I’m just going to link (without comment) to Historiann‘s wonderfully compelling post, Feminist Art, Feminist History, and Public History: Friction in the Archives?
Plus I got to play with the words of her post title which should win this year’s “top 10 best blog post titles award.” I could wordplay all night with this but I sense a future thesis title like, “Friction in the Archives: A History of Public Feminist Art.”
ok, one comment. Art critic or not, did she have to take the “Big Eye” down?
Seriously. Great post. And I wasn’t kidding about Big Eye or the title.
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Hey–thanks Stuart. Glad you liked the title–I loves me some Natalie Davis!
(I was only kidding about having Big Eye pictures in my bedroom. They were really huge when I was a preschooler, and I remember really, really wanting one back then. I originally wanted a picture of one of the Big Eye kitties, but the harlequin girl is kind of a classic of the genre, no?)
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Historiann,
You may be correct about the harlequin girl, when I saw her it brought back many hazy childhood memories of the early 70′s. It’s only through memory that I remember these. We never had one in our house (I think) but they were ubiquitous.
That aside, your post and the ensuing comments raise several provocative points, none of which I’d ever thought about before. I’m challenged in such a way that I can’t really offer anything substantive to the discourse. I’m still just contemplating how I feel.
Cheers
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