The Feminist Avant Garde

Author : Gabriele Schor
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2023-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3791359711

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Feminist Avant-Garde by Gabriele Schor Pdf

Now available again in an expanded edition and featuring a variety of work from artists both well-known and under the radar, this volume explores the pioneering achievements of the Feminist Avant-Garde. For art history, the 1970s represent the beginning of women subverting culturally and socially established constructions and traditional norms. Second-wave feminism, with its slogan "The personal is political", challenged the one-dimensional roles assigned to women--mother, housewife, and spouse. During this period, women artists radically questioned their duties and created a plurality of self-determined representations of themselves. Rejecting traditional male-dominated techniques, such as painting, these artists made use of new media, such as photography, film, video, and performance. The outcome was artwork which was radical, poetic, ironic, bitter, cynical, and heartfelt. This book features more than seventy international female artists, including works by Martha Rosler, Mary Beth Edelson, Ana Mendieta, Nil Yalter, and Ulrike Rosenbach. Editor Gabriele Schor used the term Feminist Avant-Garde in order to emphasize the role that these artists played in the last four decades. This new edition has been enriched with twenty-five new artists--Emma Amos, Dara Birnbaum, Rose English, Natalia LL, among others--as well as up-to-date research on feminist exhibitions, catalogues, and periodicals. Each artist is introduced by an essay and the book also includes fascinating texts by leading scholars.

Author : Elisabeth A. Frost
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781587294341

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The Feminist Avant-Garde in American Poetry by Elisabeth A. Frost Pdf

The Feminist Avant-Garde in American Poetry offers a historical and theoretical account of avant-garde women poets in America from the 1910s through the 1990s and asserts an alternative tradition to the predominantly male-dominated avant-garde movements. Elisabeth Frost argues that this alternative lineage distinguishes itself by its feminism and its ambivalence toward existing avant-garde projects; she also thoroughly explores feminist avant-garde poets' debts and contributions to their male counterparts.

Author : Lucy Delap
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521876513

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The Feminist Avant-Garde by Lucy Delap Pdf

In the first major study of twentieth-century feminism as an Anglo-American phenomenon, Lucy Delap offers a unique perspective on the politics of gender. By exploring the intellectual history and cultural politics of Anglo-American feminism Delap challenges the reader to re-think the nature of both the 'avant-garde' and 'feminism'.

Author : Lucy Delap
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521124905

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The Feminist Avant-Garde by Lucy Delap Pdf

In the early twentieth century the term 'feminist' was used by self-consciously 'modern' men and women, to distinguish their ideas from those of 'the women's movement', and even to adopt anti-suffrage positions. In the first major study of twentieth-century feminism as an Anglo-American phenomenon, Lucy Delap offers a unique perspective on the politics of gender during this period. Delap explores the intellectual history and cultural politics of Anglo-American feminism in a way that challenges the reader to rethink the nature of both the 'avant-garde' and 'feminism'. Focusing on the development of transnational feminisms within Edwardian and interwar print culture, feminist political argument is placed at the centre of an account of modernism, highlighting some unexpected and often uncomfortable components, including the feminist fascination with individualism and egoism; ambivalence over World War One; utopian thinking and captivation by the idea of 'the simple life'; anti-Semitism; sexual radicalism; and ideas about 'the superwoman'.

Author : James M. Harding
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780472117185

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Cutting Performances by James M. Harding Pdf

Sheds light on the critical role that women artists have played in the evolution of the American avant-garde

Author : Susan Rubin Suleiman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Art
ISBN : 0674853849

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Subversive Intent by Susan Rubin Suleiman Pdf

With this important new book, Susan Suleiman lays the foundation for a postmodern feminist poetics and theory of the avant-garde. She shows how the figure of Woman, as fantasy, myth, or metaphor, has functioned in the work of male avant-garde writers and artists of this century. Focusing also on women's avant-garde artistic practices, Suleiman demonstrates how to read difficult modern works in a way that reveals their political as well as their aesthetic impact. Suleiman directly addresses the subversive intent of avant-garde movements from Surrealism to postmodernism. Through her detailed readings of provocatively transgressive works by André Breton, Georges Bataille, Roland Barthes, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, and others, Suleiman demonstrates the central role of the female body in the male erotic imagination and illuminates the extent to which masculinist assumptions have influenced modern art and theory. By examining the work of contemporary women avantgarde artists and theorists--including Hélène Cixous, Marguerite Duras, Monique Wittig, Luce Irigaray, Angela Carter, Jeanette Winterson, Leonora Carrington, Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, and Cindy Sherman--Suleiman shows the political power of feminist critiques of patriarchal ideology, and especially emphasizes the power of feminist humor and parody. Central to Suleiman's revisionary theory of the avant-garde is the figure of the playful, laughing mother. True to the radically irreverent spirit of the historical avant-gardes and their postmodernist successors, Suleiman's laughing mother embodies the need for a link between symbolic innovation and political and social change.

Author : Patricia Mellencamp
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1990-09-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 025311599X

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Indiscretions by Patricia Mellencamp Pdf

Indiscretions follows the path of U.S. avant-garde film and video from the underground of the 1960s to the academy of the 1980s. Patricia Mellencamp traces and charts the intersections of Lacanian psychoanalysis and the desiring male subject, Roland Barthes and texts of pleasure, Michel Foucault and the disciplinary society, the grotesque body and Mikhail Bakhtin, the rhizomatic alogic of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, and the female subject of feminist film theory. She creates a dialogue among theory and popular culture and politics through inventive readings of the films of Owen Land, Hollis Frampton, Ken Jacobs, Bruce Conner, Robert Nelson, Michael Snow, Yvonne Rainer, and Sally Potter, and videotapes by Ant Farm, TVTV, Michael Smith, William Wegman, and Cecelia Condit.

Author : Sammlung Verbund,Betsy Berne,Johannes Binotto,Abigail Solomon-Godeau,Beate Söntgen
Publisher : Distributed Art Publishers (DAP)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Photograph collections
ISBN : 1938922417

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Francesca Woodman by Sammlung Verbund,Betsy Berne,Johannes Binotto,Abigail Solomon-Godeau,Beate Söntgen Pdf

"This monograph on Francesca Woodman (1958--1981), the most comprehensive to date, charts new approaches to her oeuvre. Whereas the evanescence of the female figure in the artist's photographs has often been read as an aesthetic anticipation of her suicide, the essays by publishers Gabriele Schor and Elisabeth Bronfen as well as those from Johannes Binotto, Abigail Solomon-Godeau and Beate Söntgen illustrate Woodman's passionate self-staging in the tradition of the tableau vivant. Her poetic and metaphorical use of props (mirrors, gloves, rugs etc.) and her staging in a room, where the laws of geometry seem to no longer apply, are examined in the essays. The 80 photographs in the SAMMLUNG VERBUND collection can be seen for the first time in their original size."--Publisher infomation.

Author : K. Hanna
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137548703

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Feminism and Avant-Garde Aesthetics in the Levantine Novel by K. Hanna Pdf

Writing in response to war and national crisis, al-Samm?n, Khal?feh, Barak?t, and others introduced into the Arabic literary canon aesthetic forms capable of carrying Levantine women's experiences. By assessing their feminism in such a way, this book aims to revive a critical emphasis on aesthetics in Arab women's writing.

Author : Gabriele Schor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3791365975

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Feministische Avantgarde by Gabriele Schor Pdf

Author : Lauren Rabinovitz
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Experimental films
ISBN : 0252071247

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Points of Resistance by Lauren Rabinovitz Pdf

In detailing the relationship of three women filmmakers' lives and films to the changing institutions of the post-World War II era, Lauren Rabinovitz has created the first feminist social history of the North American avant-garde cinema. At a time when there were few women directors in commercial films, the postwar avant-garde movement offered an opportunity. Rabinovitz argues that avant-garde cinema, open to women because of its marginal status in the art world, included women as filmmakers, organizers, and critics. Focusing on Maya Deren, Shirley Clarke, and Joyce Wieland, Rabinovitz illustrates how women used bold physical images to enhance their work and how each provided entrée to her subversive art while remaining culturally acceptable. She combines archival materials with her own interviews to show how the women's labor and films, even their identities as women filmmakers, were produced, disseminated, and understood. With a new preface and an updated bibliography, Points of Resistance simultaneously demonstrates the avant-garde's importance as an organizational network for women filmmakers and the processes by which women remained marginal figures within that network.

Author : Alyce Mahon
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691141619

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The Marquis de Sade and the Avant-Garde by Alyce Mahon Pdf

"This is the first book to examine the cultural history of Marquis de Sade's (1740-1814) philosophical ideas and their lasting influence on political and artistic debates. An icon of free expression, Sade lived through France's Reign of Terror, and his writings offer both a pitiless mirror on humanity and a series of subversive metaphors that allow for the exploration of political, sexual, and psychological terror. Generations of avant-garde writers and artists have responded to Sade's philosophy as a means of liberation and as a radical engagement with social politics and sexual desire, writing fiction modelled on Sade's novels, illustrating luxury editions of his works, and translating his ideas into film, photography, and painting. In The Sadean Imagination, Alyce Mahon examines how Sade used images and texts as forms that could explore and dramatize the concept of terror on political, physical, and psychic levels, and how avant-garde artists have continued to engage in a complex dialogue with his works. Studying Sade's influence on art from the French Revolution through the twentieth century, Mahon examines works ranging from Anne Desclos's The Story of O, to images, texts, and films by Man Ray, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Guillaume Apollinaire, Jean-Jacques Lebel, and Peter Brook. She also discusses writings and responses to Sade by feminist theorists including Angela Carter and Judith Butler. Throughout, she shows how Sade's work challenged traditional artistic expectations and pushed the boundaries of the body and the body politic, inspiring future artists, writers, and filmmakers to imagine and portray the unthinkable"--

Author : Alexandra Schwartz
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art, Modern
ISBN : 9780870706608

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Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art by Alexandra Schwartz Pdf

This text examines the collection of feminist art in the Museum of Modern Art. It features essays presenting a range of generational and cultural perspectives.

Author : Constance Penley
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780816617722

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The Future of an Illusion by Constance Penley Pdf

The Future of an Illusion was first published in 1989. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The Future of an Illusion documents the pivotal role Constance Penley has played in the development of feminist film theory. Penley analyzes the primary movements that have shaped the field: the conjunction of feminism, film theory, and psychoanalysis, and the inherent debates surrounding the politics of women and representation. These debates center on the position of women in the classical Hollywood narrative, the construction of the spectator's desire in pornography and eroticism, and the implicitly male bias in psychoanalytically oriented film theory. Essential to anyone studying the sexual policies of representation, The Future of an Illusion ranges from avant-garde films to video, popular cinema, television, literature, and critical and cultural theory. Constance Penley is associate professor of English and film studies at the University of Rochester. A co-editor of the journal Camera Obscura,she is the editor of Feminism and Film Theory.

Author : Colin Cunningham,Emma Barker
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300077602

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Gender and Art by Colin Cunningham,Emma Barker Pdf

Encompassing European art, architecture and design from the sixteenth century to the present day, it explores both the work of women artists and the ways that visual representation by male and female artists may be gendered."--BOOK JACKET.