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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809893403321

Titolo

Entering the picture : Judy Chicago, the Fresno Feminist Art Program, and the collective visions of women artists / / edited by Jill Fields

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2012

ISBN

1-136-63891-1

1-136-63892-X

0-203-80419-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (377 p.)

Collana

New directions in American history

Altri autori (Persone)

FieldsJill <1954->

Disciplina

704/.042097309045

Soggetti

Feminism and art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Entering the Picture: judy Chicago, the fresno feminist art Program, and the Collective visons of women artists; Copright; Contents; Plates and Figure; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; Section I: Emerging: Views from the Periphery; 1. Becoming Judy Chicago: Feminist Class; 2. Collaboration and Conflict in the Fresno Feminist Art Program: An Experiment in Feminist Pedagogy; 3. Reflections on the First Feminist Art Program; 4. Interview with Suzanne Lacy; 5. The First Feminist Art Program: A View from the 1980s; 6. Feminist Art Education: Made in California

Section II: Re-Centering: Theory and Practice7. Abundant Evidence: Black Women Artists of the 1960s and 1970s; 8. "Teaching to Transgress": Rita Yokoi and the Fresno Feminist Art Program; 9. Joyce Aiken: Thirty Years of Feminist Art and Pedagogy in Fresno; 10. "Your Vagina Smells Fine Now Naturally"; 11. A Collective History: Las Mujeres Muralistas; 12. The Women Artists' Cooperative Space as a Site for Social Change: Artemisia Gallery, Chicago (1973-1979); 13. Salon Women of the Second Wave: Honoring the Great Matrilineage of Creators of Culture

14. The New York Feminist Art Institute, 1979-199015. Our Journey to the New York Feminist Art Institute; Section III: Picturing: Transformation; 16. How I Became a Chicana Feminist Artist; 17. Searching for Catalyst and Empowerment: The Asian American Women



Artists Association, 1989-Present; 18.Notes of a Dubious Daughter: My Unfinished Journey Toward Feminism; 19. "The Way Things Are": Curating Place as Feminist Practice in American Indian Women's Art; 20. Marginal Discourse and Pacific Rim Women's Arts; 21. Curatorial Practice as Collaboration in the United States and Italy

22. Feminist Activist Art Pedagogy: Unleashed and EngagedList of Contributors; Permission Acknowledgments; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In 1970, Judy Chicago and fifteen students founded the groundbreaking Feminist Art Program (FAP) at Fresno State. Drawing upon the consciousness-raising techniques of the women's liberation movement, they created shocking new art forms depicting female experiences. Collaborative work and performance art - including the famous ""Cunt Cheerleaders"" - were program hallmarks. Moving to Los Angeles, the FAP produced the first major feminist art installation, Womanhouse (1972). Augmented by thirty-seven illustrations and color plates, this interdisciplinary collection of essays by artists