WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution
EditorsCornelia Butler
Lisa Gabrielle Mark
Cover artistMartha Rosler, "Hot House, or Harem," from the series "Body Beautiful, or Beauty Knows No Pain," 1966-72, detail
SubjectArt and the feminist revolution
GenreInformation and Reference Book
Published2007 The MIT Press
ISBN978-0-914357-99-5

WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution was an exhibition of international women's art presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles from March 4–July 16, 2007.[1] It later traveled to the National Museum of Women in the Arts (September 21--December 16, 2007) and the PS1 Contemporary Art Center, where it was on view February 17–May 12, 2008. The exhibition featured works from 120 artists and artists' groups from around the world.[2]

The 2007 exhibition catalogue—also titled WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution[3]—documents this first major retrospective of art and the feminist revolution. Edited by Cornelia Butler and Lisa Gabrielle Mark, it has essays by Butler, Judith Russi Kirshner, Catherine Lord, Marsha Meskimmon, Richard Meyer, Helen Molesworth, Peggy Phelan, Nelly Richard, Valerie Smith, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, and Jenni Sorkin.[4][5]

WACK! surveyed work by more than 120 artists in a wide variety of media, arranged by themes including Abstraction, "Autophotography," Body as Medium, Family Stories, Gender Performance, Knowledge as Power, Making Art History, and others.[6]

Artists included in the exhibition and catalogue

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References

  1. ^ "WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution". The Museum of Contemporary Art. 2007. Retrieved 13 September 2022.
  2. ^ Johnson, Ken (2008-02-15). "WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution - Art - Review". The New York Times. Retrieved 2014-03-31.
  3. ^ Butler, Cornelia H.; Mark, Lisa Gabrielle (2007). WACK! : art and the feminist revolution. Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.). Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-914357-99-5. OCLC 73743482.
  4. ^ Ozler, Levent (16 February 2007). "Wack!: Art and the Feminist Revolution". Dexigner. Archived from the original on 9 July 2018. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
  5. ^ "VoCA Recommends...WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Vancouver". View on Canadian Art. 27 December 2008. Archived from the original on 24 May 2019. Retrieved 31 March 2014.((cite web)): CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  6. ^ "WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution". MIT Press. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  7. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-07-07. Retrieved 2015-03-07.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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