ART REVIEW: “TOPPLING CULTURAL ICONS: POLISH WOMEN’S ART EXAMINES GENDER AND DEMOCRACY”

Abstract

Poland’s heady transition to a democracy and free market economy has brought dramatic changes in societal values and attitudes, and some of the deepest transformations have been in women’s identity and gender relations, which this feminist art show explores. The exhibit draws its life force – and its title as well – from our global age of permeable borders, with its import-export of material and intellectual goods. This border became permeable in Poland only very recently, bringing in what some Poles call “good Western imports,” such as monetary profits, and “bad Western imports” such as feminism.

Citation

Penn, S. (2004), "ART REVIEW: “TOPPLING CULTURAL ICONS: POLISH WOMEN’S ART EXAMINES GENDER AND DEMOCRACY”", Lehman, C.R., Tinker, T., Merino, B. and Neimark, M. (Ed.) Re-Inventing Realities (Advances in Public Interest Accounting, Vol. 10), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 217-224. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1041-7060(04)10016-3