Tate Modern highlights pop art by women ignored by sexist establishment

[niyad]

Tate Modern highlights pop art by women ignored by sexist establishment

Many of the works overlooked in the 1960s and 70s will be seen in public for the first time when they go on display in London


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Friends, 1971, by Kiki Kogelnik is part of the World Goes Pop exhibition at Tate Modern.


Work by female artists from the 1960s and 70s that was marginalised and ignored by a sexist art establishment is finally getting recognition in a major pop art show at Tate Modern. “It’s never too late,” said Jessica Morgan, curator of the World Goes Pop exhibition, explaining how she and her fellow curators spent five years uncovering the hidden stories from an art movement largely remembered as Anglo-American and male.

The part played by female artists in particular had been “removed and erased” from the story of pop art. One of those artists is Judy Chicago who made her name in 1979 with her installation The Dinner Party, on permanent display at the Brooklyn Museum. Asked how sexist the art establishment was in the 60s, Chicago threw up her arms and exclaimed: “Oh my God! When I left graduate school I was exhibiting in a climate that was unbelievably inhospitable to women. It was a real struggle.”
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The Tate Modern exhibition contains about 160 works, most of which are going on display in the UK for the first time. Some of the pieces by both female and male artists are from parts of the world not normally associated with pop art – including eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East.
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She said the curators had been like excavators, discovering little-known works and stories from all over the world. “We encountered such an incredible bounty of work from all these different places. Much of it completely unfamiliar to me and my colleagues.”


http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/sep/14/tate-modern-pop-art-women-ignored-sexist-establishment

[CTyankee]

1. I was dying to go to the Tate Modern last year at this time but couldn't find a taker to go with me.

I thought a hop over the pond for a 4 full day art junket in London's Tates would be fun and great, but no one could go...

I still yearn to do so...but i don't want to go alone...

[niyad]

2. it would be a shame to deprive yourself of such a rich and wonderful experience simply because

you didn't have a companion. and, who knows what could open up for you???

[CTyankee]

3. I like having a friend to share it with, tho. I have a really good travel buddy who is

going with me to Taormina next April. I've been there once and loved it, and the whole island. One of the world's great vistas on Taormina. I liked Siricusa as well and plan to revisit...

[niyad]

4. that should be lovely.

[CTyankee]

5. I think Sicily is vastly underrated...it has a great history and shows very old traces of all

the empires that marched through it from Greece all the way to Germany/Italy in WW2 when we had to fight to take back the island...If you saw the old movie "Patton" you get to know a bit about that whole history...