Art of Feminism: Images that Shaped the Fight for Equality, 1857-2017
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SuperMom Tamara Moyzes practices what she calls “artivism”—art with activist intent intersectional interventions—in which she collaborates with other individuals and groups. When the first-ever quintuplets were born to a woman in the Czech Republic, she experienced such extreme threats and actual abuse that she had to be given protection. The cause of this aggression was racism: she was Roma. It was said she was getting benefits that no “real Czech” woman would get. Moyzes, working with Vera Duždová as the Roma Kale Panthera Groupe, made a video, installation, and objects. The video showed a pregnant woman being gifted, in daytime-TV style, the “Prenatal Luxury Box,” containing six gifts that no Czech woman had received before: dog poop; threatening letters; safety-window films to protect against Molotov cocktails; a fire extinguisher; patrol officers and a police escort—all things that the Roma woman had received in actual life.
Art of Feminism: Images that Shaped the Fight for Equality, 1857-2017 Feminist art and the fight for equality A comprehensive international survey of feminist art: From highlighting the posters of the Suffrage Atelier, through the radical art of Judy Chicago and Carrie Mae Weems, to the cutting-edge work of Sethembile Msezane and Andrea Bowers, The Art of Feminism traces the way feminists have shaped visual arts and media throughout history. Feminism and art history: Featuring more than 350 works of art, illustration, photography, performance, and graphic design-along with essays examining the legacy of the radical canon-this rich volume showcases the vibrancy of the feminist aesthetic over the last 150 years. Readers familiar with Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History, Women Art and Society and Women Artists will enjoy The Art of Feminism Buy here:
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