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Women making art : history, subjectivity, aesthetics / Marsha Meskimmon.
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TextPublication details: London : Routledge, 2002.Description: 256 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 0415242789 (PBK.)
- 704.042 MES
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 704.042 MES (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100303115 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Women have been making art for centuries, yet their work has been seen as secondary or has gone unrecognised altogether. Women Making Art asks why this is so, and what it would take for us to realise the extent of women's extraordinary contribution to the arts. Marsha Meskimmon mobilises contemporary feminist thinking to reconsider how and why women have made art. She examines work by a wide range of women artists from different cultures and historical periods, including Rebecca Horn, Rachel Whiteread, Shirin Neshat and Maya Lin, emphasising the diversity of women's art and the importance of differences between women.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of illustrations (p. ix)
- Acknowledgements (p. xiii)
- Introduction: women making art (p. 1)
- Exhilaration and danger (p. 1)
- The work of art (p. 4)
- New epistemes (p. 7)
- Part I History (p. 11)
- Introduction (p. 13)
- 1 Exiled histories: Holocaust and Heimat (p. 17)
- Home, covenant and the profundity of the everyday (p. 21)
- High culture, assimilation and modernity (p. 27)
- 2 Corporeal cartography: women artists of the anglophone African diaspora (p. 35)
- Dancers, mothers and modernity (p. 38)
- Dancing: place and ethnography (p. 44)
- 3 Re-inscribing histories: Viet Nam and representation (p. 50)
- Mass media, documentary and reportage (p. 55)
- Nation, difference and bodies politic (p. 60)
- Part II Subjectivity (p. 69)
- Introduction (p. 71)
- 4 Embodiment: space and situated knowledge (p. 75)
- Embodying the woman artist (p. 75)
- Embodied vision: situation(ism), the library and the studio (p. 81)
- Skin, borderlands and mestiza knowledge (p. 85)
- 5 Performativity: desire and the inscribed body (p. 91)
- From the performed to the materialised (p. 91)
- Inside/outside (p. 97)
- Erotic surfaces (p. 105)
- 6 Becoming: individuals, collectives and wondrous machines (p. 110)
- Flower painters and feminist figurations (p. 110)
- Figuring the body in the virtual machine (p. 119)
- Transindividuality and the loop of becoming (p. 124)
- Part III Aesthetics (p. 129)
- Introduction (p. 131)
- 7 Pleasure and knowledge: 'Orientalism' and filmic vision (p. 135)
- Aesthetics: pleasure and the voice (p. 139)
- Aesthetics: pleasure and the embodied eye (p. 144)
- Aesthetics: pleasure and 'inter' space of corporeal theory (p. 148)
- 8 The word and the flesh: text/image re-made (p. 151)
- Reading matter (p. 154)
- The book in the expanded field (p. 160)
- 9 The place of time: Australian feminist art and theory (p. 168)
- A glance at (ec)centric histories (p. 171)
- Hesitation, elaboration and the emergent subject (p. 178)
- Afterword - On Wonder (p. 185)
- Notes (p. 186)
- Bibliography (p. 209)
- Index (p. 223)