Women in Revolt! surfaces the lived experiences of a postwar generation of women artists that have, until now, been overlooked. These artists spent their careers and lives challenging the patriarchal power structures, often working in the margins of the museum system that rejected them, forming communities and finding new spaces to exhibit and share knowledge. For these artists, the legacy of trauma and wider global threat of military and nuclear action sat alongside increasing concern about ecological disaster, class struggles and protests around decolonisation, racism and misogyny. This book explores the incredible work created by women artists during a time of great social and political change, commencing with the formation of the women’s liberation art group and key events in 1970 and concluding in 1990, just after the introduction of Section 28 and the opening of the YBA Freeze show. It demonstrates how marginalised women’s needs and experiences were within mainstream culture, and reveals how these artists used radical ideas and methods to confront contemporary issues and fight for their place at the table. Showcasing a wide range of artists working in varied media, it celebrates a creative and politically engaged community that paved the way for future generations and changed the face of British culture.

A landmark anthology on British art history, bringing together overlooked and marginalized perspectives from 'the critical decade' What is Black art? This vital anthology gives voice to a generation of artists of African, Asian and Caribbean heritage who worked within and against British art institutions in the 1980s, including Sonia Boyce, Lubaina Himid, Eddie Chambers and Rasheed Araeen. It brings together artists' statements, interviews, exhibition catalogue essays and reviews, most of which have been unavailable for many years and resonate profoundly today. Together they interrogate the term 'Black art' itself, and revive a forgotten dialogue from a time when men and women who had been marginalized made themselves heard within the art world and beyond.