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A NEW EROS: SEXUALITY IN WOMEN’S ART BEFORE
THE FEMINIST ART MOVEMENT
by
Rachel Middleman
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(ART HISTORY)
August 2010
Copyright 2010 Rachel Middleman
Object Description
| Title | A new eros: sexuality in women's art before the feminist art movement |
| Author | Middleman, Rachel |
| Author email | middlema@usc.edu; rachelmiddleman@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Art History |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2010-05-13 |
| Date submitted | 2010 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2010-07-17 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Meyer, Richard E. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Troy, Nancy J. Lippit, Akira Mizuta |
| Abstract | While the 1970s are known for the rise of feminism and female sexual imagery, this dissertation demonstrates that women were already creating a wide range of sexually themed art in the 1960s. Even before the formation of the first women artists’ group, Women Artists in Revolution, signaled the beginning of a collaborative feminist art movement in 1969, female artists working in a variety of media—including filmmaker Carolee Schneemann, painter Marjorie Strider, sculptor Hannah Wilke, and collagist Anita Steckel—began redefining the boundaries of contemporary art through their sexually explicit works. This dissertation argues that erotic art made by women artists was central to the radical changes that took place in American art and politics during this period—from the crumbling of modernist aesthetics to the expanding field of art practice to the emergence of the feminist art movement. In the midst of a male-dominated contemporary art world, the public display of sexual content by female artists challenged the paradigm of formalism and laid the groundwork for a discussion of gender and sexuality in representation. |
| Keyword | Carolee Schneemann; Hannah Wilke; Anita Steckel; Marjorie Strider; pop art; postminimalism; performance; Judson Dance Theater; body art; feminist art; feminism; women in art; erotic art; feminist art history; pinup; art in the 1960s; fight censorship group; Judith Bernstein; Louise Bougeois; Martha Edelheit; Anne Sharp; Barbara Nessim; Joan Semmel; Eunice Golden; Juanita McNeely; Joan Glueckman; women's art movement; sexual imagery; eroticism in art; experimental film |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Coverage date | 1960/1975 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3193 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Middleman, Rachel |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Middleman-3849 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume32/etd-Middleman-3849.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | A NEW EROS: SEXUALITY IN WOMEN’S ART BEFORE THE FEMINIST ART MOVEMENT by Rachel Middleman A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (ART HISTORY) August 2010 Copyright 2010 Rachel Middleman |
