Feminist Themes

in Art
Cultural Identity
Brandan Haag & Megan Norton
Cao Fei
(Video still) Whose Utopia?
My future is not a dream, 2006
Zoe
Buckman
Champ (2016)
Lin Tianmiao
Here or There, (2002)
Ana
Mendieta
Untitled (Facial Hair
Transplants) (1972)
Kumi
Machida
wind-up , 1997
Art Education Application
When teaching cultural identity to a high school class, students will be asked
to make a representation of their identity. Students will choose one social or
cultural group that they belong to and collect at least three images that relate
to that group. Students will then use the images they collected to create a
digital collage that represents their social or cultural identity. These images
will be presented to the class alongside an artist statement describing how the
students social or cultural group has influenced them as an artist.
Art Education Application
For an elementary level lesson the students will look at two toy ads. One
geared for boys and one for girls. Discuss the differences in the ads and how
they influence the roles of girls and boys. Have the kids write a short response
to Should boys and girls have to play with different toys? Why or why not?
Discuss the answers and identify gender stereotypes that is enforced in our
visual culture today.
Questions and Answers
How do these artists relate to one another, aside from being feminists?

How could the feminist movements influenced these artists?

How do these artists approach feminist ideas different from American artists?
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Citations
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female artists to see if this was true but came to the conclusion that it was not. I had always judged life
from my own experience as a person, who just happened to be a woman. (pp. 138144).
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