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Beyond the Frame rewrites the history of Victorian art to explore the relationships between feminism and visual culture in a period of heady excitement and political struggle. Artists were caught up in campaigns for women's enfranchisement, education and paid work, and many were drawn into controversies about sexuality. This richly documented and compelling study considers painting, sculpture, prints, photography, embroidery and comic drawings as well as major styles such as Pre-Raphaelitism, Neo-Classicism and Orientalism. Drawing on critical theory and post-colonial studies to analyse the links between visual media, modernity and imperialism, Deborah Cherry argues that visual culture and feminism were intimately connected to the relations of power. eBook available with sample pages: HB:0415107261
Beyond the Frame rewrites the history of Victorian art to explore the relationships between feminism and visual culture in a period of heady excitement and political struggle. Artists were caught up in campaigns for women's enfranchisement, education and paid work, and many were drawn into controversies about sexuality. This richly documented and compelling study considers painting, sculpture, prints, photography, embroidery and comic drawings as well as major styles such as Pre-Raphaelitism, Neo-Classicism and Orientalism. Drawing on critical theory and post-colonial studies to analyse the links between visual media, modernity and imperialism, Deborah Cherry argues that visual culture and feminism were intimately connected to the relations of power.
South Asia is famous for its monuments, past and present. Monuments
have been created, destroyed and rescued by competing communities
and incoming empires in the making and re-making of history,
identity and memory. This collection brings together an
international cohort of senior scholars and younger researchers to
examine the vast diversity of monuments (and conceptions of
monuments) in South Asia from the 1850s to the present. The
chapters investigate what constitutes a monument, and interrogate
the conditions for its survival, demise or recycling. To explore
the afterlives of monuments is to investigate how, where, when, and
why monuments have been remodelled, re-sited, destroyed, defaced,
or abandoned. It is to investigate the theories of memory, history
and community, as well as new forms of artistic practice and global
media. As different South-Asian communities claim a stake in the
making of national, religious, cultural and local identities and
histories, the status of monuments and debates about cultural
memory have become increasingly urgent. This book was published as
a special issue of South Asian Studies.
Tracey Emin has undergone an extraordinary metamorphosis from a
young, unknown artist into the ‘bad girl’ of the Young British
Art (YBA) movement, challenging the complacency of the art
establishment in both her work and her life. Today she is arguably
the doyenne of the British art scene and attracts more acclaim than
controversy. Her work is known by a wide audience, yet rarely
receives the critical attention it deserves. In Tracey Emin: Art
Into Life, writers from a range of art historical, artistic and
curatorial perspectives examine how Emin’s art, life and
celebrity status have become inextricably intertwined. This
innovative collection explores Emin’s intersectional identity,
including her Turkish-Cypriot heritage, ageing and sexuality,
reflects on her early years as an artist, and debates issues of
autobiography, self-presentation and performativity alongside the
multi-media exchanges of her work and the tensions between art and
craft. With its discussions of the central themes of Emin's art,
attention to key works such as My Bed, and accessible theorization
of her creative practice, Tracey Emin: Art into Life will interest
a broad readership.
Tracey Emin has undergone an extraordinary metamorphosis from a
young, unknown artist into the 'bad girl' of the Young British Art
(yBA) movement, challenging the complacency of the art
establishment in both her work and her life. Today she is arguably
the doyenne of the British art scene and attracts more acclaim than
controversy. Her work is known by a wide audience, yet rarely
receives the critical attention it deserves. In Art Into Life:
Essays on Tracey Emin writers from a range of art historical,
artistic and curatorial perspectives examine how Emin's art, life
and celebrity status have become inextricably intertwined. This
innovative collection explores Emin's intersectional identity,
including her Turkish-Cypriot heritage, ageing and sexuality,
reflects on her early years as an artist, and debates issues of
autobiography, self-presentation and performativity alongside the
multi-media exchanges of her work and the tensions between art and
craft. With its discussions of the central themes of Emin's art,
attention to key works such as My Bed, and accessible theorization
of her creative practice, Art into Life will interest a broad
readership.
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