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Article: New Feminist Art Criticism
- Article from:
- Journal of American Culture
- Article date:
- October 1, 1996
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New Feminist Art Criticism. Edited by Katy Deepwell. Manchester and New York: Manchester UP, 1995.
The main focus of this collection of essays in New Feminist Art Criticism is on the problems of English and European feminist artists. Consisting of writings by feminist curators, critics, artists, and literati, it offers insight into the lack of a feminist art criticism theory faced by the feminist artists today. It discusses some of the same obstacles that women have faced since suffrage was finally recognized as a legal right to women.
Deepwell notes in the introduction that there is a "general consensus about the need for feminist art criticism in the 1990s and beyond..." but a lot more ...