Feminist Art and the Avant-Garde

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The paper looks at how the art exhibitions in the 1970s featured "women's art" that was inherently bound up with the protest movement politics of that time. The paper discusses the revolutionary nature of these early exhibitions and the historical impact of the selection process used in constructing these exhibitions. It also mentions the fact that modern feminist art tends to focus on lesbian artists exclusively.

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"Less significant today is the question of "who created it"
than what the creation means. Women artists with a radical feminist agenda are employing performance art much as Yoko Ono did some 35 or 40 years ago to publicize her own understanding of what it means to be a woman within a male-dominated social system and artistic milieu.
"Women Choose Women" was important not only because it was a "first." It was important because it demonstrated that women artists were no longer content to have males determine what works of theirs would be exhibited and how these exhibitions would be interpreted. Feminist art and scholarship have advanced significantly since that time."

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