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- Title
Claims by Anglo American feminists and Chicanas/os for alternative space: The LA art scene in the political 1970s.
- Authors
Zetterman, Eva
- Abstract
Originating in the context of the Civil Rights Movements and political activities addressing issues of race, gender and sexuality, the Women's Liberation movement and the Chicano Movement became departures for two significant counter art movements in Los Angeles in the 1970s. This article explores some of the various reasons why Anglo American feminist artists and Chicana artists were not able to fully collaborate in the 1970s, provides some possible explanations for their separation, and argues that the Eurocentric imperative in visual fine art was challenged already in the 1970s by Chicana/o artists in Los Angeles. In so doing, the art activism by Anglo American feminists and Chicanas/os is comparatively investigated with Los Angeles as the spatial framework and the 1970s as the time frame. Four main components are discussed: their respective political aims, alternative art spaces, pedagogical frameworks and aesthetic strategies. The study found that the art activisms by Anglo Americanfeminists and Chicanas/os differed. These findings suggest that a task ahead is to open up a dialogue with Chicana/o activist art, making space for more diverse representations of activities and political issues, both on the mainstream art scene and in the history of art.
- Subjects
FEMINIST art; WOMEN in art; FEMINISM &; art; AMERICAN civil rights movement; 20TH century art; MEXICAN Americans in motion pictures; MEXICAN American women; TWENTIETH century; ART history; HISTORY
- Publication
American Studies in Scandinavia, 2016, Vol 48, Issue 1, p61
- ISSN
0044-8060
- Publication type
Article