Feminist art and the maternal / Andrea Liss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Liss, Andrea.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts, Modern--20th century.

Arts, Modern.

Feminism and art.

Motherhood in art.

Women artists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 176 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Feminist motherhood is a surprisingly unexplored subject. In fact, feminism and motherhood have been often thought of as incompatible. Profound, provocative, and innovative, Feminist Art and the Maternal is the first work to critically examine the dilemmas and promises of representing feminist motherhood in contemporary art and visual culture. Andrea Liss skillfully incorporates theory with passionate personal reflections on the maternal, and in doing so she advances a fresh and necessary perspective on both feminism and art. Offering new research on works by well-known and emerging artists wh

Contents:

Breaching the taboo

Intersubjectivities: Mary Kelly's post-partum document

Maternal care: Mierle Laderman Ukeles's maintenance art

Mamas out of place

Making the maternal visible: Rene Cox's family portraits

Loving in difference: Ngozi Onwurah's mother-daughter reflections

Interlude: cultural and maternal notes on living through breast cancer

Maternal mourning: a collaboration between Civia Rosenberg and May Stevens.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-169) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-6627-X

OCLC:

318218434