WGS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Guerrilla Girls, Tintoretto, Holofernes
30 Nov 2016
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The guerrilla girls is a group dedicated to revealing how the art world has discriminated against female and racialized artists canon = rule. Hegemonic discourse obscures female involvement and achievement in the art world. Some say it is not because he was heartbroken over the loss of his daughter (maria robusti), but because she was the one who created the paintings. Women were the rst artists - evidence of cave paintings including dominantly female handprints. Kathe kollwitz (1867-1945) was consistently ignored by art historians despite stating that she was the best expressionist painter of her time as she fell outside the standard lines of development and therefore, did not need to be studied. Her self portraits are an accurate expression of herself, not an image of her. Argued that we have so many exceptions and we need to create a new canon into which women are fully integrated.
