Radical Gestures Feminism and Performance Art in North America

Name: Radical Gestures Feminism and Performance Art in North America
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ISBN: 9780773529564

ISBN-10: 077352956X

ISBN-13: 9780773529564

Edition: 2006

Authors: Jayne Wark

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Performance art was finally recognized as an art form in its own right in the 1970s. In Radical Gestures Jayne Wark situates feminist performance art in the US and Canada in the social context of the feminist movement and avant-garde art from the 1970s to 2000. She shows that artists drew from feminist politics to create works that, after a long period of modernist aesthetic detachment, made a unique contribution to the re-politicization of art.Wark brings together a wide range of artists, including Lisa Steele, Martha Rosler, Lynda Benglis, Gillian Collyer, Margaret Dragu, and Sylvie Tourangeau, and provides detailed readings and viewings of individual pieces, many of which have not been…

Book details

List price: $110.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Publication date: 8/14/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English




Art, politics, and feminism in the 1960s



The origins of feminist art



Cultural feminism : the essence of difference



Stories to tell : autobiography and narrative



Roles and transformations



Embodiment and representation