February 22, 2012

Marjan Melkert’s ‘Herstories’—Spotlighting Women Who Dare to Break New Ground

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Guest Blogger, Marjan Melkert Support RAWA – Learning to read, 2010, mixed media, 35 x 35 cm Besides in depictions of saints, the strivings of women have seldom been presented as examplary for both sexes in either word or image. Dutch artist Marjan Melkert aims at a revision. In her painting series ‘Herstories’ she calls [...]

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Madame Realism: The Domestic as Stage for Women’s Artistic Self-Empowerment

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Madame Realism, an all-female exhibition at Marres in Maastricht (NL), features art objects pertaining to the interior which are as diverse in their form as in their creators’ approach to this domain. The 17 artists presented in the exhibition appropriate the ambiguous setting of the domestic as stage for female artistic self-empowerment, where the domestic becomes public and the personal interpersonal.

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Josephine Meckseper’s Art: A Conflation of Politics and Consumerism

Meckseper, Untitled, 2005

Untitled, Josephine Meckseper, 2005, courtesy Timothy Tailer Gallery Two weeks ago I discussed the representation of women in the face of growing consumerism in mid-20th century women’s art. This week, I will focus on consumer critique in a single contemporary artist’s work, which is often so complex and fraught with meaning, it needs careful reflection [...]

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Mid-20th Century Women Artists’ Critique of Consumer Culture and its Representation of Women

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The representation of women in visual culture, as in advertising and art, has been a major issue in feminist discourse. After all, such images can not only be said to constitute a reflection of prevalent notions, but also possess influential power of their own. Second Wave feminist artists of the 1970s produced powerful expressions of [...]

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The Meat Dress Controversy: How Original is the Copy?

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Fall of last year, Lady Gaga caught the interest of world-wide media and stirred much controversy with one of her provocative outfits. On several occasions, the pop star wore a dress made of raw meat, supplemented with matching meat accessories. While it was much debated whether there is a message to the outfit, what the [...]

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“Just” Decoration? The Hidden Implications of the Depreciation of Ornamental Art

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“Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked out.”–Leo Tolstoy, What is Art?, 1898. In the mid-20th century, art was dominated by a rather formal language of abstraction. Minimalism, Formalism & Conceptualism made up the artistic mainstream. To call an art work decorative was to deride it.

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Fighting Unfair Fares with Needle and Thread: An Interview with Founder of Craftivist Collective Sarah Corbett about Saturday’s Protest

Craftivist Collective stitch-in, London

ART BLOG This Saturday, April 16th, the activist groups Craftivist Collective and Climate Rush will undertake a Railway Adventure in protest against the planned 31% raise of train fares in the UK, and its potential social and environmental consequences.

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Radical Stitch: The Artistic, Political Side of Needlework

QRacks the Land by Radical Cross Stitch

Frauke Ehlers kicks off a new series of blogs dedicated to feminist styles in art, beginning with traditional and radical textile crafts.

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