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WACK! : art and the feminist revolution / organized by Cornelia Butler ; essays by Cornelia Butler ... [and others] ; edited by Lisa Gabrielle Mark.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feminism and art--Exhibitions.
- Feminism and art.
- Women artists--Exhibitions.
- Women artists.
- Art, Modern--20th century--Exhibitions.
- Art, Modern.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 511 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles : Museum of Contemporary Art ; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- Groundbreaking art from a revolutionary era, featuring work by more than 120 international artists, from Louise Bourgeois and Yoko Ono to Martha Rosler, Marina Abramovič , and Cindy Sherman.
- Contents:
- Art and Feminism: An Ideology of Shifting Criteria / Cornelia Butler 14
- Plates 26
- Artist Biographies 209
- Chronology Through Cartography: Mapping 1970s Feminist Art Globally / Marsha Meskimmon 322
- The Woman Who Never was: Self-Representation, Photography, and First-Wave Feminist Art / Abigail Solomon-Godeau 336
- The Returns of Touch: Feminist Performances, 1960-80 / Peggy Phelan 346
- Hard Targets: Male Bodies, Feminism Art, and the Force of Censorship in the 1970s / Richard Meyer 362
- Voices and Images of Italian Feminism / Judith Russi Rirshner 384
- Abundant Evidence: Black Women Artists of the 1960s and 70s / Valerie Smith 400
- Fugitive Identities and Dissenting Code-Systems: Women Artists During the Military Dictatorship in Chile / Nelly Richard 414
- Painting with Ambivalence / Helen Molesworth 428
- Their Memory is Playing Tricks on Her: Notes Toward a Calligraphy of Rage / Catherine Lord 440
- The Feminist Nomad: The All-Women Group Show / Jenni Sorkin 458
- Selected Chronology of All-Women Group Exhibitions, 1943-83 473
- Checklist of the Exhibition 500.
- Notes:
- "Accompanies the exhibition "WACK! Art and the feminist revolution," organized by Cornelia Butler and presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 4 March-16 July 2007"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0914357999
- 9780914357995
- OCLC:
- 73743482
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