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Radical gestures : feminism and performance art in North America / Jayne Wark.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wark, Jayne, 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feminism and art--Canada--History--20th century.
- Feminism and art.
- Feminism and art--United States--History--20th century.
- Performance art--Canada--History--20th century.
- Performance art.
- Performance art--United States--History--20th century.
- Women performance artists--Canada.
- Women performance artists.
- Women performance artists--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (302 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Wark brings together a wide range of artists, including Lisa Steele, Martha Rosler, Lynda Benglis, Gillian Collyer, Margaret Dragu, and Sylvie Tourangeau, and provides detailed readings and viewings of individual pieces, many of which have not been studied in detail before. She reassesses assumptions about the generational and thematic characteristics of feminist art, placing feminist performance within the wider context of minimalism, conceptualism, land art, and happenings
- Contents:
- Art, politics, and feminism in the 1960's
- The origins of feminist art
- Cultural feminism: the essence of difference
- Stories to tell: autobiography and narrative
- Roles and transformations
- Embodiment and representation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612867156
- 9780773585232
- 0773585230
- 9781282867154
- 1282867156
- 9780773576711
- 0773576711
- OCLC:
- 716069091
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