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Article: Body Image.
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- April 1, 2000
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Well known in Europe for her body-oriented performance, video and photographic work, Austrian artist Valie Export recently received her first U.S. solo show, spanning 30 years of feminist provocation.
In 1968, at age 28, Austrian artist Waltraud Hollinger changed her name to VALIE EXPORT, using the uppercase to announce her presence on the male-dominated Viennese art scene. Swept up in the cultural changes then occurring worldwide, and eager to counter the misogyny of the so-called Viennese Actionists--Gunter Brus, Otto Muhl, Hermann Nitsch and Rudolf Schwarzkogler--she sought a new identity not bound, as she says, "by her father's name (Lehner), or her former ...