Anti-Feminism ? What is anti-feminism? The last five centuries and more there has existed an anti-women’s art movement which has finally developed into an anti-feminist art movement today. How can | say this? To begin | will first ask you another question, How many great women artists of the past do you know about? If you find your- self stumbling over a vague memory of recorded women you are probably not alone. Or are you aware of the thousands of professional female and male artists par- ticipating in the ‘art movement’ today? Are you aware of « ’ the women and men artists with a feminist consciousness actively involved in creative pursuits? Let us consider that art begins with a sincere and dedicated desire to understand and act on the outside world. This creative process completes itself in an emo- tional resolution which reflects some aspects of reality. It’s possible to be a person with a humanist consciousness and transform it by reacting and expressing ideas and feelings about the world she/he participates in. If this means using diverse mediums such as earth based or synthetic materials to using one’s own body they should be recognized as probably the strongest medium for conveying the idea. When an artist connects with her/ his past, present or future the message being expressed should be acknowledged for what it is, whether it be social, political, decorative, environmental, mythical etc. However, Judy Chicago, an active artist with a hu- manist consciousness has finished a sculptural piece worked on by a few hundred women and men artists. Its first showing was in San Francisco in 1979 as well as its last showing. The reason for this is no other galleries across North America will display it accomodating its enormous size is one reason but more pronouncely it is considered a political feminist piece, therefore in the minds of anti-feminists, unworthy of recognition. The anti-feminist art movement has been negligent of cate- gorizing different women artists in a “‘box’’. Artists such as Chicago, Schipiro, Hesse, Jonas, Mobus, Leonard, Zucker to name a few. This box is called ‘feminist art’ and ‘is undermined by media for some specific reasons. They are women; they are artists and they are humanists. Whereas men are not given categorizations that they are male; they are artists and they they have a feminist con- sciousness. One example of political anti-feminism began in Germany with the National Socialist Party which received its most consistent support from a group of disgruntled veterans. *This patriarchal solidarity recognized that the sexual revolution and feminism as forces to be dealt with seriously. The women’s movement developed late and not until five years before Nazi party came to power feminism had organized some millions of German women into a huge federation of women’s organizations. Naziism set about collapsing it in a methodical way by enforcing elections, commandeering leadership positions, purging feminist leaders both from the movement and from public life and then pre-empting the feminist organizations into the Nazi folds under the orders of the Party’s split groups headed and controlled by men close to the party and anti- feminist women collaborators. 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The part women were assigned to play in Hitler’s Germany was to be one strictly confined to utter dedication to motherhood and family (based on the sound assumption that nationalist emotion is largely imbibed in early childhood through parental influence) but what actually happened was women were to make up the factory population which serviced and produced the German war machines. If a wave, on coming into a surf zone, rears high as though gathering all its strength for the final act of its life, if the crest forms all along its advancing front and then begins to curl forward, if the whole mass of water plunges suddenly with a booming roar into its trough — then you may take it these waves are visitors from some very distant part of the ocean, that they have traveled long and far before their final dissolu- tion at your feet. L. Lippard From the Centre 1976 For many culturally and biologically based reasons women and men pursuing the creative process will ap- proach it differently which should not be ignored but embraced. And there are women doctors and there are doctors and there are artists and there are men artists. Laura Hackett *From Kate Millet’s Sexual Politics Misc. BOOK SALE 1. Artistic Anatomy. Richer. $10.00 2. Atlas of Anatomy for Artists. Hardcover. $5.00 3. ’Ello Morgentaler? 150 Caricatures. Aislin. $2.00 Interested? Ph. 684-0855. Ed. or mark a note ‘X’ and leave it at the main office. Moon message by Barbara Cruikshank An i Feminism? What is antifeminizm? The last five centu more there has existed an antiwomen’s art movement which has finally developed into an anti-feminist art movement today. How can I say this? To begin | will first ask you another question. How many great women artists of the past do you know about? If you find your {elf stumbling over a vague memory of recorded women ‘you are probably not alone. Or are you aware of the thousands ‘of profesional female and male artists ar. Tiipating in the “art movement’ today? Are you aware of the women and men artists with a feminist consciousness actively involved in ereatve pursuits? Let us consider that art begins with a sincere and dedicated desire to understand and act on the outside world. This creative process completes ielf in an emo- tional resolution which reflects some aspects of reality. It's posible to be a person with a humanist consciousness and transform it by reacting and expressing idest and feelings about the world she/he participates in. If this means using diverse mediums such earth based or Eynthetie materials to using one’s own body they should be recognized. as probably the strongest medium for conveying the ides. 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This box is called “eminist art? and i undermined by media for some specific reasons. ‘They are women; they ae artists and they are humanists, Whereas men are not given categorizations that they are male; they ar artists and they they have a feminist con- feiousness, ‘One example of political antifeminism began in GGormany with the National Socialist Party which received its most consistent support from @ group of disgruntled veteran. This patriarchal solidarity recognized that the {exual revolution and feminism as forces tobe dealt with teriously, The women’s movement developed late and not Lnti ive years before Nazi party came to power feminism had organized some millions of German women into @ huge federation of women’s organizations. 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Lippard From the Centre 1976 For many culturally and biologically based reasons ‘women and men pursuing the creative process will ap- proach it differently which should not be ignored but | embraced. And there are women doctors and there are doctors and there are artists and there are men artists. Laura Hackett | *From Kate Millet’ Sexual Politics. Misc. BOOK SALE 1. Artistic Anatomy. Richer. $10.00 2. Atlas of Anatomy for Artists. Hardcover. $5.00 3. Ello Morgentaler? 150 Caricatures. Aislin, $2.00 Interested? Ph. 684-0855, Ed. or mark a note leave it at the main office. and ‘Moon message by Barbara Cruikshank