#marilyn webb

[abwwia]

Marilyn Webb, 1973

gelatin silver print

250 x 210mm

unframed

Marilynn Lois Webb ONZM (11 September 1937 – 16 August 2021) was a New Zealand artist, noted for her contributions to Māori art and her work as an educator. She was best known for her work in printmaking and pastels, and her works are held in art collections in New Zealand, the United States, and Norway. She lectured at the Dunedin School of Art, and was made an emeritus principal lecturer in 2004. VIA WIKIPEDIA

[myfairynuffstuff]

Marilyn Webb (b.1937) - Two Bends in the Clutha. 1988. Handcoloured engraving.

[yama-bato]

Marilynn Webb

Cloud Landscape 6 Etching, edition 1/10, 1973, signed Marilyn Webb

[myfairynuffstuff]

Marilyn Webb (b.1937) - Going through Fiordland - Dusky Sound. 2015. Pastel.

[myfairynuffstuff]

Marilyn Webb (b.1937) - Walking in Fiordland, Lake Mavora I. Hand coloured engraving.

[valeria2067]

(Misha's Tweet)

"When Marilyn Webb asked a distinguished male professor to serve on her dissertation committee at the University of Chicago, he said he would do so only if he could go to her apartment and give her baths.

So she asked another prominent professor, this one an expert in moral development. He pinned her against the wall, kissed her forcefully and “began slobbering all over my face,” she recalled, adding, “He told me it was quid pro quo.”

Webb pushed him off, walked out and had a good cry. “The fact that they saw me as just a sexual being and a sexual object was so stunning to me, it just shattered me,” she said. “I didn’t even have the confidence to get angry. I was just so hurt.”

[zwischenstadt]

We have more important things to do than to try to get you to come around. You will come around when you have to, because you need us more than we need you... The message being: Fuck off, left. You can examine your navel by yourself from now on. We're starting our own movement.

-Shulamith Firestone, 1969, "letter to the left" Context: One of Firestone's colleagues and fellow feminist, Marilyn Webb, gave a speech and a new left anti-Nixon rally on the topic of feminism.  She was drowned out by screamed rape threats from the crowd.  It was a major event in driving feminism (understandably) away from the 60s left.