Abstract
Women artists have long been deprived of their share of recognition in the art world that has predominantly been a domain of men. Invisibility of women from the historical records of the art world has confirmed the systematic subordination of women resulting in a social and professional detriment. The concern over the anomalous and disparaging relation between the art market and women artists has raised pertinent questions on the ubiquitous nature of sexism and racism in the treatment of women artists. There have been collective and individual efforts to shift the landscape and appeal the art critics, art historians, art galleries and auction houses to focus on addressing this diminished representation of women artists. Contemporary modern women artists may have made it to the 100 most influential artists of the world but they have a long way to go to fill the gender gap in the art world.
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Women Art Revolution (2010) is a documentary film written, directed and produced by Lynn Hershman Leeson which featured the content in the form of artwork, interviews and videos depicting the Feminist Art Movement. It was announced as one of the three best documentaries of the year by The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York.
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Guerilla Girls is a group of feminist artists founded in New York in 1985 to expose the long-existing sexism, racism and discrimination in the art world. They have explicitly expressed the issue of gender bias through their artwork, posters, videos, billboards and other mediums to fight the invisibility of women and promote an appropriate representation and participation of women in the art world.
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Patel, S. (2022). Making Visible the Invisible: Women Artists and Herstory. In: Patel, V., Mondal, N. (eds) Gendered Inequalities in Paid and Unpaid Work of Women in India. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9974-0_11
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