Stafford Library: Women's Studies Resource Guide: Feminist Art

Artists

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Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010)
From The Columbia Encyclopedia
French-American artist; Characterized by organic forms, her sculpture is extremely personal, sensual, and symbolic, often dealing with female identity and sexuality.
Judy Chicago (1939- )
From The Penguin Biographical Dictionary of Women
Judy Chicago is a leading feminist artist, whose work is exhibited in many of the major art collections in the United States.
The Guerrilla Girls
The Guerrilla Girls are an anonymous group of women who work to expose and challenge the sexism and racism in the art world, while wearing gorilla masks to hide their identities.

Devouring Frida by Margaret A. Lindauer
Call Number: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
ISBN: 081956348X
Publication Date: 1999-04-30
Woman: The Incredible Life of Yoko Ono by Alan Clayson; Barb Jungr; Robb Johnson
Call Number: ebrary eBook
ISBN: 9781842402207
Publication Date: 2004

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Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954): Topic Page
Mexican painter; Using vivid colour and a naive style that was deliberately based on Mexican folk art, she created deeply personal, moving, and emotional paintings.
Yoko Ono (1933- ) Topic Page
Multimedia artist, born in Tokyo, Japan.
Cindy Sherman (1954 - ): Topic Page
US photographer; Her images explore the role of women, the depiction of women in the media, and the physical and mental identity women possess as a result of their place in modern culture.
Nancy Spero (1926 - 2009)
U.S. artist who, since the mid-60s, has worked on paper and whose preoccupation with abuse against women has been the principal concern of her often disturbing work, e.g. The Torture of Women (1976).