Feminism and Art History Now: Radical Critiques of Theory and Practice

Author(s): Victoria Horne

History & Theory of Art

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.

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Victoria Horne is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art and teaches courses on contemporary art at the University of Edinburgh. In 2012, she established the Writing Feminist Art Histories research initiative. Lara Perry is the Academic Programme Leader for History of Art and Design at the University of Brighton. She is the author of History's Beauties: Women and the National Portrait Gallery, 1856 - 1900 (2006) and co-editor of Politics in a Glass Case: Feminism, Exhibition Cultures and Curatorial Transgressions (2013).

Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionFeminism and Art History Now: Making and Maintaining the PastVictoria Horne and Lara PerryI. Visibility, Intervention, Refusal1. Making Visible Lee Krasner's Occupation: Feminist Historiography and the Pollock Krasner StudioAndrew Hardman2. Challenging Feminist Art History: Carla Lonzi's Divergent PathGiovanna Zapperi3. This Moment: A Dialogue of Participation, Refusal and History MakingAngela Dimitrakaki and Lara PerryII: Temporality, Ghosts, Returns4. Temporalities of the 'Feminaissance'Francesco Ventrella5. Gestures of Inclusion, Bodily Damage and the Hauntings of Exploitation in Global Feminisms (2007)Kimberley Lamm6. Learning and Playing: Re-Enacting Feminist HistoriesCatherine GrantIII. Spatiality, Occupation, Home7. Los Angeles 1972 / Glasgow 1990: A Report on WomanhouseHannah Hamblin8. From Housework to Housing: Social Reproduction and Feminist Art History Kirsten Lloyd9. The Salon Model: The Conversational ComplexElke KrasnyIV. Communication, Speaking, Storytelling10. "Our Stories Are Our Life Blood": Indigenous Feminist Memory and Storytelling as Strategy for Social ChangeCherry Smiley11. An Unfinished Revolution in Art Historiography, or How to Write a Feminist Art HistoryVictoria Horne and Amy Tobin12. Sounding Out Manifesto Forms: A proposition for feminism's queer art historiesLaura Guy

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  • : 9781784533250
  • : I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd.
  • : I.B.Tauris
  • : 30 June 2017
  • : 216mm X 138mm X 25mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

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  • : Victoria Horne
  • : Hardback
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