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Facts About Women in the Arts |
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Twenty years
into the women's art movement, women artists are still struggling for
visibility. It is well documented that they lack significant support in
the art world.
According to the 1990 U.S. study, Gender Discrimination in the Artfield:
50.7% of all visual artists are female
Women hold 53.1% of the degrees in art
- Yet -
80% of art faculty are males
Male artists make 68.6% of the total art income
Male artists receive 73% of grants/fellowships
According to
the Guerrilla Girls:
Art museums average
15% women in curated exhibits, minority women .003% 4% of museum acquisitions
are of work by women artists Since antiquity, women
artists have been creating alongside their male counterparts. Many of
these women were highly successful during their
lifetimes, yet have
been omitted from art historical documentation. For instance, before
1986, all editions of H.W. Janson's History of Art, (the standard text
used in introductory college art history classes), included 3,000 male
and no female artists. In the latest version, published in 1991, only
19 women are represented.
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