She is often identified as a feminist artist, although she does not like the label because it contextualizes her work too narrowly.

In the 1970's many feminist artists saw the classical past as a vehicle for their ideas.

She was the first artist in Croatia to label herself a feminist artist.

By the late 1970's, when she returned to painting, feminist artists had validated such craft activities as a vital form of art-making.

"All of these 70's feminist artists had to break through this territory in a violent way," she said.

Maderna is one of the first generation of feminist visual artists in Austria.

And he sustains it this season with a series of solo shows devoted to feminist artists who first gained noticed in the early 1970's.

Ms. Chicago, 63, did not start as a feminist artist.

She still described herself as a formalist however, unlike other feminist artists who wanted to distance themselves from male-oriented art history.

Being called a feminist artist is something she accepts, even relishes.