Sentences with phrase «early feminist»

In the vein of earlier feminist artists, many contemporary painters use self - portraiture as a profound space for self - expression and the exploration of identity.

She is also associated with early feminist art, although the movement had yet to emerge.

Confrontation and challenges issued through art in the show can be found in works by early feminists Miriam Schapiro and May Stevens as well in art by Audrey Flack, Howardena Doreen Pindell, and in a daring male nude, made before 1930, by Alice Morgan Wright (1881 - 1975).

Marston, a Tufts University psychology professor, drew inspiration for the superhero demigoddess from early feminists like Ethel Byrne and Margaret Sanger, who founded the American Birth Control League, which later became the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

Drexler's Pop paintings have been identified more recently as early feminist artworks, although Drexler objected to this categorization, denying any deliberate political message in her work.

They argue that being pro-woman makes you pro-life, and many of America's best - known early feminists would agree.

Director Liv Ullmann's complex take on August Strindberg's early feminist play may be too stagey for some, but this is Best Actress material for Chastain, who injects vitality into a repressed 19th - century woman who falls from grace.

Additionally, like much early feminist art, McNeely's paintings were largely ignored by the gallery system, finding a venue only in the cooperative galleries.

The program also comes with the legacy of esteemed and pioneering critic and early feminist Lawrence Alloway, who led the program for 13 years.

Earlier feminists tackled grim and unfunny issues such as sexual violence, inspiring the Guerrilla Girls to keep their spirits intact by approaching their work with wit and laughter, thus preventing a backlash.

This epistemological quandry was the motivating force behind the work of the theosophical philosopher and early feminist activist Annie Besant, who searched for a visual language to communicate ideas, or what she called «thought forms».

[33] Maria Troy, «I Say I Am: Women's Performance Video from the 1970s,» also the title to a collection of «early feminist tapes» curated by Troy as Associate Curator of Media at the Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio.

Each iteration unique in sharing parallel commitments and emanating from Los Angeles — a city positioned as an important locus for early feminist discourse and supportive of new platforms blending art with initiative (Sexy Beast).

Hershman Leeson, who is perhaps best known for her unconventional and almost spy - like tactics of uncovering early feminist identity politics issues, here titles two photos of a woman who may or not be Leeson herself, as Tubal Invasion and Shutter.

Even Claes Oldenburg's proto - pop painted plasters, Jean Tinguely's «Meta - matic» drawing machines and Carolee Schneeman's early feminist performances seem to react to the Pollock myth.

Her visual vocabulary has developed over time through research into early feminist art, textiles, early modernist painting, and surrealist philosophy.

McNeely's deep humanism and personal connection to the corporeal circumstances particular to women were qualities which may have been perceived as insufficiently theory - driven in the politicized crucible of early feminist art.

To earlier feminists who had fought for the vote and for fair treatment in the workplace, it had seemed obvious that the ready availability of abortion would facilitate the sexual exploitation of women.

Work - life balance was ignored by early feminists, it's time we bring the basic experiences of women to the table, pregnancy, birth postpartum & parenting.

Their labor - intensive techniques — or bold statements about that type of process — yield objects that alter the notion of «women's work,» a popular subject in earlier feminist art.

The project was based on the art of Joyce Wieland and early feminist practice in 1960s and 1970s Canada.

This may come as a surprise, and indeed, very little is known about these earlier feminists beyond the work of a few scholars.

White middle - class women in the early feminist movement failed to appreciate the benefits they had through patriarchal gender roles and even through the law of coverture that completely subsumed a wife's rights under her husband's in the 1800s.

2, he describes himself as «an early feminist,» who believed that «a woman's rightful place was as a world leader, not servant or helpmate.»

Some historians suggest that the right to a pain - free labor was part of the early feminist movement and also helped increase the number of women having hospital births.

The movement to medicalize birth was led partly by urban middle - class women associated with the early feminist movement, who thought the freedom from pain promised by anesthesia would be empowering.

We've got a first glimpse from the film SUFFRAGETTE, with Carey Mulligan starring as Maude, a foot soldier of the early feminist movement who...

While it's clear that Olive loves Bill (she wouldn't have so much sex with him, live with him, or bear his children if she didn't), the focus of the film is the love between the women, and it is so refreshing — and so true to the spirit of these early feminists — that the film has this perspective, despite it ostensibly being about «the Creator of Wonder Woman.»

Production designer Alice Normington has worked on various projects set in the Victorian era — a TV movie adaptation of Great Expectations, among others — and stepped into the Edwardian era with great enthusiasm on Sarah Gavron's Suffragette, a film about the early feminist movement in London.

That pretty much every single awful thing that was brought down upon the women foot soldiers of the early feminist movement is brought down upon Maud Watts makes her plight that much more surreal and distant.

SUFFRAGETTE is the story about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who -LSB-...]

Sarah Gavron's Sufragette, is set in the early 20th century film about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement in the UK, stars Carey Mulligan, Meryl Streep, Helena Bonham Carter and Natalie Press.

As the title suggests, the film focuses on the early feminist movement, with Streep taking on the role of Emmeline Pankhurst.

Florence was a torch bearer as an early feminist who helped open doors for her equally assured, intelligent and capable granddaughter Emily.

She knew very little about the early feminist movement and her grandmother's role and influence in it.

Her father founded the newspaper El Mundo, and her formidable mother was an early feminist.

For the past two years, my work has revolved around the early feminist utopian novel, Moving the Mountain by Charlotte -LSB-...]

An early feminist, Lil Picard (1899 - 1994) was a fixture in the Downtown New York art world of the 1950s,»60s, and»70s as both artist and critic.

A leader of early feminist art, Chicago is best known for her multimedia installation The Dinner Party (1974 - 79), which presents a triangular table set for 39 historic women.

Of course, it was Womanhouse that made The Mood Back Home possible: without the brave combativeness of the early feminists, the next generation of women would scarcely have had the freedom to choose the lives they have.

Staying true to her early feminist concerns, Levine appropriated only the work of male artists as a means of «de-heroicizing» their patriarchal claim to the art historical canon.