Author Description

This publication showcases three contemporary American women artists who focus on issues of gender power and the body in an image-and-word saturated society. Producing broadly activist art', these women use readymade cultural artefacts from advertising, television, movies and magazines (also touching on graffiti and rap) while maintaining a critical distance from, and subverting, that material. Their films, slideshow projections, installations, photographs, posters and framed text and photography attack consumerism, militarism, sexism and the power of the advertising medium itself.