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Where are the women in art?

Where are the women in art?” (Unlock Art) – Tate, 2014, 5:48 -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbUkraQIYv8

A short look into the relative absence of women in Eurocentric art history and the reinterpretation of such history today. Interesting double standards are explored including the censorship of women painters who objectified male bodies.

From the video's description: Girls actress Jemima Kirke (known as Jessa Johansson in the HBO series) addresses the topic of women in art (or the lack them). She looks at the changing role of female artists in a male dominated art world over the centuries - and how some of them eventually took on the establishment in the 1970s.