‘The image of the woman as we know it is an image created by men & fashioned to suit their needs’ #KateMillett
Katherine Murray Millett (Sep 14, 1934 – Sep 6, 2017) was an American feminist writer, educator, artist, and activist.
Bachelor’s Apartment, 1967
Mixed media, 48 x 18 x 48 inches
(121.9 x 45.7 x 121.9 cm)
Carved wood, ticking fabric, paint, wooden legs,bedstead, milner’s forms
60×48×60in (152.4 ×121.9 ×152.4cm)
(from “Fantasy Furniture” series)
wood, ticking fabric, acrylic paint
LIFE AFTER THE REVOLUTION: KATE MILLETT’S ART COLONY FOR WOMEN: click on link to visit virtual exhibition: https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=WwoBSd3XPKA
In 1970, with the advance from her book Sexual Politics, writer and visual artist Kate Millett (1934–2017) bought a run-down farmhouse on the outskirts of Poughkeepsie, NY. Originally intended as a private retreat, by 1978, in collaboration with her partner Sophie Keir, a vision to create a women’s art colony was already taking shape. Friends, artists, and volunteers from the Women’s Movement journeyed to the Farm to renovate the dilapidated barns and create living quarters as well as art studios. via
The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art | SUNY New Paltz http://www.newpaltz.edu/museum/exhibitions/kate-millett-life-after-the-revolution/
Katherine Murray Millett (Sep 14, 1934 – Sep 6, 2017) was an American feminist writer, educator, artist, and activist.
She attended Oxford University and was the first American woman to be awarded a degree with first-class honors after studying at St Hilda’s College, Oxford.
She has been described as “a seminal influence on second-wave feminism”, and is best known for her book Sexual Politics (1970), which was based on her doctoral dissertation at Columbia University.
Journalist Liza Featherstone attributes the attainment of previously unimaginable “legal abortion, greater professional equality between the sexes, and a sexual freedom” in part to Millett’s efforts. via Wikipedia
read “Kate Millett: Artist, first and foremost” https://sheaferking.com/blogs/searching-for-beauty/kate-millett-artist-first-and-foremost
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