Introduction: Artists for Political Engagement: A Table for Women and Gender Non-conforming Artists

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Abstract

Nearly 50 years ago (1974-1979), feminist artist Judy Chicago carefully selected 39 place settings for remarkable women, historical and mythical, in Western Civilization. Now installed in the permanent gallery of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, the work symbolizes the institutionalization of feminist art in the museum space. Nonetheless, elite institutions still have fewer women artists in their collections and programming. As the definition of “feminism” expands to include non-binary, third gender, and transgender people, it also expands to address the impediments to recognition of these individuals as artists. This chapter will problematize a historical legacy of women and gender non-conforming people being recognized as “artists.” Frequently, they have found themselves on the margins. Often, intersectional issues come into play. As feminist ideology spread around the globe, many women artists became vocal opponents of political regimes or pioneers of civic activism; in more recent decades, LGBTQI artists have also pushed back against cultural and political barriers. However, the political engagements of these groups in the art-making process have not received great attention. This anthology focuses on feminist political engagement from the 1970s to the present time. Chapters are discussed in the context of geopolitical inequalities of wealth distribution and industrial development. With cultural geography and national identity as ideological strategies, these artists continue to highlight and challenge the disturbing legacies of colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, communism, and other political ideologies that are correlated with patriarchy, primogeniture, sexism, or misogyny.

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Pyun, K. (2022). Introduction: Artists for Political Engagement: A Table for Women and Gender Non-conforming Artists. In Expanding the Parameters of Feminist Artivism (pp. 3–26). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09378-4_1

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