WOMEN and QUILTSMore Than Just Decorative

by Jeanne Airdfor Professor M. Deyasi

Art 508Department of Art and Design

University of Idaho2009

There is a hierarchy inthe arts: decorative artat the bottom, and thehuman form at the top.Because we are men.

—Le Corbusier andAmedee Ozenfant,

1918

Fiber art in general and art quilts specifically,are considered inferior to painting and

sculpture because of an aesthetic hierarchythat has deemed certain forms of art, thoseusually created by men, as dominant over

those art forms created primarily by women.

Portrait of an Old Man with a Boy byMarietta Robusti Tintoretto, c. 1585

Gunta Stolzl & Anni Albers

Old Mistresses, Women, Art and Ideology

The First Wave of Feminism

Second Wave of Feminism

Project Womanhouse

Miriam Schapiro’s Femmages

Third Wave of Feminism

Fiber Art of the 1970’s

Quilts as Art