Feminist Avant-Garde: Art from the 1970s
By Gabriele Schor Prestel, £45, 544 pages, hardcover, ISBN 978-3-7913-446-0
MANY would identify the rise of feminism that took hold in the 1960s with the prevailing sexual liberation that seized the youth of the era. However, this wasn't the case. That sexual liberation was, like most things of that period, a patriarchal trend that came at the expense of women, who were still expected to be subservient.
The 1970s, on the other hand, was the true platform for the tectonic shift in gender politics. It was here that some of the most explosive literature was produced and, as we see in this great book, some of the most confrontational art. Through their work, a swathe of female artists began to identify and subvert issues…
