Research Response #2

For this week since our assigned readings were related to the history and the upcoming of video art and its relation to feminist theory I decided that I would research those topics even further. With art and feminism and feminist issues being what I study and two of my strong interests I am always very interested and eager to learn about them especially when a crossover between the two is involved. Starting from around the 1960's feminist artists started to produce more work but what I found interesting was how the article I found talked about how it wasn't about what the medium or what type of art it was, but rather their goal was to "influence cultural attitudes and transform stereotypes." I think that makes perfect sense because like everything else happening for them then, they were still working toward the same goals and it didn't really matter how they got there as long and they did with whatever worked for them. Moving on with time, many popular feminist artists were mentioned that I had been familiar with their work like Eva Hesse, Judy Chicago, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Lucy Leppard and Cindy Sherman as well as the Linda Nochlin for her publication of "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" I am not really sure why, but I didn't really think that I would recognize as many as I did but I for the first time noticed that there is such a strong connection between the art choices of the women to what were the popular feminist goals at the time and not simply with the art movement at the time, which was how I typically learned about them. Even though I seemingly was more familiar with some of this history of feminist art than I thought I learned, or rather came to the realization of a lot that I hadn't before. Also I found it extremely helpful to learn about this in a way that lays of the history and evolution of the feminist art history movement in the way it was instead of the typical sources that are more artist specific and as a reader you are left to sort it yourself.

http://www.theartstory.org/movement-feminist-art.htm