What has happened throughout history is that for some reason women have been associated with sentimental things…and their art or whatever it is they do has been trivialized…[but] people forget that the origin of the word sentiment also gives rise to sentience and sensibility. And those are all words about feeling. So if you take the sentimentality away from women, you’re taking their feeling away, and you can’t do that to them, to us. You can’t take our feelings away.
Artist Miriam Schapiro, who died this past Saturday. Her oral history interview in our collections illuminates the role she played in establishing feminist art as a movement.
Oral history interview with Miriam Schapiro, 1989 September 10, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
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