Abstract
Intentional damage to art is an act of vandalism. She Vandals scopes the motivations for women vandalising art (political, social, passion) and how they have carried out these acts of vandalism (by kissing, slashing, ‘restoring’, and smashing). Covering more than a century of vandalism, women have chosen a variety of methods and motivations to ensure they have sought attention from the intentional vandalism inflicted on some of the world’s most famous artworks. This chapter also considers how vandalism is presented, or not, in an artwork’s history.
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Jackson, P. (2020). She Vandals. In: Females in the Frame. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44692-5_4
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