Yoko Ono's "Cut Piece"

Video footage shot during Yoko Ono's Cut Piece performance:

Slide Images for November 4

 Yayoi Kusama

Infinity Nets Yellow

1960

 Yayoi Kusama

Infinity Mirror Room

1965

 Yayoi Kusama

Accumulation No. 2 

1962

 Yoko Ono

Cut Piece

1964

Miriam Schapiro

Anatomy of a Kimono

1976

 Lynda Benglis

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1974

 Sylvia Sleigh

Paul Rosano Reclining 

1973

 Sylvia Sleigh

Turkish Bath

1973

 Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Turkish Bath

1862

 Ida Applebroog

Sure I’m Sure

1978

 Ida Applebroog

Vagina Drawing: Group A, #9

c. 1969 (Not shown until 2009

 Ida Applebroog

Vagina Drawing: Group C #8

c. 1969 (Not shown until 2009)

 Carolee Schneemann

Interior Scroll

1975

Judy Chicago

The Dinner Party

1979

Terms of the Day for November 4

• The Feminist Art Movement – a term which refers to the efforts and accomplishments of feminists internationally to make art that reflects women's lives and experiences, as well as to change the foundation for the production and reception of contemporary art. It also sought to bring more visibility to women within art history and art practice.
• Installation Art – an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space, generally an interior space.
• Performance Art – a term that refers to a performance presented to an audience, traditionally using interdisciplinary arts. Performance may be either scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated; spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation. The actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time constitute the work. 
• The Female Gaze – a deliberate appropriation of the “Male Gaze” that takes the common tropes of how women have been historically portrayed in art and applies them to depictions of men.