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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) |