WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution was an exhibition of international women's art presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles from March 4–July 16, 2007.[1] It later traveled to the National Museum of Women in the Arts (September 21--December 16, 2007) and the PS1 Contemporary Art Center, where it was on view February 17–May 12, 2008. The exhibition featured works from 120 artists and artists' groups from around the world.[2]
Editors | Cornelia Butler Lisa Gabrielle Mark |
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Cover artist | Martha Rosler, "Hot House, or Harem," from the series "Body Beautiful, or Beauty Knows No Pain," 1966-72, detail |
Subject | Art and the feminist revolution |
Genre | Information and Reference Book |
Published | 2007 The MIT Press |
ISBN | 978-0-914357-99-5 |
The 2007 exhibition catalogue—also titled WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution[3]—documents this first major retrospective of art and the feminist revolution. Edited by Cornelia Butler and Lisa Gabrielle Mark, it has essays by Butler, Judith Russi Kirshner, Catherine Lord, Marsha Meskimmon, Richard Meyer, Helen Molesworth, Peggy Phelan, Nelly Richard, Valerie Smith, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, and Jenni Sorkin.[4][5]
WACK! surveyed work by more than 120 artists in a wide variety of media, arranged by themes including Abstraction, "Autophotography," Body as Medium, Family Stories, Gender Performance, Knowledge as Power, Making Art History, and others.[6]
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