While riding the GO home this evening I got thinking about different ideas on ways to depict and teach children (for example) about fairy tales. How could something that’s so ingrained into our minds be even slightly influenced? Fairy tales especially are passed on through our parents, the educational system through both oral and written traditions. (more…)

- Hannah Wilke, May Stevens, Hung Liu, Karen Finley, Judy Chicago, - Feminist analysis suggests that the “art” system and art history had institutionalized sexism – patriarchal society at large
- Used the classic strategy of the disenfranchised as did racial minorities, lesbians and gays, restudied and reinterpreted history
- The notion of the patriarchal “male gaze” directed at the objectified female OTHER
- Yvonne Rainer, Silvia Kolbowski, Victor Burgin, Cindy Sherman (culture of role playing), Barbara Krugers
- Use of narrative, autobiography, decoration, popular culture, helped develop POSTMODERNISM

Atkins, Robert. ARTSPEAK A Guide to Conteporary Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords, 1945 to the Present Second Edition. New York: Abbeville Press Publishers, 1997.