Radical Gestures - Feminism and Performance Art in North America (Paperback)

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 Canada and the United States 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 studied in detail before. She reassesses assumptions about the generational and thematic characteristics of feminist art, placing feminist performance within the wider context of minimalism, conceptualism, land art, and happenings

General

Imprint:	McGill-Queen's University Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	August 2006
First published:	August 2006
Authors:	Jayne Wark
Dimensions:	231 x 154 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-0-7735-3066-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Sculpture & other three-dimensional art forms > General Promotions
LSN:	0-7735-3066-5
Barcode:	9780773530669

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