I recently went the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Almost a whole floor was dedicated to art from the 1960's. The exhibit was organized so that each room was about a single year within that decade. They had some older television sets set up with footage from the Women's Liberation movement, showing famous feminists leading protests in big cities, just as we learned about in history class. I learned about this one woman (I've forgotten her name) who was super daring. She basically went around in public with everything below her navel exposed. In another room, I watched part of a fictional film made about the arms race. One of the last rooms had a really short film that basically showed men sitting in/driving really nice cars. The description of the video explained that the film was actually about homosexuality, but it was done in a very subtle way. I thought that was really interesting, especially since we've learned about how homosexuals had to hide and put up with all the discrimination that was coming at them.
Sounds like a very interesting exhibit! The famous feminist you forgot the name of reminds me of that other feminist we learned about in the documentary who went under cover in a play boy club and stared in a TV show about a single women.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a great exhibit! It really connects to what we've learned about the 1960s from the documentaries.
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