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Borian V..
Forming the New Paradigm of Post-Soviet Feminist Art
// Culture and Art. – 2017. – ¹ 6.
– P. 78-87.
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Abstract: The author of the article analyzes the impact of a critical feminist statement in the field of contemporary art on the social position of women in post-Soviet society. It is considering the confrontations that feminist art is faced in discursive and social fields and possible solutions of listed problems. The reasons and events that led the modern feminist discourse to the position in which this phenomenon exists today in Russian society and the dynamics and interference of feminist art with academic and public spheres are described and analyzed in the article. The investigation method can be designated as experimental. In the process of creating a work, there are applied tactics such as observations, simulations, comparisons. We can get an extensive view based on historical and scientific facts, comparing the achievements of the previous studies, in cooperation with the empirical experience. The main conclusion of the research is that for changing the perception of the phenomenon of feminism by the large society feminist artists and activists should popularize the gender theories and the feminist art. The important perspectives of feminist art are civil activism, the spreading of art through graffiti, stickers, social networks, video and zines (Self-publishing). Feminist art is intended not only for professionals in the art and gender studies field but also for the nonprofessional viewer, who wants to understand and sort out the phenomenon of feminist rhetoric. To win a non-professional audience and make art understandable and accessible to the masses, feasibly by attracting the attention of society to socially sensitive topics that rise in works and acts of feminist artists. That kind of art can become a powerful lever of influence on the formation of public consciousness. In addition very important to develop institutions which can receive a systematic education, to develop a verbal and visual language expressing the values of feminist discourse. As a result, more artists and activists will be able to attract attention to the social problems faced by millions of people each day, it will give an opportunity for correctly inspiring others, who afraid of openly expressing their views, it can afford a platform for the utterance of oppressed groups, to allow the subject to quest about correctness of the social norms grafted to him by default.
Keywords: Gender roles, contemporary art, russian feminism, gender studies, activism, gender, feminist art, feminism, critical art, Post-Soviet feminism
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