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A landmark exhibition on display at the Brooklyn Museum from April 21 through September 17, 2017, We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 196585 examines the political, social, cultural, and aesthetic priorities of women of color during the emergence of second-wave feminism. It showcases the work of black women artists such as Emma Amos, Maren Hassinger, Senga Nengudi, Lorraine O'Grady, Howardena Pindell, Faith Ringgold, and Betye Saar, making it one of the first major exhibitions to highlight the voices and experiences of women of color. In so doing, it reorients conversations around race, feminism, political action, art production, and art history in this significant historical period.

The accompanying Sourcebook republishes an array of rare and little-known documents from the period by artists, writers, cultural critics, and art historians such as Gloria Anzaldúa, James Baldwin, bell hooks, Lucy R. Lippard, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Lowery Stokes Sims, Alice Walker, and Michelle Wallace. These documents include articles, manifestos, and letters from significant publications as well as interviews, some of which are reproduced in facsimile form. The Sourcebook also includes archival materials, rare ephemera, and an art-historical overview essay. Helping readers to move beyond standard narratives of art history and feminism, this volume will ignite further scholarship while showing the true breadth and diversity of black womens engagement with art, the art world, and politics from the 1960s to the 1980s.

Art --- mezzotint [process] --- racial discrimination --- feminism --- #breakthecanon --- Feminist art --- Racism --- Social movements --- Women --- Blackness --- Black feminism --- anno 1960-1969 --- anno 1970-1979 --- anno 1980-1989 --- United States of America

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This text analyses how three artists - Adrian Piper, Nancy Spero & Mary Kelly - worked with the visual dimensions of language in the 1960s & 1970s. These artists used text and images of writing to challenge female stereotypes, addressing viewers & asking them to participate in the project of imagining women beyond familiar words & images of subordination. The work explores this dimension of their work through the concept of 'the other woman', a utopian wish to reach women & correspond with them across similarities & differences. To make the artwork's aspirations more concrete, it places the artists in correspondence with three writers - Angela Davis, Valerie Solanas, & Laura Mulvey - who also addressed the limited range of images through which women are allowed to become visible.

Women in art. --- Women in literature. --- Other (Philosophy) in art. --- Other (Philosophy) in literature. --- Feminist art criticism. --- Art and literature. --- Literature and art --- Literature and painting --- Literature and sculpture --- Painting and literature --- Sculpture and literature --- Aesthetics --- Literature --- Art criticism --- Feminist criticism --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Piper, Adrian, --- Spero, Nancy, --- Kelly, Mary, --- Spero, Nenci, --- Piper, Adrian M. S., --- Criticism and interpretation. --- LETTERATURA FEMMINISTA. --- ARTE FEMMINISTA. --- Address. --- Adrian Piper. --- Aggression. --- Black Feminism. --- Codex Artaud. --- Feminist Art. --- Feminist Imaginary. --- Feminist Publics. --- Feminist Visual Studies. --- Feminist Writing. --- Mary Kelly. --- Maternal Femininity. --- Nancy Spero. --- Post-Partum Document. --- Racism. --- Textual Correspondences. --- The Sign Woman. --- black female body. --- fantasies. --- fears. --- images of writing. --- visual compositions. --- women artists.