Art and feminism / edited by Helena Reckitt ; survey by Peggy Phelan.
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TextSeries: Themes and movementsPublication details: London ; New York, NY : Phaidon, 2001.Description: 304 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cmISBN: - 0714835293
- 704.042 PHE
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 704.042 PHE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002000394263 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The rich diversity of art informed by feminism since the 1960s
Includes bibliographical references (p. 298-300) and index.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Helena Reckitt is an independent writer and arts organizer with a long-standing critical research interest in feminist art and theory. A former commissioning editor at Routledge, and head of talks at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Reckitt was Curator at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Georgia 2002-2005. She was co-editor, with Joel Oppenheimer, of Acting on AIDS: Sex, Drugs, and Politics (1998) and curated the exhibition 'Found Wanting' (Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, 2000).
Peggy Phelan, a leading feminist theorist of contemporary art and performance, has written extensively on contemporary visual arts and performance from feminist pscyhoanalytic perspectives. Phelan taught in the Department of Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University from 1985 to 2002 and is currently the Ann O'Day Maples Chair in the Arts and Professor of Drama and English at Stanford University. She is the auhtor of Unmarked: The Politics of Performance (1993), Mourning Sex (1997) and co-editor of The Ends of Performance (1998). From 1997-99 Phelan was the recipient of a project fellowship from the Open Society Institute of the Soros Foundataion's Project on Death in America.