Abstract
Abstract The work of the women in this exhibition can be characterized as being ‘on the edge’ because much of it was avant-garde in nature. These arrists lived and worked in a world of extreme political and social volatility; a world of almost intoxicating uncertainty and change, which produced such phenomena as the New Woman — someone who cast her own vote, brought home her own pay-packet, or practised birth control. This was a new world that included women at work behind typewriters and on the assembly line, women passing time alone or in groups in the care and the music hall. This was an era epitomized by the flapper-part child, part vamp, dressed in a ready-made shortened skirt and wearing boyishly bobbed hair.
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