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Article: Feminism uncovered: Richard Meyer on the "WACK!" catalogue.(SLANT)
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- June 22, 2007
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A TECHNICOLOR SEA of bare-breasted women spills across the cover for the catalogue to "WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution," an international survey of women's art from 1965 to 1980 on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles through July 16. Designed by Lorraine Wild, the dust jacket reproduces a large detail from a Vietnam-era photocollage by Martha Rosler titled Body Beautiful, or Beauty Knows No Pain: Hot House, or Harem, 1966-72. More than any single work in the exhibition, more perhaps than the exhibition itself, the WACK! cover has become a site of interpretive conflict and controversy.
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