W.A.R. [videorecording] : women art revolution / a Hotwire Production in association with Chicken and Egg Pictures, Creative Capital Foundation, Impact Partners ; a film by Lynn Hershman Leeson ; producers, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Kyle Stephan, Alexandra Chowaniec ; writer, director, Lynn Hershman Leeson.
Format:
[videorecording] :
Edition:
Educational ed.
Publisher:
Zeitgeist Films,
Copyright Date:
2010
Description:
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 curriculum guide.
Title on container includes exclamation point at beginning of title and subtitle. Originally produced as a documentary film in 2010. Accompanied by: !Women art revolution : !W.A.R. / written by Lynn Hershman Leeson, Alexandra Chowaniec and Spain ; curriculum guide by Krista Lynes, Claire Daigle and Fiona Summers (96 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.) Public performance rights included. Narrator, Lynn Hershman Leeson.
Summary:
History of the feminist art movement in the late 20th century, including interviews with many of the participants. Curriculum guide: "We invited legendary cartoonist Spain Rodriguez to draw upon some highlights of the incongruous and irrational episodes in the feminist art movement's fragmented history that were included in [the film] !Women art revolution : a secret history, and create a graphic outline of that tumultuous era. [Also] includes some of the text of a 2006 interview with Marcia Tucker, first woman hired into a curatorial position at the Whitney Museum, and a curriculum guide for the film" --Publisher description.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.