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September 25, 2007
Lisa Gabrielle Mark, ed. WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution Exh. cat. Los Angeles and Cambridge, MA: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in association with MIT Press, 2006. 512 pp.; 475 color ills. Cloth $59.95 (9780914357995)

Exhibition schedule: Museum of Contemporary Art, Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, March 4–July 16, 2007; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, September 21–December 16, 2007; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, February–June 2008; and Vancouver Art Gallery, British Columbia, October 4, 2008–January 18, 2009

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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2007.87

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Magdalena Abakanowicz. Abakan Red (1969). Sisal and mixed media. 157 1/2 x 157 1/2 x 137 13/16 in. Courtesy of the National Museum in Wroclaw. Photo courtesy of Magdalena Abakanowicz.

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WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution is an international survey of artworks featuring radical subject matter, experimental processes, and aesthetic activism from the women’s movement. This exhibition is one of the first major retrospectives of women’s artwork from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. It also includes performance documents, interdisciplinary projects, and journals that reflect the many different political responses that gender discrimination provoked in the seventies. Since that decade, we have come to...