1. Please identify and cite one federal statute that regulates pornography on the internet, and also summarize (in not less than 100 words) what that statute accomplishes (please also post the hyperli

AH 270: Art/Identity/Politics

Week 2, Module 3: Early Feminist (“first generation”) Art in the United States

Please note: “first generation feminist arts” should note be mistaken with “first wave feminism”—these are totally different moments of feminism (see the lecture).

Important woman artists who predate “first generation feminism”: Mary Cassatt, Käthe Kollwitz, Hannah Höch, Georgia O’Keeffe, Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell….

Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock, Lavender Mist (1950)

Clement Greenberg, “formalist criticism,” modernism, “quality”

Yoko Ono, Cut Piece (1964)

--participation performance, performativity

Shigeko Kubota, Vagina Painting (1965)

Ernst Kirchner, “penis as paintbrush,” male virility, muse

Carolee Schneemann, Eye/Body (1963), Meat Joy (1964), Interior Scroll (1975)

--Minoan Snake Goddess, Jungian Archetypes, Dionysian Festivals

--sexual object vs. sexual subject

Mary Beth Edelson, Some Living American Women Artists/Last Supper (1972), Woman

Rising/Moon Mouth (1973-74), Woman Rising/Spirit (1974), Woman Rising/On

Site (1973), Centering Ritual with my Daughter (1974), See for Yourself:

Pilgrimage to Neolithic Cave (1977), Mourning our Lost Herstory (1977),

Memorials to 9 Million Women Burned during the Christian Era (1977)

Anna Mendieta, Silhueta Series (1979), Tree of Life Series (1977), Flowers on Body

(1973), Rape Scene (1973), Tied Up Woman (1973)

Linda Nochlin, Buy my Apples, Buy my Bananas (1972)

--inversion

Sylvia Sleigh, Turkish Bath (1973)

Ingres, The Turkish Bath (1862)

The “Male Gaze”

Self Surveillance

Sherry Ortner: Men/Culture—Women/Nature

Bipolar field of representation

Essentialism, “feminine sensibility”

Great Goddess

Inversion