Amazons of the Avant Garde.(Trends & Events)
American Theatre, April, 2004
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> San Antonio, Tex.: It's not just the artistry of American theatre women that has been routinely slighted. If you found yourself at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's recent "Amazons of the Avant Garde," an exhibition on the radical art of six early-20th-century Russian women, you no doubt registered the patriarchal sight of an august museum patting itself on the back for recognizing--for the first time!--"the unprecedented number of women artists actively involved in the movement." "Never before in the history of Western art had women played so vital a role ...
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