Category: Feminism
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Shirin Neshat
Source: edited and extended from Wikipedia Shirin Neshat (Persian: شیرین نشاط; born March 26, 1957) is an Iranian visual artist who lives in New York City, known primarily for her work in film, video and photography. Her artwork centers around the contrasts between Islam and the West, femininity and masculinity, public life and private life, antiquity…
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Guerilla Girls
Guerilla Girls, a feminist group fighting sexism in arts practice. Formed in New York in 1985, the group maintain their anonymity by wearing gorilla masks and using the names of dead female artists as pseudonyms, e.g. Frida Kahlo and Hannah HÖch. They put pressure on organisations such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York by…
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Martha Rosler
Martha Rosler photos and photomontage to give you some ideas: http://home.earthlink.net/~navva/photo/index.html