Feminist Art and Culture

Pacific Standard Time: Art in LA 1945-1980 Doin' It in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman's Building

The Ben Maltz Gallery will present Doin' It in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman's Building from October 2, 2011 through January, 2012. It is an exhibition, catalog and series of public events that document, contextualize and pay tribute to the groundbreaking work of feminist artists and art cooperatives that were centered in and around the Los Angeles Woman’s Building in the 1970s and 1980s. Doin’ It In Public is part of Pacific Standard Time: Art in LA 1945-1980, an unprecedented collaboration of more than fifty cultural institutions across Southern California, which are coming together to tell the story of the birth of the LA art scene. This project is partially funded through grants from the Getty Foundation.

Several courses will study Pacific Standard Time exhibitions and/or feminist art and the Woman's Building. The resources below are provided to assist with research.

Online Resources

"Why HaveThere Been No Great Women Artists?" Linda Nochlin's Seminal essay from ArtNews, 1971

Feminist Timeline from the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art

Woman's Building Image Archive

Woman's Building Oral Histories on YouTube

Suggested Reading + Artifacts (from and about the Woman's Building)

Video Resources

AA R388 A7	Arlene Raven: Interview
D C5639	Chicana by Sylvia Morales
AA G8377	Guerrillas in Our Midst, a profile of the Guerrilla Girls
AA H4737	The Heretics, a film by Joan Braderman documenting the Second Wave of the Women's Movement.
AA C542 J8	Judy Chicago & the California Girls
AA O88	Our City Dreams, profiles of five New York artists: Nancy Spero, Marina Abramovic, Kiki Smith, Ghada Amer, and Swoon.
AA S6957	Sphinxes Without Secrets, a Film by Maria Beatty about women and the history of performance art
AA S8677	Suffragettes in the Silent Cinema
AA W42	We Want Roses Too (Vogliamo Anche Le Rose), a documentary which aims to portray the deep change brought on by the sexual revolution and the feminist movement in Italy during the 1960s and 1970s.
AA W56	Who Does She Think She Is?
AA W65	Womanhouse
AA W6527	Women Artists: The Other Side of the Picture

Books

N72 F45 P78	The Power of feminist art : the American movement of the 1970s, history and impact
NX180 F4 S78	A studio of their own : the legacy of the Fresno feminist experiment
NX180 F4 W54	By our own hands : the woman artist's movement, Southern California, 1970-1976
Reserve	Chrysalis Magazine