Minimalism and Conceptual Art opened the way for a variety of experimental practices in different media.
c. 1965 - 1980
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Eleanor Antin, Carving: A Traditional Sculpture
The idea of sculpture was the subject of Antin’s work, which interrogates beauty, gender, and “traditional” art.
Lynda Benglis, Omega, and Judy Chicago, Pasadena Lifesaver, Blue Series, Number 4
Purity and geometry, knotted and explosive: two approaches to feminist art from the early 1970s.
Eva Hesse, Untitled (Rope Piece)
This sculpture was hanging in the artist’s studio at the time of her death; it can be hung in numerous ways.
Jackie Winsor, #1 Rope
Women’s labor and the passage of time are evoked in this sculpture constructed of organic materials.
Eva Hesse, Untitled
Her friends were into high conceptualism, but Hesse’s own approach is more playful, bodily, and feminist.
Mary Kelly, Post-Partum Document
Motherhood is explored and documented—but not sugarcoated—in Kelly’s five-year-long project.
Louise Bourgeois, Cumul I
Male and female forms reveal and conceal themselves simultaneously in this polished marble sculpture.