Muses Prevail: Monday Muses: Womanhouse

Legendary feminist artists, Judy Chicago & Miriam Schapiro took on a progressive Feminist Art Program at the California Institute of the Arts. Womanhouse, a collection of installations and performances produced in a refurbished Los Angeles house in 1971-2 with help from their students, exaggerated the stereotypical normative roles of women as mothers and housekeepers to embrace a highly undervalued form of female labor and to demonstrate their rather oppressive stereotypes. Installations therefore took to specific destinations in the house where both a biological and social aspect could be represented. Cited Work: American Art Since 1945 by David Joselit

Womanhouse Video