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Article: ... Ifesto: feminist art's shifting ground.
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- C: International Contemporary Art
- Article date:
- June 22, 2006
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Congenitally opposed to the macho tone of so many avant-garde polemics, suspicion of the manifesto comes naturally to feminism. And yet, as the credibility of the manifesto declined over the past 40 years, feminist skepticism informed numerous landmark appropriations of the genre: Valerie Solanas' "SCUM Manifesto (1968), Mierle Laderman Ukeles' "Manifesto for Maintenance Art" (1969) and Donna Haraway's "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century" (1991), as well as two manifestos that Haraway inspired--VNS Matrix's "Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century" (1991) ...