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Women in Revolt! - Art and Activism
Linsey Young; Text written by Alice Correia, Zuzana Flaskova, Rachel Garfield, Juliet Jacques, …
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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.
Making New Worlds: Li Yuan-chia & Friends is the first book to
document the extraordinary activity at the LYC Museum & Art
Gallery in Banks, Cumbria between 1972 and 1983. The LYC was the
singleminded effort of the artist Li Yuan-chia, who moved to the
rural North of England by way of London, Bologna, Taipei and
Guangxi, China. At the LYC, Li organised exhibitions, published
books, exhibited archealogical artefacts, arranged workshops and
welcomed an array of visitors from local and international artists
and art workers to nearby residents and travellers, many of whom
became friends. In this book, which accompanies an exhibition of
the same name at Kettle's Yard, the curators Hammad Nasar, Amy
Tobin and Sarah Victoria Turner, establish Li's work at the LYC as
a form of worldmaking, connecting his cosmic conceptual art
practice, to his interest in participation and friendship as well
as his engagement with nature and the landscape. Nasar, Tobin and
Turner's account is accompanied by nine short texts – by
Elizabeth Fisher, Ysanne Holt, Annie Jael Kwan, Lesley Ma, Gustavo
Grandal Montero, Luke Roberts, Nick Sawyer & Harriet Aspin,
Nicola Simpson and Diana Yeh – that trace the diverse threads and
ramifications of Li's practice historically and in the present.
Richly illustrated, Making New Worlds offers a provocative new way
of thinking the history of British art in the 20th century.Â
A fresh perspective on collaboration, collectivity, and conflict in
the women’s art movement of the 1970s  Women Artists
Together is a thought-provoking study of how the women’s
liberation movement galvanized a generation of women artists. It
offers a fresh perspective on the history of the women’s art
movement and considers how it was shaped by collaboration and
togetherness. Retracing 1970s liberation politics, Amy Tobin
emphasizes how artworks emerged from—and contested—feminist
paradigms and contexts. Â Taking class, gender, race, and
sexuality as central concerns, the book includes examples of
inspirational feminist activism as well as fallings out,
disagreements, and antagonism. Across four chapters, Tobin looks at
the work of UK- and US-based artists including Judy Chicago, Mary
Beth Edelson, Rose English, Harmony Hammond, Candace
Hill-Montgomery, Claudette Johnson, Suzanne Lacy, Howardena
Pindell, Ingrid Pollard, Carolee Schneemann, Cecilia Vicuña, and
Kate Walker. Groups include the Feminist Art Programme at Cal Arts,
Women’s Workshop of the Artists’ Union, Where We At, Black
Women Artists Inc., and the South London Art Group, publications
such as Heresies and Chrysalis, along with writers and curators
including Lucy R. Lippard and Arlene Raven.
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Sutapa Biswas: Lumen (Paperback)
Amy Tobin; Text written by Anna Arabindan Kesson, Sutapa Biswas, Alina Khakoo, Courtney J. Martin, …
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Lumen, a survey of the four-decade career of British-Indian artist
Sutapa Biswas, accompanies two solo exhibitions of the artist's
work held in 2021-22. Biswas emigrated from India to the UK with
her family in the 1960s. Taking the long histories of colonialism
together with personal memories, Biswas's art meditates on
questions of migration, identity and belonging. Her practice has
consistently interrogated Western tradition and discourse, pushing
past absences, exclusions and limited representations to make
evident the entwined histories of culture and politics. This
publication details Biswas's career from its origins in the Black
Arts Movement in the 1980s to her important photographic
installations of the 1990s and her subsequent major moving-image
works, including her newly commissioned film Lumen. The first
substantial publication on the artist in over 17 years, it features
two new conversations with the artist and two commissioned essays.
It also includes a republication of Griselda Pollock's important
text on Biswas's work, along with a postface reflecting on their
relationship in the decades since the essay's original publication.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition: Sutapa Biswas: Lumen
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (26 June 2021-22
March 2022) and Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge (16 October
2021-30 January 2022).
The essays in this collection explore the extraordinarily rich
networks of international artists and art practices that emerged in
and around London during the 1960s and '70s, a period that saw an
explosion of new media and fresh attitudes and approaches to making
and thinking about art. The contributors to London Art Worlds
examine the many activities and movements that existed alongside
more established institutions in this period, from the rise of
cybernetics and the founding of alternative publications to the
public protests and new pedagogical models in London's art schools.
The essays explore how international artists and the rise of
alternative venues, publications, and exhibitions, along with a
growing mobilization of artists around political and cultural
issues ranging from feminism to democracy, pushed the boundaries of
the London art scene beyond the West End's familiar galleries and
posed a radical challenge to established modes of making and
understanding art. Engaging, wide-ranging, and original, London Art
Worlds provides a necessary perspective on the visual culture of
the London art scene in the 1960s and '70s. Art historians and
scholars of the era will find these essays especially valuable and
thought provoking. In addition to the editors, contributors to this
volume are Elena Crippa, Antony Hudek, Dominic Johnson, Carmen
Julia, Courtney J. Martin, Lucy Reynolds, Joy Sleeman, Isobel
Whitelegg, and Andrew Wilson.
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