarritz to Italian parents, Pane spent part of her early life in Italy. She retur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorraine O'Grady
Lorraine O'Grady (September 21, 1934 – December 13, 2024) was an American artist, writer, translator, and critic. Working in conceptual art and performance art that integrates photo and video installation, she explored the cultural construction of identity – particularly that of Black female subjectivity – as shaped by the experience of diaspora and hybridity. O'Grady studied at Wellesley College and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop before becoming an artist at the age of 45. Regarding the purpose of art, O'Grady said in 2016: "I think art's first goal is to remind us that we are human, whatever ''that'' is. I suppose the politics in my art could be to remind us that we are ''all'' human." Life and work O'Grady was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on September 21, 1934, to Jamaican parents, Edwin and Lena O'Grady, who helped establish St. Cyprian's, the first West Indian Episcopal church in Boston. Drawn to the form and aesthetics of the "high church" of nearby ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rita Myers
Rita Myers (born 1947) is an American video installation artist. Her work is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Early life and education Myers was born in Hammonton, New Jersey,. and attended Saint Joseph High School in her hometown. She received a B.A. from Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Jersey and an M.A. from Hunter College Hunter College is a public university in New York City, United States. It is one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York and offers studies in more than one hundred undergraduate and postgraduate fields across five schools ..., New York. Work Shauna Snow writing in the ''Los Angeles Times'' described Myers' "Rift Rise" as "a meditation upon destructive force that incorporates video monitors, music, live trees and mixed media constructions into a confrontation of landscapes". Cathy Curtis in the same newspaper added that "images of destruction (fire, charred tree branches) and renewal (rus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annette Messager
Annette Messager (born 30 November 1943) is a French visual artist. She is known for championing the techniques and materials of outsider art. In 2005, she won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Biennale for her artwork at the French pavilion, French Pavilion. In 2016, she won the prestigious Praemium Imperiale International Arts Award. She lives and works in Malakoff, Hauts-de-Seine, Malakoff, près de Paris France."Annette Messager" , Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Retrieved 24 December 2014. Biography Annette Messager was born on 30 November 1943 in Berck-sur-Mer, France. Her father was a photographer and amateur painter. Between 1962 and 1966, Messager attended the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, France.[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Mendieta
Ana Mendieta (November 18, 1948 – September 8, 1985) was a Cuban-American performance artist, sculptor, painter, and video artist who is best known for her "earth-body" artwork. She is considered one of the most influential Cuban-American artists of the post–World War II era. Born in Havana, Cuba, Mendieta left for the United States in 1961. Mendieta died on September 8, 1985, in New York City, after falling from her 34th-floor apartment. She lived there with her husband of eight months, minimalist sculptor Carl Andre. The circumstances surrounding her death have been the subject of controversy. Early life and exile Mendieta was born on November 18, 1948, in Havana, Cuba, to a wealthy family prominent in the country's politics and society. Her father, Ignacio Alberto Mendieta de Lizáur, was an attorney and the nephew of Carlos Mendieta, who was installed as president by Fulgencio Batista for just under two years. Her mother, Raquel Oti de Rojas, was a chemist, a rese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karin Mack
Karin Mack is an Austrian post-war photo artist, who belongs to the avant-garde feminist art of the 1970s. She is known primarily for generating her themes from very personal introspection and then presenting them as if "in a theater of self-events". Life and career Mack was born in Vienna in 1940, and was married to Friedrich Achleitner (1962-1972). Before completing her studies in the history of art and Italian at the University of Vienna, she worked as a photographer of architecture till 1978. She did several documentaries based on the art and culture of Vienna till 1980. From 1977 to 1982, she was involved in the group "Intakt" (International Action Group for Women Artists) to improve the situation of women artists. In 1994, Mack moved to the Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzy Lake
Suzy Lake (born June 24, 1947) is an American-Canadian artist based in Toronto, Canada, who is known for her work as a photographer, performance artist and video producer. Using a range of media, Lake explores topics including identity, beauty, gender and aging. She is regarded as a pioneering feminist artist and a staunch political activist. Life Lake was born June 24, 1947, in Detroit, Michigan."Suzy Lake", in ''Contemporary Canadian Artists'', Gale Canada, 1997, editor Roger Matuz She began her fine art studies at Wayne State University and Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan, from 1965 to 1968. During this period, she became involved with the anti-war and civil rights movements of the 1960s. She also witnessed the Detroit Race Riots of 1967. Soon after, in 1968 Lake immigrated to Canada with her husband to escape the Vietnam War draft. Settling in Montreal, she found herself amidst social upheaval as a result of the Quiet Revolution. Originally a pain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
