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    Mary Kelly, "Reviewing Modernist Criticism," Art in Theory: 1900-2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas, Ed. Charles Harrison and Paul Wood (Blackwell, 2007) 1088-1093.
    CONTEXT
    Marry Kelley is the author and she grew in a post-modern society. She elaborates how sexual differences have affected the course of artworks and their exhibitions in this period.
    PURPOSE
    Author’s purpose is to highlight key factors and challenges that feminism based art productions have gone through over the course of past few decades.
    THESIS
    What is the author arguing/asserting? What is the big idea or main point? Answer the question: [author name] argues that… (1 sentence only)
The big idea in this article is to present the two folded aspects of the art societies that have no accepted feministic artworks as a part of their mainstream production.
    SUMMARY
    What are the supporting ideas that support the thesis? What are the key concepts they put forward? (3-4 sentences maximum written in your own words).
The main idea is supported by the historical evidences taken from 1960s and 1970s when women artists suffered on account of their gender. In spite of being champions of their trends, their efforts remained compromised for a long period.
    QUOTE
    “This just says it all” or “I loved this sentence” (include page number for each quote)
In the context of the article, I loved the quote on page three when Mary states that common sense is needed to judge the art but it takes a genius to produce it.
    CONNECTION
    “This reminds me…” How do the ideas in this reading intersect with another reading from this week, this course or beyond?
The discussion in the article reminds me of the gender differences...