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This movement emerged in the 1960s and 1970s. It came as a response to challenge the male-dominated art and promoted women's art and showing the marginalization of women. It challenged traditional gender roles and explored themes of female identity, experience, social inequalities, and body politics while questioning the patriarchy.
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This piece challenged patriarchal views of divinity by showing a woman of color giving birth. It shows the connection with creative female power and is a symbol of second wave feminism. Margaret Sjoo, God Giving Birth, 1968, Oil on Masonite, 72” x 48”, Museum Anna Nordlander, Skellefteå , Sweden -
Inspired by the total solar eclipse and celebrated space and science, which captured the abstracted version of an astronomical event. These began after the Apollo 1969 moon landings.
Alma Thomas, The Eclipse, 1970, acrylic on canvas, Smithsonian, American Art Museum, Gift of the artist, 1978.40.3 -
It is anti-Vietnam war art while also being feminist. This is a critique on American Media and its consumerism while highlighting the leaving and detachment of your home front in relation to the realities of the war. Martha Rosler, Bringing the War Back
Home, 1967-1972
Series of twelve cut-and-pasted printed
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The series is a response to the post South Africa apartheid. Showing the representation and commodification of the female body. There is use of ethnographic postcards with pornography by splicing body parts of white women from pornographic magazines with the ethnographic images of black women. Candice Breitz, Rainbow Series, 1996, photomontage