Art Labor Sex Politics

Author : Siona Wilson
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781452943022

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Art Labor, Sex Politics by Siona Wilson Pdf

Contrary to critics who have called it the “undecade,” the 1970s were a time of risky, innovative art—and nowhere more so than in Britain, where the forces of feminism and labor politics merged in a radical new aesthetic. In Art Labor, Sex Politics Siona Wilson investigates the charged relationship of sex and labor politics as it played out in the making of feminist art in 1970s Britain. Her sustained exploration of works of experimental film, installation, performance, and photography maps the intersection of feminist and leftist projects in the artistic practices of this heady period. Collective practice, grassroots activism, and iconoclastic challenges to society’s sexual norms are all fundamental elements of this theoretically informed history. The book provides fresh assessments of key feminist figures and introduces readers to less widely known artists such as Jo Spence and controversial groups like COUM Transmissions. Wilson’s interpretations of two of the best-known (and infamous) exhibitions of feminist art—Mary Kelly’s Post-Partum Document and COUM Transmissions’ Prostitution—supply a historical context that reveals these works anew. Together these analyses demonstrate that feminist attention to sexual difference, sex, and psychic formation reconfigures received categories of labor and politics. How—and how much—do sexual politics transform our approach to aesthetic debates? What effect do the tropes of sexual difference and labor have on the very conception of the political within cultural practice? These are the questions that animate Art Labor, Sex Politics as it illuminates an intense and influential decade of intellectual and artistic experimentation.

Author : Thomas B. Hess,Elizabeth C. Baker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Women artists
ISBN : OCLC:1073885320

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Art and Sexual Politics by Thomas B. Hess,Elizabeth C. Baker Pdf

Author : Thomas B. Hess,Elizabeth C. Baker
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Feminism and art
ISBN : UCAL:B4259624

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Art and Sexual Politics by Thomas B. Hess,Elizabeth C. Baker Pdf

Author : Victoria Horne,Lara Perry
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786722355

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Feminism and Art History Now by Victoria Horne,Lara Perry Pdf

To what extent have developments in global politics, artworld institutions, and local cultures reshaped the critical directions of feminist art historians? The significant new research gathered here engages with the rich inheritance of feminist historiography since around 1970, and considers how to maintain the forcefulness of its critique while addressing contemporary political struggles. Taking on subjects that reflect the museological, global and materialist trajectories of twenty-first-century art historical scholarship, the chapters address the themes of Invisibility, Temporality, Spatiality and Storytelling. They present new research on a diversity of topics that span political movements in Italy, urban gentrification in New York, community art projects in Scotland and Canada's contemporary indigenous culture. Individual chapter analyses focus on the art of Lee Krasner, The Emily Davison Lodge, Zoe Leonard, Martha Rosler, Carla Lonzi and Womanhouse. Together with a synthesising introductory essay, these studies provide readers with a view of feminist art histories of the past, present and future.

Author : Sharon Irish
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781350197602

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Concerning Stephen Willats and the Social Function of Art by Sharon Irish Pdf

This book on Stephen Willats pulls together key strands of his practice and threads them through histories of British cybernetics, experimental art, and urban design. For Willats, a cluster of concepts about control and feedback within living and machine systems (cybernetics) offered a new means to make art relevant. For decades, Willats has built relationships through art with people in tower blocks, underground clubs, middle-class enclaves, and warehouses on the Isle of Dogs, to investigate their current conditions and future possibilities. Sharon Irish's study demonstrates the power of Willats's multi-media art to catalyze communication among participants and to upend ideas about “audience” and “art.” Here, Irish argues that it is artists like Willats who are now the instigators of social transformation.

Author : Beverley Skeggs,Sara R. Farris,Alberto Toscano,Svenja Bromberg
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1684 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781526455727

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The SAGE Handbook of Marxism by Beverley Skeggs,Sara R. Farris,Alberto Toscano,Svenja Bromberg Pdf

The past decade has witnessed a resurgence of interest in Marxism both within and without the academy. Marxian frameworks, concepts and categories continue to be narratively relevant to the features and events of contemporary capitalism. Most crucially, an attention to shifting cultural conditions has lead contemporary researchers to re-confront some classical and essential Marxist concepts, as well as elaborating new critical frameworks for the analysis of capitalism today. The SAGE Handbook of Marxism showcases this cutting-edge of today’s Marxism. It advances the debate with essays that rigorously map and renew the concepts that have provided the groundwork and main currents for Marxist theory, and showcases interventions that set the agenda for Marxist research in the 21st century. A rigorous and challenging collection of scholarship, this book contains a stunning range of contributions from contemporary academics, writers and theorists from around the world and across disciplines, invaluable to scholars and graduate students alike. Part 1: Reworking the critique of political economy Part 2: Forms of domination, subjects of struggle Part 3: Political perspectives Part 4: Philosophical dimensions Part 5: Land and existence Part 6: Domains Part 7: Inquiries and debates

Author : Bertie Ferdman,Jovana Stokic
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781350057586

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The Methuen Drama Companion to Performance Art by Bertie Ferdman,Jovana Stokic Pdf

The Methuen Drama Companion to Performance Art offers a comprehensive guide to the major issues and interdisciplinary debates concerning performance in art contexts that have developed over the last decade. It understands performance art as an institutional, cultural, and economic phenomenon rather than as a label or object. Following the ever-increasing institutionalization and mainstreaming of performance, the book's chapters identify a marked change in the economies and labor practices surrounding performance art, and explore how this development is reflective of capitalist approaches to art and event production. Embracing what we perceive to be the 'oxymoronic status' of performance art-where it is simultaneously precarious and highly profitable-the essays in this book map the myriad gestures and radical possibilities of this extreme contradiction. This Companion adopts an interdisciplinary perspective to present performance art's legacies and its current practices. It brings together specially commissioned essays from leading innovative scholars from a wide range of approaches including art history, visual and performance studies, dance and theatre scholarship in order to provide a comprehensive and multifocal overview of the emerging research trends and methodologies devoted to performance art.

Author : Maria Chatzichristodoulou
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474257725

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Live Art in the UK by Maria Chatzichristodoulou Pdf

Since entering the performance lexicon in the 1970s, the term Live Art has been used to describe a diverse but interrelated array of performance practices and approaches. This volume offers a contextual and critical introduction to the scene of contemporary Live Art in Britain. Focusing on key artists whose prolific body of work has been vital to the development of contemporary practice, this collection studies the landscape of Live Art in the UK today and illuminates its origins, as well as particular concerns and aesthetics. The introduction to the volume situates Live Art in relation to other areas of artistic practice and explores the form as a British phenomenon. It considers questions of cultural specificity, financial and institutional support, and social engagement, by tracing the work and impact of key organizations on the UK scene: the Live Art Development Agency, SPILL Festival of Performance and Compass Live Art. Across three sections, leading scholars offer case studies exploring the practice of key artists Tim Etchells, Marisa Carnesky, Marcia Farquhar, Franko B, Martin O'Brien, Oreet Ashery, David Hoyle, Jordan McKenzie, and Cosey Fanni Tutti.

Author : Sybil Lipschultz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136070747

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Locating the Role of Labor Politics within Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century by Sybil Lipschultz Pdf

Equal rights for women in the workplace is a critical aspect of the twentieth century civil rights movement, as well as an issue of academic and public interest. Bringing together legal rulings and commentary, this three-volume collection documents the development of legal protections for women in the workplace. The comprehensive coverage encompasses the major legal and constitutional issues, including the legal arguments that lead to the reduction of working hours for women and the argumentation that framed the debates over minimum wage legislation. The set also presents more contemporary issues of gender equality versus gender difference, in matters such as maternity leave and health hazards in the workplace for pregnant women. As the interest in the intersection of law and women's studies surges, this important new collection will become an essential guide to students and scholars, as well as lay readers. This volume is available on its own or as part of the three-volume set, Women, the Law, and the Workplace. For a complete list of the volume titles in this set, see the listing for Women, the Law, and the Workplace [0-415-94280-2].

Author : Gabrielle Jennings
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520958135

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Abstract Video by Gabrielle Jennings Pdf

Offering historical and theoretical positions from a variety of art historians, artists, curators, and writers, this groundbreaking collection is the first substantive sourcebook on abstraction in moving-image media. With a particular focus on art since 2000, Abstract Video addresses a longer history of experimentation in video, net art, installation, new media, expanded cinema, visual music, and experimental film. Editor Gabrielle Jennings—a video artist herself—reveals as never before how works of abstract video are not merely, as the renowned curator Kirk Varnedoe once put it, "pictures of nothing," but rather amorphous, ungovernable spaces that encourage contemplation and innovation. In explorations of the work of celebrated artists such as Jeremy Blake, Mona Hatoum, Pierre Huyghe, Ryoji Ikeda, Takeshi Murata, Diana Thater, and Jennifer West, alongside emerging artists, this volume presents fresh and vigorous perspectives on a burgeoning and ever-changing arena of contemporary art.

Author : UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center
Publisher : Wight Art Gallery
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : China painting
ISBN : 0943739209

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Sexual Politics by UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Pdf

Through its examination of the reception of The Dinner Party, both in the United States and abroad, Sexual Politics also traces the development of feminist art theory.

Author : Richard Meyer,Rachel Middleman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Feminism in art
ISBN : 9798218022020

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Anita Steckel by Richard Meyer,Rachel Middleman Pdf

Author : Kate Millett
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231541725

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Sexual Politics by Kate Millett Pdf

A sensation upon its publication in 1970, Sexual Politics documents the subjugation of women in great literature and art. Kate Millett's analysis targets four revered authors—D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, and Jean Genet—and builds a damning profile of literature's patriarchal myths and their extension into psychology, philosophy, and politics. Her eloquence and popular examples taught a generation to recognize inequities masquerading as nature and proved the value of feminist critique in all facets of life. This new edition features the scholar Catharine A. MacKinnon and the New Yorker correspondent Rebecca Mead on the importance of Millett's work to challenging the complacency that sidelines feminism.

Author : Katja Praznik
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781487538194

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Art Work by Katja Praznik Pdf

In Art Work, Katja Praznik counters the Western understanding of art – as a passion for self-expression and an activity done out of love, without any concern for its financial aspects – and instead builds a case for understanding art as a form of invisible labour. Focusing on the experiences of art workers and the history of labour regulation in the arts in socialist Yugoslavia, Praznik helps elucidate the contradiction at the heart of artistic production and the origins of the mystification of art as labour. This profoundly interdisciplinary book highlights the Yugoslav socialist model of culture as the blueprint for uncovering the interconnected aesthetic and economic mechanisms at work in the exploitation of artistic labour. It also shows the historical trajectory of how policies toward art and artistic labour changed by the end of the 1980s. Calling for a fundamental rethinking of the assumptions behind Western art and exploitative labour practices across the world, Art Work will be of interest to scholars in East European studies, art theory, and cultural policy, as well as to practicing artists.

Author : Linda Gertner Zatlin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Art
ISBN : 019817506X

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Aubrey Beardsley and Victorian Sexual Politics by Linda Gertner Zatlin Pdf

In the first serious examination of Aubrey Beardsley's drawings, poetry, and unfinished erotic novel, this book looks beyond dismissals of Beardsley's work, and offers a stimulating reconsideration of his artistic perspective. By examining Beardsley's work within the social, artistic, and literary context of the 1890's, Zatlin demonstrates that behind the choice of his subject matter there was more than simply a desire for sexual exploration: there was also a serious protest against hypocrisy and against the sexist social conventions that fostered that hypocrisy. She explores the various types of women revealed in his art, and argues convincingly that gender relations were Beardsley's overwhelming concern, and that his main achievement emerged as an erotic art which challenged public sexual morality.