Women Art Revolution

Hershman-Leeson, Lynn. W.a.r: !women Art Revolution. New York, NY: Zeitgeist Films, 2012.

Women Art Revolution is a documentary which follows the evolution of Feminist art through the 1970s. The documentary shows extensive interviews with a lot of the key players in the early feminist art movement, who, spurred in part by an atmosphere of civil unrest during and after the Vietnam war, each contributed to making radical changes in the art world. They recognized the inequalities in representation and saw how women were practically barred from art institutions. As a response they implanted their own DIY solutions, created alternative spaces in which to present their art, or used performance to bring to light the shortcomings of their society directly to their impromptu audience.