(My project is this animated presentation. All the text below is found in the movie above, I repeated below for quick read or re-read if you need it.)
Guerrilla
Girls: Shaking up the (all male, all
white) art world
1985:
Outrage at MoMa
In
1985, the Museum of Modern Art held a show of contemporary artists featuring
169 artists, but only 17 of them were women.
"Any
artist who is not in my show should rethink HIS career" -Curator
A
small group of women artists held a protest outside the museum, but the
response was disappointing. So they
switched tactics, plastered SoHo in sassy street art, donned gorilla masks, adopted pseudonyms of famous female artists, and thus the Guerrilla Girls were born.
Using
a mixture of fine art, statistics, and sarcasm, the Guerrilla Girls sent
ripples through the art world.
But
they didn't stop there...
"They make culture hacking look good. Really
good." -Wired
"The Guerrilla Girls took feminist theory, gave it a
populist twist and some Madison Avenue pizazz and set it loose in the
streets." - Roberta Smith, The New
York Times
"The Girls are quippy as well as lippy. They are the
Fun-Guard of feminism." - Ginny
Dougary, The Times (London)
"Their message celebrates each woman's uniqueness. By
insisting on a world as if women mattered, and also the joy of getting there,
the Guerrilla Girls pass the ultimate test: they make us both laugh and fight;
both happy and strong." - Gloria Steinem
In the last few years, the Guerrilla Girls have appeared at
over 100 universities and museums all over the world. With wit and outrageous
imagery they expose sexism, racism and corruption in politics, art, film and
pop culture.
Want to keep up with the girls? Visit guerrillagirls.com. Do it now!!!!!
Works Cited
I enjoyed the animated presentation. I didn't know anything about the Guerrilla Girls before I watched the video. The billboard saying that no woman has ever won the best director Oscar disappointed me. When I looked it up to confirm, a saw a long list of white guys until I reached Kathryn Bigelow, who won in 2009 for The Hurt Locker. Still, it's really sad that she is the only female director to win an Oscar on a list that goes back to 1927!
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