2008
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Fabienne Dumont, « Les plasticiennes et le Mouvement de Libération des Femmes dans l’entre-deux-mai français », Histoire de l'art (documents), ID : 10.3406/hista.2008.3250
The plasticians women and the feminist movement of liberation in french “entre-deux-moi”. The 1970’s saw the resurgence of a strong political involvement of artists, men and women, and a strong feminist involvement. This article analyses the meeting between the artistic and socio-political movements across the place and the creation of plasticians women in Lrance. Some figures can first help to identify their place on the artistic scene, whose sexism then highlighted leads to the formation of feminist collectives. In a second time, the analysis focuses on a few works representative of the dominant themes : private lives and materials coming from female learning ; art and body or getting rid of the standards by performance ; finally, public space and language, deconstruction work of gaze assumptions. The works selected include a feminist involvement, questioning the gender identity constructions and the place of women in society, by using materials from a female inheritance or by appropriating in an innovative way those used in contemporary art.