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Fanny: Fanny Hill

Pitchfork·Marissa Lorusso·29 days ago
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For as long as there have been men, women have envisioned a space without them. In the 15th century, the French writer Christine de Pizan imagined a “City of Ladies,” a woman-only utopia where liberated women of history hung out. Skip forward several centuries to 1915 and find yourself in “Herland,” another war-free, woman-only creation, this time care of American author Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Just about 60 years later, artists Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro—alongside a group of their students—brought one vision of feminist utopia into the real world. Though it was only open for one month in 1972, Womanhouse is widely considered one of the most influential works of contemporary art: an immersive exhibition in which the artists renovated a dilapidated house in Los Angeles, lived in it, made visual art, and staged groundbreaking performance pieces. But just a few miles away from Chicago and Schapiro’s avant-garde wonderland, in West Hollywood, lay another IRL feminist utopia called Fanny Hill.…

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