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Sue Williams. (American, born 1954)

...a post-feminist and post-theoretical, rather than a positivist, discourse. Her painterly technique played on a very conscious formal degeneration and crafted hysteria that used incompetence and anger as an artistic strategy; this was in marked contrast to work produced by feminists before...

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Nancy Spero. Notes in Time. (1979)

Notes in Time. Nancy Spero (American, 1926-2009). (1979). Cut-and-pasted painted paper, gouache, and pencil on joined sheets of paper, 24 sheets Overall: 20 x 210' (50.8 x 6400.8 cm) 22 frames @ 25 x 116 x 1 15/16" 1 frame @ 25 x 61 x 1 15/16" 1 frame @ 25 x 88 x 1 15/16". Gift of Harriet and ...

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Laurie Simmons. 1st Bathroom/Woman Standing, from the series Interiors. 1978

1st Bathroom/Woman Standing, from the series Interiors. Laurie Simmons (American, born 1949). 1978. Silver dye bleach print, 3 3/16 x 4 7/8" (8.1 x 12.4 cm). Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz Fund. © 2010 Laurie Simmons

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Nancy Spero. To the Revolution XI. 1981

To the Revolution XI. Nancy Spero (American, 1926-2009). 1981. Zinc cut, composition: 18 13/16" x 8' 3/4" (47.8 x 245.8 cm); sheet: 20 1/4" x 9' 2 3/8" (51.4 x 280.4 cm). Publisher: unpublished. Printer: the artist, New York. Edition: unique. John B. Turner Fund. © 2010 Nancy Spero

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Kiki Smith. All Souls. 1988

All Souls. Kiki Smith (American, born Germany 1954). 1988. Screenprint, composition and sheet (overall): 71 1/4 x 181 1/8" (181 x 460 cm). Printer: the artist. Publisher: unpublished. Edition: several known variants. Riva Castleman Endowment Fund. © 2010 Kiki Smith

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Sherrie Levine. After El Lissitzky. 1984

After El Lissitzky. Sherrie Levine (American, born 1947). 1984. Gouache, ink, and pencil on paper, 14 x 11" (35.6 x 27.9 cm). The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift. © 2010 Sherrie Levine

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Wangechi Mutu. Yo Mama. 2003

Yo Mama. Wangechi Mutu (Kenyan, born 1972). 2003. Ink, mica flakes, pressure-sensitive synthetic polymer sheeting, cut-and-pasted printed paper, painted paper, and synthetic polymer paint on paper, Overall: 59 1/8 x 85" (150.2 x 215.9 cm). The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings ...

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Lynda Benglis. Now. 1973

Now. Lynda Benglis (American, born 1941). 1973. Video (color, sound), 12 min. Acquired through the generosity of Barbara Pine. © 2010 Lynda Benglis. Courtesy Video Data Bank

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Ida Applebroog. (American, born 1929)

...sinister comic-strips, combining irony and intense tenderness. She is best known for her multi-partite paintings that, as part of the legacy of feminist practice in the 1970s, deal with the ‘trivial details’ of everyday life as if they had the scale and weight of subject-matter of traditional...

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Hans Bellmer. (German, 1902-1975)

...last 20 years of his life. While his work was sometimes condemned as violently misogynistic, it was also treated sympathetically by at least one feminist critic, Xavière Gauthier, and by writers and critics such as Jacques Lacan, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Michel Butor and Patrick Waldberg. Peter...

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Pat Steir. (American, born 1940)

...signs and the rendering of such simple motifs as birds, shells, flowers, mountains and clouds. In the late 1970s Steir was on the board of the feminist magazines Printed Matter and Heresies; she also worked on Semio-Text magazine. Her critically acclaimed series Breughel (A Vanitas of Styles)...

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Rosemarie Trockel. (German, born 1952)

...ironic comments on the traditionally feminine occupation of knitting placed in a context of mass production. Other works by Trockel also have a feminist theme. A piece consisting of a steel cube fitted with six hot plates in two parallel diagonal lines (Untitled, 1988; Cologne, Mus. Ludwig)...