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 Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:23 pm
In my Art History class we had a period dedicated to Feminist Art. The teacher started off by asking us to write ten male artists and ten female artists. Most weren't able to think of ten women - I, being somewhat interested in the subject was able to name 10, but of course they are nowhere near as well known as men.
I ask of you to try out the excercise for yourself, and perhaps discuss some great works of art, perhaps even work that you yourself are doing?
I am going to be holding an event with my best friend in the subway. We're going to knit a scarf together starting from the middle and each knitting outwards. We are going to be absolutly silent, and we are going continue from one extremity of the system to the other. Every three stations one of our friends is going to take a picture from a different place in the metro, capturing the expressions people have watching us knit. from having knit in the subway before, I love to watch their expressions. We're also reclaiming knitting as an art form... tradionnal woman's art passed down for centuries from one talented woman to another!
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Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 8:24 pm
oh my god! girl, you are awesome! you are like to cooest person i sort of know.
let's see if i can get to 10...
1. carolee schneeman (i'm pretty sure that was misspelled..)
2. yoko ono
3. frida kahlo
4. oh man i am really trying to remember this woman's name... um she did these paper silouettes of slave women and plantation life and stuff... i totally can't remember her name.
5. Julie Holtzer
6. sadie benning
7. catherine opie
8. nicole eisenman
that's all i can think of and i gotta go. :-/ that was harder than i thought it would be.
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Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 8:33 pm
my older sister allison is an artist in NYC and she put on this event called the muster in which she called upon artists to show what they were fighting for by fashioning a civil war style battle ground on this island up there. the artists were required to create uniforms and to declare their cause to an audience, answering the question "what are you fighting for?!" and amongst the artist there was this whole group of knitting ladies who were fighting for a knitting revolution. they knitted all their uniforms, socks dresses, fishnet stockings, and as a grand finale they knitted a giant american flag. it was amazing. your subway knitting art really reminded me of that.
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Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 8:38 pm
oh i thought of two more artists. sue de beer and junko mizuno.
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Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 10:34 am
Very cool! That's awesome! To tell the truth, knitting seems to be coming back with a vengeance!! I like paying attention in art history...
Why do you think that women have left so little art behind them?
And you're the coolest person I sorta know too. Long live the leader of the RG guild!
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Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 2:00 pm
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Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 9:54 pm
Cindy Sherman, Diane Arbus, Floria Sigismondi, I can't believe nobody said O'Keefe! Annie Leibovitz, Margaret Bourke-White, Gertrude Kasebier, Dorothea Tanning...just a few people haven't said. One of the many joys of being in a photo history class is actually knowing things like that.
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Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 8:18 am
shizznazzled carolee schneeman f-ing rocks. Kara Walker is another favorite of mine, definitely a feminist-type.
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