A Documentary Herstory of Women Artists in Revolution
This is a compilation of documents, including newspaper articles, editorials, correspondence, flyers, writings and manifestos, by Women Artists in Revolution W.A.R. from 1960 to 1971. It combines the oppositional strategies to conventional circuits, not only of open access and immediate archive, as exemplified by the Art Workers’ Coalition’s (AWC) publications from 1969, but also of alternative/underground press publications, such as RAT, Goodbye to All That and The East Village Other. W.A.R. was a splinter group of the AWC, which suffered from patriarchal sexual and identity assumptions stifling feminist and black liberation expression and representation. Some W.A.R. members, such as Lucy Lippard, Poppy Johnson and Faith Ringgold, were members of more than one of these groups, including the Guerrilla Art Action Group (GAAG), Ad Hoc Women Artists’ Committee, and Women Students and Artists for Black Art Liberation (WSABAL).