Une avant-garde féministe (a feminist avant-garde)

Their works are provocative, radical, poetic or ironic... Presenting the work of 64 women artists, this book reveals how, in the 1970s, they took control of female representation in photography, video and performance art. By drastically changing the perception of women in art and reversing the traditional projection of male fantasies, these artists created a new "image of women". The book, through five main themes (Housewife/Mother/Wife; Confinement/Evasion; Beauty Dictate/Female Body; Female Sexuality; Identity/Role Play), presents a wide variety of works, which in turn denounce sexism, social inequalities or the structures of patriarchy. The curator and founder of the Sammlung Verbund Collection, Gabriele Schor, refers to this pivotal moment as the "feminist avant-garde", underlining the pioneering role played by those artists who rejected what had always gone before. Giving birth to new modes of expression in all artistic fields, they carried an emancipatory voice that continues to inspire the contemporary generation to this day.