“Mother Superior”: Maternity and Creativity in the Work of Yoko Ono

Curating ‘Creative Dystocia’: Exhibiting the Relationship between Artists, Identity and Motherhood in Twenty-first Century Australian Art

“…Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun's eighteenth-century self-portraits with her daughter or Berthe Morisot's Impressionist studies of motherhood, such as The Cradle (1872) provide an affectionate view of mothering from a feminine perspective. Much work that emerges during second wave feminist practice however, moves from motherhood as a subject of art to its matter (Lindau, 2016). In her study of maternality in Yoko Ono's practice, Elizabeth Ann Lindau discusses the artistic production of the late 1960s and 1970s as a galvanising moment in the relationship between art and motherhood.…”