Women Artists Together: Art in the Age of Women's Liberation

Women Artists Together explores the 1970s women's art movement through the lens of collaboration, collectivity, and conflict, highlighting the inspirational feminist activism and fallings out, disagreements, and antagonism of UK- and US-based artists.

Format: Hardback
Length: 264 pages
Publication date: 10 October 2023
Publisher: Yale University Press

Women Artists Together is a captivating exploration of the impact of the women's liberation movement on a generation of female artists. It provides a novel perspective on the history of the women's art movement, delving into how collaboration and unity shaped its trajectory. By tracing the politics of liberation in the 1970s, author Amy Tobin highlights how artworks emerged from and contested feminist paradigms and contexts. The book encompasses a range of topics, including class, gender, race, and sexuality, and showcases examples of inspirational feminist activism as well as conflicts, disagreements, and antagonism. Spanning across four chapters, Tobin examines the work of artists based in the United Kingdom and the United States, including Judy Chicago, Mary Beth Edelson, Rose English, Harmony Hammond, Candace Hill-Montgomery, Claudette Johnson, Suzanne Lacy, Howardena Pindell, Ingrid Pollard, Carolee Schneemann, Cecilia Vicuña, and Kate Walker. Additionally, the book explores various groups and organizations such as the Feminist Art Programme at Cal Arts, the Womens Workshop of the Artists Union, Where We At, Black Women Artists Inc., and the South London Art Group. It also mentions publications such as Heresies and Chrysalis, as well as writers and curators like Lucy R. Lippard and Arlene Raven.

Weight: 914g
Dimension: 248 x 179 x 26 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780300270044