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

[NCarolinawoman]

1. When I was an undergraduate in the early 70's,

my art professors told me to sign my paintings with my first two initials and then my last name. They said it would have a more positive mystique about it. It would be viewed more favorably.

Went to grad school in the 80's and most of the women, including myself, said "the Heck with that!"

[niyad]

2. sadly, your experience was not uncommon in the 70's. probably still isn't. and good

for you and your friends in the 80's.

where can we see some of your work?