Difference and excess in contemporary art : the visibility of women's practice / edited by Gill Perry.
Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford : Blackwell, c2004.Description: 183 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 1405112026 (pbk.)
- Art history.
- 704.042 PER
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This thought-provoking book explores the increasing visibility of women's art in Britain, Europe and America.
Considers the work of American artists Martha Rosler and Kara Walker, Irish artist Alice Maher, British artists Lubaina Himid, Christine Borland, Sarah Lucas, Cornelia Parker, Gillian Wearing and Rachel Whiteread, and the international performance group, moti roti.
Features specially-commissioned interviews with some of these artists.
Covers diverse media, from sculpture and painting through to photography, installations, video and performance.
"First published as Volume 26, number 3 of Art History."--T.p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : visibility, difference and excess / Gill Perry -- 'Out of it ': drunkenness and ethics in Martha Rosler and Gillian Wearing / David Hopkins -- A strange alchemy : Cornelia Parker / interviewed by Lisa Tickner -- Antibodies : Rachel Whiteread's 'Water Tower' / Sue Malvern -- Hybrid Histories : Alice Maher / interviewed by Fionna Barber -- Reading black through white in the work of Kara Walker / a discussion between Michael Corris and Robert Hobbs -- Corporeal theory with/in practice : Christine Borland's 'Winter Garden' / Marsha Meskimmon -- Cultural crossings : performing race and trans-gender in the work of moti roti / Dorothy Rowe -- Lubaina Himid's 'Plan B' : Close up magic and tricky allusions / Jane Beckett.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- 1 Introduction: Visibility, Difference and Excess
- 2 'Out of it': Drunkenness and Ethics in Martha Rosler and Gillian Wearing
- 3 A Strange Alchemy: Cornelia Parker: Interviewed
- 4 Antibodies: Rachel Whiteread's Water Tower
- 5 Hybrid Histories: Alice Maher
- 6 Reading Black Through White in the Work of Kara Walker: A Discussion Between
- 7 Corporeal Theory with in Practice: Christine Borland's Winter Garden
- 8 Cultural Crossings: Performing Race and Trans-gender in the Work of moti roti
- 9 Lubaina Himid's Plan B: Close-up Magic and Tricky Allusions