Lunar Landing: Cosmic Themes and Feminism in the Works of Ester Krumbachová, Olja Ivanjicki, Kiki Kogelnik, and Evelyne Axell
On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The first artificial satellite remained in orbit for only three months, yet its brief trajectory set in motion nearly two decades of technological and ideological rivalry between the USSR and the United States. The 1960s saw this competition intensify, culminating in NASA’s Apollo 11 lunar landing on July 20, 1969. Television broadcasts, illustrated magazines, newspapers, and science fiction films circulated images of rockets, astronauts, and cosmic landscapes, creating a shared visual language that crossed geopolitical boundaries and appeared in both art and experimental costume design
