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Since Stonewall,
Lesbian Artists in America working in a variety of media have become
increasingly diverse and visible. The trend continues today despite a
conservative backlash that began in the late 1990s. |
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Tee Corinne
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JEB (Joan
Elizabeth Biren, b. 1944) created broadly inclusive photographs in the
1970s and 1980s that defined and set the standard for lesbian feminist
image making in the United States. |
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Judy Chicago
(b. 1939) has contributed to gay and lesbian culture through her
feminist critique of heterosexuality and patriarchy. |
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Janet Cooling
(b. 1951) is an audaciously pioneering artist who first won recognition
for her erotic art and has become recognized as a significant
contemporary American painter. |
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Tee Corinne (b.
1943), the shy superstar of lesbian erotica, is a gifted and versatile
artist especially known for her frank and sensuous depictions of
lesbian sex. |
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Laurie Toby Edison
(b. 1942) turned to photography as a medium that could combine art and
social activism. She is best known for three collections of photographs
featuring, respectively, fat nude women, nude men, and women in Japan. |
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Erotic Art
by Lesbians for Lesbians is a relatively recent phenomenon.
Considering the obstacles facing women who want to produce lesbian
erotic art, it is remarkable that so much has been produced in so brief
a time. |
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Della Grace
(b. 1957) is one of the instigators of polymorphous perverse queer
culture. Her work confronts questions of the performance of gender,
especially the performance of masculinity by lesbians. |
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Harmony Hammond
(b. 1944) is a
significant artist whose lesbian feminism is integrated into her
painting and sculpture, teaching, writing, and curatorial work. |
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Holly Hughes
(b. 1955) is a lesbian feminist
performance artist who has a flair for telling the outrageous stories
of everyday lesbian life. She gained national
notoriety in the early 1990s as one of the "NEA Four," a group of
artists who lost National Endowment for the Arts grants because of
pressure by political conservatives. |
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Kate Millett
(b. 1934) is a bisexual feminist writer, social critic, and artist
best known for her book Sexual Politics (1970). |
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Performance Art
has been embraced by queer artists as a means of challenging the very
idea of traditional art in culture. |
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Post-Stonewall
Lesbian Photographers have created an enduring archive that
documents lesbian lives, searches for a lesbian sensibility, and
explores various issues of particular import to the lesbian community. |
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Related Special
Features |
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Nineteenth Century American Art: Lesbian
Photography: Lesbian, Pre-Stonewall |
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Photo
Credits:
Portrait of Tee Corinne by Beverly Brown, courtesy Tee Corinne. |
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