Feminist protest art in the context of theory

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Art University of Isfahan

Abstract

Protest art is a current of contemporary art that is created by social activist artists and its purpose is to inform the general public about all kinds of institutionalized discrimination and oppression and to try to remove them from the society. Although much of the feminist art of the 1970s was protest art anyway, one group in particular earned the title "feminist protest art." After the social revolution of the 1960s in the United States, many artists (men and women) joined various political protest movements. Not only did many of the women artists active in the civil rights movement and protesting the Vietnam War participate in strikes and protest rallies, but they also founded their own feminist movements, in which social awareness and the struggle against women's oppression were combined with anti-semitic activities. They merged the war. This article aims to answer the question of what methods feminist artists used to express their protest art in the 1960s and 1970s and how the opinions of the second wave of feminism were reflected in such works with a descriptive and analytical method. The results show that since the second wave of feminism adopted a radical and irreconcilable approach, the artists of this movement have generally used sharp and biting language in their works