Week 7- Art in Public Spaces,

FEMINIST THEORY AND ART PRACTICES INFORMED BY IT

Presentation:


Billboards of Barbara Kruger ("We don't need another hero"), posters and

performances by Guerilla Girls, Jo Spence ("Putting myself in the Picture",

Camden Press, 1986),


Reading:

Judith Butler "Gender Trouble- Feminism and the Subversion of Identity" (1990)


Suggested Reading:

Elizabeth Hess, in "Guerilla Girl Power: Why the Art World Needs a Conscience"

in Nina Felshin, ed., "But is it Art" (Seattle: Bay Press, 1995)


Laura Mulvey, Visual and Other Pleasures (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989)


Griselda Pollock, "What's Wrong with Images of Women?" in Rosemarie Betterton, ed.,


Looking On: Images of Femininity in the Visual Arts and Media (London, New York:

Pandora Press, 1987)


Linda Nochlin, "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" in Nochlin,

Women, Art, and Power and Other Essays (New York: Harper & Row, 1988)


Relevant URLs


Feminist.com

http://feminist.com/


Feminist Resources

http://www.ibd.nrc.ca/~mansfield/feminism/


Guerilla Girls

http://www.voyagerco.com/gg/gg.html


Feminist bookstores

http://www.igc.apc.org/women/bookstores/booknets.html


A celebration of women Writers

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mmbt/www/women/celebration.html


Women's History

http://www.teleport.com/~megaines/women.html


Video:


Martha Rosler, "Semiotics of the Kitchen"


group project


We analyze the outcome of the research and plan meeting


with concerned community, organizations I)