Lynn Hershman Leeson Women Art Revolution
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Women Art Revolution combines interviews, artwork and rarely seen archival film and video footage, to detail the evolution of the feminist art movement in the United States from 1968 to the present. The film ties that movement to 1960s anti-war and civil rights demonstrations and details major developments in women’s art during the ’70s, including the opening of alternative art spaces such as the AIR Gallery in New York and the Los Angeles Woman’s Building. Chronicling the work of activists in more recent decades, the film focuses on the Guerrilla Girls, the Women’s Art Coalition and other similar groups, as well as the publications and spaces they’ve engendered.
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Lynn Hershman Leeson
Filmmaker and multimedia artist Lynn Hershman Leeson works in photography, video, installation, and interactive and internet-based media. Her experiment…
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2010: Women Art Revolution has world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival
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2010: Leeson’s extensive Women Art Revolution archive, including interviews with artists and critics, is now available online as part of Stanford University’s digital collections
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2008: In progress iteration of Women Art Revolution is screened at PS1 Contemporary Art Center in New York
