Liberation And Equality

Liberation and EqualityStudent’s NameInstitutional AffiliationLiberation and EqualityThroughout history, art has been created for different reasons such as recording significant events, for political or religious causes, and so on. Most of the time, works of art were created and used as propaganda (Combs, 2011). The audiences decide what makes art great and those who are recognized as great artists are the ones able to connect with the target audience. Three illustrations of the influence of the struggle for liberation and equality on contemporary art are Chicago “The Dinner Party,” Alvin Ailey Dance Theater “Revelations,” and Gillo Pontecorvo “Battle of Algiers.” Judy Chicago’s “The Dinner Party” is a significant icon of the ‘70s feminist art and has the names of about 999 women, individually being honored, inscribed in gold on the white tile floor below the triangular table (Brooklyn Museum, 2020). In 1954, the Supreme Court had ruled ‘separate but equal’ unconstitutional and six years later, 29-year-old Alvin Ailey created an ode to the resilience of the human spirit, naming it ‘Revelations’ (The Kennedy Center, 2018). It is a dance that