20th-century: Feminist & Performance art

Question 1

Answer 1

Carolee Schneemann

Performance art

Question 2

Sections of Feminism

Answer 2

First wave feminism

• Suffrage movement
• Voting rights
• Equality

Second wave feminism

• Issues
• Sexual freedom
• Gender

Question 3

The Second Sex

Answer 3

Historically, Women have been labeled as the other sex / secondary to men, be it in deformation or admiration.

Simone de Beauvoir

Question 4

Difference between gender and sex

Answer 4

Gender - cultural construct

Sex - biological

Question 5

The Feminine Mystique

Answer 5

Betty Friedan

Nature vs. Culture

Interviewed women and found that they were limited and not satisfied with their roles.

Question 6

Answer 6

Carolee Schneemann
Meat Joy

Orgy with raw meat.

Excessive, indulgent, celebrating flesh.

Compared to Pollock - stepping into the work without boundaries.

Still working within traditions.

Question 7

Answer 7

Hannah Wilke
S.O.S.—Starification Object Series

Chewing gum formed to be vaginas

Objectified and confronting
Pulls from typical female fashion poses

Question 8

Answer 8

Judy Chicago

Place-settings for 39 women from all times from prehistoric up to Georgia O’Keefe in chronological order.

Triangle- symbol of Womanhood

Names of women creating a metaphorical foundation

Celebrates women who got us to where we are now

Each plate is a sylized, abstracted vagina

Question 9

Answer 9

CindySherman
Untitled Film Still

Gaze - viewers become objectifying and typically masculine

Addressing a genre - appears to be a generic character, addressing cliches

Question 10

Answer 10

David Wojnarowicz

“When I put my hands on your body”

People should not be distinguishable from one another because underneath the layers we are not.

GLBT activist / AIDs

Question 11

Answer 11

Adrian Piper

“Cornered”

Disappearance of race