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By combining four major voices in the feminist art movement of the 1970s and '80s into one thematic group biography to represent the rise of contemporary feminist art, this sampler offers intriguing but overly brief introductions (sure to provoke arguments over who was left out). The opening chapter highlights Judy Chicago, best known for her installation piece Dinner Party, following the artist as she walks through New York City, reflecting on the many times she was told women couldn't make art, or be taken seriously by the art world. The second installment features Faith Ringgold, an African American artist who creates story quilts interrogating the intersection of gender and race. The third artist, Cuban American Ana Mendieta, wove narratives of place, belonging, and Mother Goddess adoration into her earth sculptures before her early death at age 37 in 1985. The final section discusses the Guerilla Girls, a collective of anonymous activists who wore masks and covered New York City with posters about the gender inequality of museums in the 1980s. Rossetti's painterly, bright artwork full of diverse faces and bodies elevates the text and improves pacing, as the summaries shift awkwardly from first to third person and can feel scattered. Hopefully readers will take these quick-sketch portraits as inspiration to seek out further resources, as each figure deserves a deeper dive. (Aug.) |
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A lively opening sequence, including a drawing contrasting Miss America of 1968 with exuberant women throwing their bras away, sets the scene for this imaginative group portrait of key figures in the feminist art movement. As Judy Chicago strolls through Brooklyn, carrying flowers for the opening of a museum exhibition, Grande excerpts Chicago's own writings and creates powerful flashbacks to seminal moments in Chicago's unusual life and famously controversial career. African American artist Faith Ringgold also carries flowers as she walks through Harlem and reflects on her childhood and her daring choice to transform quilts into works of art. Rossetti's city scenes are saturated and strongly patterned; her figures are supple and expressive. The haunting profile of Cuban American performance artist Ana Mendieta, who was profoundly inspired by nature, is rendered in an open, fluid style. The dark and suspenseful panels portraying the Guerilla Girls, the still-active radical group of feminist art protesters who don gorilla masks to remain anonymous, capture their subversive wit and tactics. Throughout, Grande's succinct, quote-laced, and arresting narrative conveys a wealth of provocative information and emotional and social nuance. |