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1 online resource (377 pages) |
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New Directions in American History |
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New directions in American history.
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Cover; Entering the Picture: judy Chicago, the fresno feminist art Program, and the Collective visons of women artists; Copright; Contents; Plates and Figure; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; Section I: Emerging: Views from the Periphery; 1. Becoming Judy Chicago: Feminist Class; 2. Collaboration and Conflict in the Fresno Feminist Art Program: An Experiment in Feminist Pedagogy; 3. Reflections on the First Feminist Art Program; 4. Interview with Suzanne Lacy; 5. The First Feminist Art Program: A View from the 1980s; 6. Feminist Art Education: Made in California |
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Section II: Re-Centering: Theory and Practice7. Abundant Evidence: Black Women Artists of the 1960s and 1970s; 8. "Teaching to Transgress": Rita Yokoi and the Fresno Feminist Art Program; 9. Joyce Aiken: Thirty Years of Feminist Art and Pedagogy in Fresno; 10. "Your Vagina Smells Fine Now Naturally"; 11. A Collective History: Las Mujeres Muralistas; 12. The Women Artists' Cooperative Space as a Site for Social Change: Artemisia Gallery, Chicago (1973-1979); 13. Salon Women of the Second Wave: Honoring the Great Matrilineage of Creators of Culture |
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14. The New York Feminist Art Institute, 1979-199015. Our Journey to the New York Feminist Art Institute; Section III: Picturing: Transformation; 16. How I Became a Chicana Feminist Artist; 17. Searching for Catalyst and Empowerment: The Asian American Women Artists Association, 1989-Present; 18. Notes of a Dubious Daughter: My Unfinished Journey Toward Feminism; 19. "The Way Things Are": Curating Place as Feminist Practice in American Indian Women's Art; 20. Marginal Discourse and Pacific Rim Women's Arts; 21. Curatorial Practice as Collaboration in the United States and Italy |
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22. Feminist Activist Art Pedagogy: Unleashed and EngagedList of Contributors; Permission Acknowledgments; Index |
| Summary |
In 1970, Judy Chicago and fifteen students founded the groundbreaking Feminist Art Program (FAP) at Fresno State. Drawing upon the consciousness-raising techniques of the women's liberation movement, they created shocking new art forms depicting female experiences. Collaborative work and performance art -- including the famous ""Cunt Cheerleaders""--Were program hallmarks. Moving to Los Angeles, the FAP produced the first major feminist art installation, Womanhouse (1972). Augmented by thirty-seven illustrations and color plates, this interdisciplinary collection of essays by artists and sch |
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Print version record |
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Chicago, Judy, 1939- -- Influence
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Chicago, Judy, 1939- fast |
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Fresno State College. Feminist Art Program.
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Fresno State College. Feminist Art Program fast |
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Feminism and art.
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Feminism and art
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203804193 |
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0203804198 |
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