Women's Studies 2158A/B Lecture Notes - New Again, Judy Chicago, China Painting
13 Aug 2013
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Everything old is new again: new approaches to issues of feminism and. Really reflected w political and social consciousness. Art movement was just a microcosm of the larger western world. To fight back they took on post-modernism: reinforced the idea that there was no one way of doing something, it embraced the idea of diversity, there were multiple ways of doing things. Let"s look at embroidery, china painting, alternative mediums. We need an all encompassing population in art to reflect the diversity of a country, or the world generally. We will go back to the past and compare to modern. French photograph postcard achetes des pommes" from 19th century. Naked, she is holding apples, she is like food to be consumed, her gaze is inviting, etc. Along comes linda knchlin 1972 and made a contemporary feminist response to this image.
