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Vivien Fryd’s Article Appears in The Conversation, San Francisco Chronicle

Posted by on Thursday, March 21, 2019 in HART, News, Vanderbilt University, VRC.

The Conversation, “A half-century before the hashtag, artists were on the front lines of #MeToo” by Vivien Green Fryd, professor of history of art:

The #MeToo movement has had a sweeping effect on politics, organized religion, educational institutions, Hollywood, sports and the military.

The cultural prominence of rape and sexual assault might be new. Efforts to bring attention to the issue, however, are not.

CaptureBeginning in the 1970s, a group of female artists in the U.S. started confronting rape, incest and sexual assault through performances, videos, quilts and other nontraditional media.

By tackling a taboo subject, they were at the forefront of raising public awareness of these issues. In my new book Against Our Will: Sexual Trauma in American Art Since 1970, I detail how their relentless efforts to end the silence surrounding sexual violence against women reverberates in the #MeToo movement today.

Continue reading and viewing images in The Conversation….

*This article originally appeared in The Conversation on March 19, 2019, and was reprinted in the San Francisco Chronicle (March 19) and The Huffington Post (March 26).

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