women & quilts .ppt
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Presentation for Art 508-U of IdahoTRANSCRIPT
WOMEN and QUILTSMore Than Just Decorative
by Jeanne Airdfor Professor M. Deyasi
Art 508Department of Art and Design
University of Idaho2009
There is a hierarchy inthe arts: decorative artat the bottom, and thehuman form at the top.Because we are men.
—Le Corbusier andAmedee Ozenfant,
1918
Fiber art in general and art quilts specifically,are considered inferior to painting and
sculpture because of an aesthetic hierarchythat has deemed certain forms of art, thoseusually created by men, as dominant over
those art forms created primarily by women.
Portrait of an Old Man with a Boy byMarietta Robusti Tintoretto, c. 1585
Gunta Stolzl & Anni Albers
Old Mistresses, Women, Art and Ideology
The First Wave of Feminism
Second Wave of Feminism
Project Womanhouse
Miriam Schapiro’s Femmages
Third Wave of Feminism
Fiber Art of the 1970’s
Quilts as Art