Insurgent muse : life and art at the Woman's Building / by Terry Wolverton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolverton, Terry.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wolverton, Terry.

Woman's Building (Los Angeles, Calif.).

Feminism--California--Los Angeles.

Feminism.

Women artists--California--Los Angeles.

Women artists.

Women authors--California--Los Angeles.

Women authors.

California--Los Angeles.

Physical Description:

xviii, 240 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Life and art at the Woman's Building

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : City Lights, [2002]

Summary:

In the 1970s, the West Coast feminist arts movement coalesced around the Woman's Building in Los Angeles. Founded by artist Judy Chicago, the Woman's Building was conceived as a "public center for women's culture." Women from across the country were drawn there to be part of a community engaged in the exploration of what a female-centered culture might mean.

In Insurgent Muse, Terry Wolverton chronicles her own 13-year involvement in the Woman's Building. Arriving as a young art student in 1976, she stayed on to become a teacher and co-founder of the Lesbian Art Project and, eventually, the Building's executive director. Her journey -- emblematic of many women who sought to redefine themselves in the light of feminism -- entails confrontation with the damages of sexism, the pitfalls of utopian community, and the forces of social backlash.

Contents:

Requiem, 1995 1

Resurrection, 1976 9

Feminist Education, 1976-1977 27

Lesbian Art: A Partial Inventory, 1977-1980 57

Performativity, 1978-1986 97

Recovery in Four Movements, 1979-1989 123

Survival, 1981-1987 167

The Vortex, 1987-1991 197

Medicine, 2001 235.

ISBN:

0872864030 :

OCLC:

50814020