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West-East Bag
West-East Bag (WEB) was an international women artists network active from 1971 to 1973. West-East Bag formed towards the beginning of the feminist art movement in the United States. Sources differ as to the exact origin of WEB. In one account, artists Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro formed the idea with art critic Lucy R. Lippard in April 1971 after visiting the exhibition ''26 Women Artists''. A second account places ''New York Times'' art writer Grace Glueck at the formation and a third has Chicago and Schapiro meeting Lippard, Marcia Tucker and Ellen Lanyon during a lecture trip. Lippard recalls mentioning East Coast Bag while talking to Chicago, who replied "ah ha, if you're going to say East Coast Bag then we're going to call it West East Bag instead of East West Bag, because the west coast came first." In 1971, West-East Bag published the first issue of their newsletter ''W.E.B.'' to link efforts in their home cities. The inaugural issue made mention of tactics used aga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women Artists
The absence of women from the canon of Western culture, Western Art history, art has been a subject of inquiry and reconsideration since the early 1970s. Linda Nochlin's influential 1971 essay, "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?", examined the social and institutional barriers that blocked most women from entering artistic professions throughout history, prompted a new focus on women artists, their art and experiences, and contributed inspiration to the feminist art movement in the United States, Feminist art movement. Although women artists have been involved in the making of art throughout history, their work, when compared to that of their male counterparts, has been often obfuscated, overlooked and undervalued. The Western canon has historically valued men's work over women's and attached gendered stereotypes to certain media, such as Textile arts, textile or fiber arts, to be primarily associated with women.Aktins, Robert"Feminist art."''Museum of Contemporary A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feminist Art Movement In The United States
The feminist art movement in the United States began in the early 1970s and sought to promote the study, creation, understanding and promotion of women's art. First-generation feminist artists include Judy Chicago, Miriam Schapiro, Suzanne Lacy, Judith Bernstein, Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, Sheila de Bretteville, Mary Beth Edelson, Carolee Schneeman, Rachel Rosenthal, and many other women. They were part of the Feminist art movement in the United States in the early 1970s to develop feminist writing and art. The movement spread quickly through museum protests in both New York City (May 1970) and Los Angeles (June 1971), via an early network called W.E.B. (West-East Bag) that disseminated news of feminist art activities from 1971 to 1973 in a nationally circulated newsletter, and at conferences such as the West Coast Women's Artists Conference held at California Institute of the Arts (January 21–23, 1972) and the Conference of Women in the Visual Arts, at the Corcoran School ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judy Chicago
Judy Chicago (born Judith Sylvia Cohen; July 20, 1939) is an American feminist artist, art educator, and writer known for her large collaborative art installation pieces about birth and creation images, which examine the role of women in history and culture. During the 1970s, Chicago founded the first feminist art program in the United States at California State University, Fresno (formerly Fresno State College), which acted as a catalyst for feminist art and art education during the 1970s. Her inclusion in hundreds of publications in various areas of the world showcases her influence in the worldwide art community. Many of her books have also been published in other countries, making her work more accessible to international readers. Chicago's work incorporates a variety of artistic skills, such as needlework, counterbalanced with skills such as welding and pyrotechnics. Her most well-known work is '' The Dinner Party'', which is permanently installed in the Elizabeth A. Sackler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miriam Schapiro
Miriam Schapiro (also known as Mimi) (November 15, 1923 – June 20, 2015) was a Canadian-born artist based in the United States. She was a painter, sculptor, printmaker, and a pioneer of feminist art. She was also considered a leader of the Pattern and Decoration art movement. Schapiro's artwork blurs the line between fine art and craft. She incorporated craft elements into her paintings due to their association with women and femininity. Schapiro's work touches on the issue of feminism and art: especially in the aspect of feminism in relation to abstract art. Schapiro honed in her domesticated craft work and was able to create work that stood amongst the rest of the high art. These works represent Schapiro's identity as an artist working in the center of contemporary abstraction and simultaneously as a feminist being challenged to represent women's "consciousness" through imagery. She often used icons that are associated with women, such as hearts, floral decorations, geometri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy R
Lucy is an English feminine given name derived from the Latin masculine given name Lucius with the meaning ''as of light'' (''born at dawn or daylight'', maybe also ''shiny'', or ''of light complexion''). Alternative spellings are Luci, Luce, Lucie, Lucia, and Luzia. The English Lucy surname is taken from the Norman language that was Latin-based and derives from place names in Normandy based on the Latin male personal name Lucius. It was transmitted to England after the Norman Conquest in the 11th century (see also De Lucy). Feminine name variants *Luíseach ( Irish) *Lusine, Լուսինե, Լուսինէ (Armenian) *Lucija, Луција (Serbian) *Lucy, Люси ( Bulgarian) *Lutsi, Луци (Macedonian) *Lutsija, Луција (Macedonian) *Liùsaidh (Scottish Gaelic) *Liucija ( Lithuanian) *Liucilė ( Lithuanian) *Lūcija, Lūsija ( Latvian) *Lleucu ( Welsh) *Llúcia ( Catalan) *Loukia, Λουκία (Greek) *Luca ( Hungarian) *Luce ( French, Italian) *Lucetta ( English) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Glueck
Grace Glueck (July 24, 1926 – October 8, 2022) was an American arts journalist. She worked for ''The New York Times'' from 1951 until the early 2010s. Early life Glueck was born in New York City on July 24, 1926. Her father, Ernest, worked as a municipal bond salesman on Wall Street until the Great Depression and subsequently became an insurance broker; her mother, Mignon (Schwarz), was a housewife who wrote in community papers. Glueck was raised in Rockville Centre, where she attended high school. She then studied English at New York University, graduating in 1948. During her studies there, she was the editor of ''The Apprentice'', the school's literary magazine. Career Glueck first joined ''The New York Times'' as a copy girl in 1951. After carrying out administrative assignments for two years, she became picture researcher with the '' Times Book Review'' for 11 years, having been dissuaded by a senior editor from becoming a reporter due to her sex. She was eventually given ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcia Tucker
Marcia Tucker (née Silverman; April 11, 1940 – October 17, 2006)Smith, RobertaTucker obituary "Marcia Tucker - Obituary" ''The New York Times'' (October 19, 2006), Retrieved 23 November 2014. was an American art historian, art critic and curator. In 1977 she founded the New Museum of Contemporary Art, a museum dedicated to innovative art and artistic practice in New York City, which she ran as the director until 1999. Early life and education Tucker was born on April 11, 1940, in Brooklyn, New York.Rourke, Mary"Obituaries - Marcia Tucker" ''Los Angeles Times'', Retrieved 23 November 2014. In 1961 she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Connecticut College, where she studied theatre and art. Tucker spent her junior year studying at the École du Louvre, in Paris. Her first job was as a secretary of the Museum of Modern Art; however, she soon quit after being asked to sharpen too many pencils. Career In 1969, Tucker became the Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Whitney Mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen Lanyon
Ellen Lanyon (December 21, 1926 – October 7, 2013) was a painter and printmaker from Chicago, Illinois. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), her MFA from the University of Iowa School of Art and Art History and studied restoration at the Courtauld Institute of Art. She also received an honorary doctorate from SAIC. Her works are in the permanent collections of many major American museums, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Ulrich Museum. Life Lanyon was born in Chicago to Howard and Ellen Lanyon. As a child, she visited the "Midget Village" at the Chicago World's Fair in 1933, a rather surreal experience that strongly impressed her as an artist. She attended Hyde Park High School while holding a part-time job as an artist in the foundry where her father worked, drawing machine parts. She credits her careful render ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ad Hoc Women Artists' Committee
Ad Hoc Committee of Women Artists or Ad Hoc Women Artists' Committee was founded in 1970 and included members from Women Artists in Revolution (WAR), the Art Workers' Coalition (AWC) and Women Students and Artists for Black Art Liberation (WSABAL). Founding members included Lucy Lippard, Poppy Johnson, Brenda Miller, Faith Ringgold and later, Nancy Spero. 1970 Whitney Museum Protest The group's specific focus was to address the under-representation of women in the Whitney Museum's Painting and Sculpture Annual, the precursor to what is now known as the Whitney Biennial. During the months leading up to the exhibition in December 1970, the Ad Hoc Committee of Women Artists staged numerous protests, sit-ins, and interventions at the museum circulating their demand that 50% of artists represented in the upcoming exhibition be women, and that fifty percent of those women be black. The 1969 Whitney Sculptural Annual, for instance, featured 143 artists, eight of which were women. Coinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Photographic Slide
In photography, reversal film or slide film is a type of photographic film that produces a Positive (photography), positive image on a Transparency (optics), transparent base. Instead of negative (photography), negatives and photographic printing, prints, reversal film is processed to produce transparencies or :en:wiktionary:diapositive#English, diapositives (abbreviated as "diafilm" or "dia" in some languages like German language, German, Romanian language, Romanian or Hungarian language, Hungarian). Reversal film is produced in various sizes, from 135 film, 35 mm to roll film to 8×10 inch sheet film. A slide is a specially mounted individual transparency intended for projection onto a screen using a slide projector. This allows the photograph to be viewed by a large audience at once. The most common form is the 35 mm slide, with the image framed in a 2×2 inch cardboard or plastic mount. Some specialized labs produce photographic slides from digital camera images in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Consciousness Raising
Consciousness raising (also called awareness raising) is a form of activism popularized by United States feminists in the late 1960s. It often takes the form of a group of people attempting to focus the attention of a wider group on some cause or condition. Common issues include diseases (e.g. breast cancer, AIDS), conflicts (e.g. the Darfur genocide, global warming), movements (e.g. Greenpeace, PETA, Earth Hour) and political parties or politicians. Since informing the populace of a public concern is often regarded as the first step to changing how the institutions handle it, raising awareness is often the first activity in which any advocacy group engages. However, in practice, raising awareness is often combined with other activities, such as fundraising, membership drives or advocacy, in order to harness and/or sustain the motivation of new supporters which may be at its highest just after they have learned and digested the new information. The term ''awareness raising'' is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
