"Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958–1968" Exhibition
Brooklyn Museum
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This presentation, the first major exhibition to explore in depth the contributions of female Pop artists, expands the definition of Pop art and reevaluates the role of the women in the movement. It features more than fifty works by Pop art’s most significant female artists and includes many works that have not been shown in nearly forty years.
Although radical social changes were taking place in America in the 1960s, the female Pop artists of the time remained largely unacknowledged by contemporaneous art critics and academics. Relegated to the margins of art history by discrimination, historical precedent, and social expectations, these women produced work of biting social commentary frequently informed by their personal histories.
Works from the Museum’s collection, none of which were seen at the exhibition’s Philadelphia venue and many of which are on view for the first time, include Squeeze Me and You Can’t Catch Me by Mara McAfee: Dear Diana and My Love We Won’t by De Saint Phalle; and Cents Sign Travelling from Broadway to Africa via Guadeloupe by Chryssa.
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Schedule
from October 25, 2010 to January 09, 2011