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This piece of architecture depicts the allure of department stores in the 1930s and the association of shopping with women.
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This is a play on the interest that artists took in fashion in the 1930s. The woman's shadow is larger than her.
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This film depicts a seductive woman as someone who pulls men away from their studies and questions the validity of love versus lust.
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This watercolor depicts what life, namely attending entertainment venues, was like during the Great Depression.
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Picasso was known for his distorted depictions. This one is particularly erotic, with many critics noting the appearance of a penis on her face.
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This piece marries the idea of love with suicide, suggesting the artist's tormented relationships with women.
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This emotionally powerful piece speaks to the prominent deaths in this era of the Great Depression.
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This landmark film is about the iconic monster, Frankenstein, who is discovered undead, finding himself a mate in a woman.
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This sculpture weighs down the woman into space while also marrying her to sacred geometry.
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This work was inspired by a conversation between Oppenheim, Dora Maar and Pablo Picasso at a cafe in Paris when she made the joking observation that anything could be covered in fur.
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This wildly popular romance tells of Civil War and Reconstruction days in Georgia.
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O'Keeffe's flowers are often associated with female sex organs, though she personally denied this interpretation during her lifetime.
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This novel propounded a lesbian narrative in a highly controversial time.
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This painting describes the cold and distant relationship between Frida Kahlo and her wet nurse, meanwhile highlighting her disappointing relationship with her mother.
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Dorothea Lange is well-known for her ability to highlight the agony of the Depression Era, as we can see in the expression of the woman here.
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This hit song of the time was an adaption of a popular children’s nursery rhyme from the late nineteenth century.
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This iconic, double self-portrait depicts "Two Fridas" hand-in-hand yet with different hearts, a reflection of how the artist felt split in two by her husband's rejection and her willingness to begin a life on her own as an artist.
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This film portrayed the female protagonist in a dream-state that she ultimately wakes up from, proclaiming the famous line "There's no place like home."
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Hopper's painting not only highlights a woman in solitude in a public place but also the illusory nature of cinema.
