Feminism and Contemporary Art : The Revolutionary Power of Women's Laughter

ISBN-13: 9780415080156 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 264 str.

Jo Anna Isaak

Opis

This study of the work of women artists discusses the work of individual women artists in the context of contemporary art practices and in relation to key feminist issues in art history. It looks at the work of a diverse range of artists including women from the United States, the former Soviet Union and the United Kingdom - discussing, among others, the work of Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman and the V Girls. Work by 20th-century Soviet women artists is covered, providing a case study of the production of art in non-Western economic, political and ideological circumstances.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 The Revolutionary Power of Women's Laughter; Chapter 2 Art History and its (Dis)Contents; Chapter 3 Reflections Of Resistance: Women Artists On The Other Side Of The Mir; Chapter 4 Mothers of Invention; Chapter 5 Mapping The Imaginary; Chapter 6 Encore;

O autorze

Jo Anna Isaak is a writer living in New York City. She is the author of The Ruin of Representation in Modernist Art and Texts (1986) and the curator of the exhibition Laughter Ten Years After.