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Women artists have made a huge contribution to contemporary mainstream art, and their rise to international prominence has accompanied the development of feminism, feminist theory and history of art. Jo Anna Isaak's important new study of the work of women artists discusses the work of individual women artists in the context of contemporary art practices and in relation to key feminist issues in art history. Isaak looks at the work of a diverse range of artists including women from the United States, the former Soviet Union and the United Kingdom - discussing, among others, the work of Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman and the Guerilla Girls. Isaak discusses work by 20th century Soviet women artists, providing a fascinating case study of the production of art in non-Western economic, political and ideological circumstances.
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Nancy Spero (Paperback)
Jon Bird, Jo Anna Isaak, Sylvere Lotringer
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American artist Nancy Spero (b.1929) concentrates on the depiction
of women: mythological women, movie women, tortured women. Inspired
by classical and modern sources, she collages and imprints her
contemporary goddesses on to long, papyrus-like friezes that scroll
around museum walls. Her subject matter, which has ranged from the
writings of Artaud to the Vietnam War, mirrors her life. Working in
Paris in the cultural ferment of the 1960s, she moved to New York
in the 1970s to co-establish the feminist gallery A.I.R. and to
join with artists and critics such as Leon Golub, Robert Morris and
Lucy R Lippard in forming the Art Workers' Coalition. Since the
1980s she has attracted international acclaim, her exquisite works
giving form to feminist issues and new critical discourses. The
Survey by Jon Bird, cultural theorist and curator of the first
British retrospective of Spero's work, discusses developments in
her practice since the 1950s. Contemporary art scholar and critic
Jo Anna Isaak talks with the artist about her life and work. Art
historian Sylvere Lotringer, Edtior of Semiotext(e) and author of
Overexposed, focuses on her 1993 installation at the Whitney Museum
of American Art. In recognition of the impact Stanley Kubrick's Dr
Strangelove made on her, Spero has chosen a scene from the
screenplay; key excerpts from Gynesis: Configurations of Woman and
Modernity by feminist theorist Alice Jardine on the place of women
in a patriarchal culture complete the Artist's Choice section. Also
included are a selection of Spero's own writings, many published
here for the first time.
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