Publications.
Pasting Over The Patriarchy
Feminist artist Mary Beth Edelson uses famous religious imagery in her piece Some Living American Women Artists (1972) to critique the patriarchal society that conservative Christianity created. In doing so, she contradicts traditional Biblical theology that says women ought to be subservient to men and makes them equal by quite literally giving women a place at the table. Read the full essay below.
The Seasons of Jasper
Jasper Johns was a formative artist of the late 1900s. Johns helped set forth an alternative to Abstract Expressionism in the US and worked also in the modernist realm. Through his use of shreds of newspaper, found objects, and even mass-produced goods, Johns crossed the line drawn between fine art and mass culture. Read the full essay below.