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Article: Feminism at 40: recent overlapping exhibitions in New York City and East Hampton explored first-generation feminist art and its legacy. (Art & Politics I).(Critical Essay)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- May 1, 2003
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An important historical survey of what is arguably the late 20th century's most significant art movement was mounted last summer and fall at Guild Hall Museum in East Hampton, in the leafy far reaches of Long Island. "Personal & Political: The Women's Art Movement, 1969-1975" was but one of a cluster of shows that sprouted up seemingly out of nowhere, after 22 years of sparse coverage of first-generation feminist art. (1) Also appearing on the summer scene was Galerie Lelong's "Goddess" in Chelsea, followed in September by "Gloria: Another Look at Feminist Art of the 1970s" at White Columns in Greenwich Village; later in the fall, a sequel, "Regarding Gloria," showed a ...