Critical Writing Index

It's a Womans World

by Uta Grosenic

Women Artists in the 20th and 21st century, 2005, pp. 12-15

TASCHEN GmbH, 2005

An overview by the editor about how women "broke through male-dominated structures" of the art world during the 20th and 21st century, particularly in the 1960's through feminism movements and creative styles like Body Art, Appropriation Art, Performance Art, Video Art etc.

ITEM 2005.073 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Sonia Delaunay

Natalia Goncharova

Hannah Hoch

Georgia O'Keeffe

Meret Oppenheim

Germaine Richier

Lee Krasner

Barbara Hepworth

Agnes Martin

Niki de Saint Phalle

Bridget Riley

Hanne Darboven

Nancy Holt

Valie Export

Carolee Schneemann

Rhythm 2, 1974Marina Abramovic

Cut Piece, 1965Yoko Ono

The Dinner Party, 1974-1979Judy Gerowitz

Louise Bourgeois

Ballad of Sexual Dependence, 1986Nan Goldin

Sherrie Levine

Elaine Sturtevant

Laurie Anderson

Cindy Sherman

Barbara Kruger

Jenny Holzer

Rebecca Horn

Rachel Whiteread

Susan Rothenberg

Rosemarie Trockel

Candida Hofer

Rineke Dijkstra

Tracey Moffat

Shirin Neshat

Ellen Gallagher

Kara Walker

Adriana Varejao

Rosemarie Trockel

Dream Temple,1999Mariko Mori

Vanessa Beecroft