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Womanhouse:
Womanhouse (30 January - 28
February 1972) was a feminist art
installation and performance space
organized by Judy Chicago and
Miriam Schapiro, co-founders of
the California Institute of the Arts
(CalArts) Feminist Art Program. Chicago, Schapiro, their students and
women artists from the local community participated.This group of
artists found an old run-down mansion and appropriated it into “Womanhouse”. Throughout this mansion,
contained a variety feminist installations, sculptors, performances, and
other forms of art. By transforming a
“woman’s space” (such as a kitchen)
into a space corrupted by radical
feminist art truly made a statement.
Here they spoke out about women
issues, as well as criticizing the patriarchy. This helped women artists
and architects gain recognition and
acknowledgment that their work
could be seen on the same level as
men. By using a mansion as their
chosen setting, this furthered their
statement
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Woolf, Elsie de:
Portrait of Elsie de Wolfe, 1944
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Woolf, Elise de:
Interior of Elsie de Wolfe, Le petit
Trianon, 1936