FEMINISM AND CONTEMPORARY ART/ THE REVOLUTIONARY POWER OF WOMEN'S LAUGHTER

The impact of women artists on the contemporary art movement has resulted in a powerful and innovative feminist reworking of traditi onal approaches to the theory and history of art. Feminism and Contemporary Art discusses the work of individual women artists withi n the context of the wider social, physical and political world. Featuring Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman, Nancy Spero, Elaine Reiche ck, Jeanne Silverthorne, Mary Kelly, Lorna Simpson, Hannah Wilke, Jenny Holzer, Kiki Smith and the Guerrila Girls.