This book documents a tectonic change in the way women portray themselves in art
. Historically, women were depicted as a projection of male fantasies, prejudice
s and relationships. However in the 1970s, for the first time, female artists be
gan to investigate visual representations of their own selves.
They studied t
heir own bodies and created the prospect of determined feminine identities. Edit
or Gabriele Schor explores the Feminist Avant-Garde to emphasise the role that t
hese artists played for the last four decades. The results are provocative, radi
cal, poetic, ironic, angry, cynical and heartfelt.
