Sentences with phrase «from early feminists»

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.

In recognition of these pioneering organisations, Geyer created Collective Weave (2017): a sequence of 10 fabrics imaginatively incorporating logos and drawings from early feminist and lesbian magazines and flyers.

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When details of her self - titled 2013 album were originally leaked earlier that year under the moniker Mrs. Carter, it was panned by some critics for its foreshadowed embrace of the artist's still - new identity as hip - hop mogul Sean «Jay - Z» Carter's wife rather than the trailblazing feminist icon who coined powerful female anthems like Irreplaceable, Single Ladies and Independent Women from her Destiny's Child days.

It allowed me to reconceptualize the study of «women in the Bible,» by moving from what men have said about women to a feminist historical reconstruction of early Christian origins as well as by articulating a feminist critical process for reading and evaluating androcentric biblical texts.

It was appropriate, then, for early 20th - century Social Gospel theologians like Walter Rauschenbusch to observe how prejudice and social discrimination are passed from one generation to the next, and it is consistent for theologians today to incorporate observations about social inheritance — what liberation theologians and feminist theologians call «social location» or «systemic evil» — into our understanding of the human condition.

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.

Before then, though she espoused feminist views and mentored younger women from early on in her career, she was heavily focused on pursuing her own research to earn tenure, and spent her personal time on raising her family — not actively working to make the system more equitable.

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...

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.

At first, Jafari seems primarily concerned with exonerating herself from the guilt of causing a suicide; with time, however, a newfound responsibility takes shape, and «Three Faces» feels more in line with the canny feminist leanings of Panahi's earlier films, from «The Mirror» to «Offside.»

The novel follows Greer from her early twenties to mid-thirties as she struggles to maintain her years - long relationships with her boyfriend, Cory and best friend, Zee all while balancing her ambition with her feminist morals.

Early works from the 1980s emerged in the wake of explosive changes in political, social and cultural conditions marked by the AIDS crisis, a fervent discourse on sexuality and gender, and feminist activism.

From the seminal performance work by Rachel Rosenthal, the early queer video work of EZTV, boundary breaking art installations by Barbara T. Smith, the pioneering media explorations by Electronic Café International, to the feminist media interventions of Suzanne Lacy and Leslie Labowitz - Starus, these five influential and often overlooked artists and collaborative arts groups were fundamental to charting the course for the artist space movement and its vision of egalitarian artistic production and reception.

From the Prefix Photo press release: «She notes that, since the early 1980s, most critical writing about Wall's work has ignored feminist readings of it, aligning it instead with cinematography, the historic avant - garde and a return to history painting.

Los Angeles - based artist and writer Maya Gurantz talks about: Getting out of the staid confines of where she grew up, and what it was (and is) like being an angry feminist from an early age; her «accountability group,» a group of women artists...

The ideas within Estes» paintings in Dispatches from the Front Lines come out of the feminist art movement of the early seventies and the subsequent flowering of the pluralism and inclusiveness of that time.

This is distinctly different from the earlier generation of women artists such as Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, and Joan Mitchell, who bristled at the idea of being called a feminist.

[1] With this kind of concrete change, one might expect feminist art from forty or fifty years ago to feel somewhat dated, like throwbacks to an earlier moment in a righteous narrative of progress.

From The Infinity Engine, the exhibition splits into Hershman Leeson's early works which are characterized by drawing, painting, sculpture, and feminist performance and protest pieces, and mid-career works which focus on the internet, artificial intelligence and technology.

Ana Mendieta's identification as a Latina and Third World feminist is not only linked to her experience of migrating from Cuba to the United States in Operation Peter Pan, but also her studies at the University of Iowa, a place not associated with diversity in the early 1970s.

This month the legendary feminist artist will turn 75, and the Tri-state area is about to explode into a trio of celebrations of the Los Angeles artist, including a survey called «The Very Best of Judy Chicago» at Jersey City's Mana Contemporary and another one displaying her early paintings, videos, and sculptures from the 1960s and»70s at the Brooklyn Museum.

Kelly's iconic feminist work Post-Partum Document (1973 — 79) is resurfaced in a show devoted to her early photographs, films, and prototypes from the 1970s, tracing the first six years of her son's life and the intimate relationship between mother and child.

[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.

Including references ranging from popular TV sitcoms like Living Single to MTV's Real World to Edwin S. Porter's early 1907 short film Laughing Gas, Syms's videos and performances look closely at representations of blackness, and their relationship to self, narrative, vernacular, feminist thought, and activist traditions.

Largely collage, these range from early defiant political collages, to gentler feminist social satire to striking, sensual surrealist images.

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).

Taking it's title from the seminal early - feminist Virginia Woolf essay, «A Room of One's Own,» at Yancey Richardson Gallery through Aug. 21, 2015, plays off of that historical show, looking further inward not just at the process of experimenting in the studio, but at the space itself, as a muse and subject in the art of 12 contemporary photographers, including Anne Collier, Mickalene Thomas, and Laura Letinsky.

Excommunicated from the art world in the early»90s for her cheerful paintings of hard - core pornography — Minter said feminists accused her of sexism — today she shows her work at the Venice Biennale; she's collected by the Guggenheim and Jay Z and is a godmother to a new generation of artists experimenting with what she calls «the feminine grotesque.»

In Chicago in the early 1970s, we had our own third and best - known generation of alternative spaces (each city can claim its own artist - run history, probably with a fair share of boosterism thrown in), such as ARC, Artemisia (both were feminist galleries formed from West - East Bag, a nationwide network of women artists), and N.A.M.E., with the much - heralded Randolph Street Gallery opening in 1979.7 This is not to mention still - running artist - driven efforts such as the Hyde Park Art Center, founded in 1948, and the South Side Community Art Center, the only surviving Federal Arts Center from the WPA era and the oldest African American art center in the country, famously dedicated by Eleanor Roosevelt on opening day in 1940.

For example, Shani draws from The Book of the City of Ladies, written by Italian - French medical author Christine de Pizan in 1405 as an early proto - feminist example describing a city without men, that Shani imagined links to present and possible future scenarios.

A feminist, activist and video and performance pioneer, Ivekovic came of age in the early 1970s during the period known as the Croatian Spring, when artists broke free from mainstream institutional settings.

She holds a PhD from McGill University in Montreal where her thesis «Ree Morton and Feminist Installation Art: 1968 - 1977» took Morton's career as a case study to explore the absence of women in early installation art histories and consider the artist's legacy in relation to 1970s feminist art.

None of Minter's work embodies the Pretty / Dirty idea more than her infamous «Porn Grids,» which inspired an outcry from mainstream feminists and scandalized reviews when she first showed them in the early «90s.

Her works from this period, predating the wave of feminist artworks in the early»70s, assert female rights and critique militarism and machismo in a manner that is at once humorous and threatening.

From the early 1960s, Natalia LL was working in Communist Poland but was very aware of other radical women artists: she was the co-founder of the artist - run PERMAFO Gallery in Wrocław, which regularly invited international artists to exhibit in Poland, and from 1975, engaged in numerous feminist art exhibitions and symposia outside of PolFrom the early 1960s, Natalia LL was working in Communist Poland but was very aware of other radical women artists: she was the co-founder of the artist - run PERMAFO Gallery in Wrocław, which regularly invited international artists to exhibit in Poland, and from 1975, engaged in numerous feminist art exhibitions and symposia outside of Polfrom 1975, engaged in numerous feminist art exhibitions and symposia outside of Poland.

The work spanned from early watercolors to late abstractions, some of which appear to be in dialogue with central - core feminist imagery.

Long an active voice in contemporary political and feminist art, the exhibition includes early work from her studies at the Art Institute of Chicago to recent presentation at the 2007 Venice Biennale.

Her work has progressed since the early»90s — from graphic design - based, politically motivated work intended as queer activism, to representational painting, to abstract painting that borrows from 1970s feminist art.

Its goal is not only to showcase a large sampling of contemporary feminist art from a global perspective but also to move beyond the specifically Western brand of feminism that has been perceived as the dominant voice of feminist and artistic practice since the early 1970s.

To celebrate her seventy - fifth birthday, Judy Chicago drew inspiration from her earliest explorations of feminist imagery to create a monumental pyrotechnic performance piece, A Butterfly for Brooklyn, in Brooklyn's Prospect Park on April 26th, 2014.

This exhibition showcases the pioneering feminist artist's work from her time on the West Coast and highlights her range of styles from the period including hard - edge paintings, computer - generated images, and her earliest Pattern and Decoration works.