The Feminist Art Movement became a prominent force in the art world during the 1970s. What exactly makes art “feminist” is continually examined and reinterpreted. Some of that analysis is done by feminist art journals.
These feminist art journals may have been desperately needed during the time of the Women’s Liberation Movement, considering that History of Art by Janson, a standard university art history text, incorporated women artists for the first time in 1986.
Some notable feminist art journals:
1. Women and Art
Women and Art began in 1971, but soon ended when three of its prominent feminist editors left to create the Feminist Art Journal in 1972.
2. Feminist Art Journal
The Feminist Art Journal was founded in 1972 by Cindy Nemser and other feminist artists and theorists who left the Women and Art journal. It lasted a few years, through 1977.
3. Womanspace
The Womanspace journal was a briefly lived publication of the Womanspace gallery in Los Angeles. There were only a few issues, beginning in early 1973.
4. Chrysalis: A Magazine of Women's Culture
Chrysalis, whose founders included Kirsten Grimstad and Susan Rennie, was organized out of the Los Angeles Woman's Building from 1977 to 1981. It set out to cover all of women's culture, not just visual art.
5. Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics
Heresies was a feminist journal published from 1977 to 1992 by the Heresies Collective in New York.