Sentences with phrase «championed by feminist»

She worked for decades as a relative unknown — at one point using the roof of her townhouse as a studio — but championed by feminist artists in the Seventies, and by curator Robert Storr, she became well known and highly regarded in late middle age, making her the unofficial patron saint of unheralded midcareer artists everywhere.

Basic Instinct was championed by feminist critic Camille Paglia, who argued that it features «one of the great performances by a woman in screen history.»

But championed by the feminists of the New York art world in the 1970s, and then embraced by such curatorial powerhouses as Robert Storr, she became well known as she entered her seventies.

Not exact matches

From the 1960s to today, feminist artists have helped move art and culture forward by championing underrepresented women and protesting gender inequality.