Addressing the other woman : textual correspondences in feminist art and writing / Kimberly Lamm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lamm, Kimberly, author.

Series:

Rethinking art's histories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism and art.

Women in art.

Women in literature.

Other (Philosophy) in art.

Other (Philosophy) in literature.

Feminist art criticism.

Art and literature.

Physical Description:

xvi, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018.

Summary:

This book analyses how three artists - Adrian Piper, Nancy Spero and Mary Kelly - worked with the visual dimensions of language in the 1960s and 1970s. These artists used text and images of writing to challenge female stereotypes, addressing viewers and asking them to participate in the project of imagining women beyond familiar words and images of subordination. The book explores this dimension of their work through the concept of 'the other woman', a utopian wish to reach women and correspond with them across similarities and differences. To make the artwork's aspirations more concrete, it places the artists in correspondence with three writers - Angela Davis, Valerie Solanas, and Laura Mulvey - who also addressed the limited range of images through which women are allowed to become visible.

Contents:

I Writing the 'I' otherwise: telegraphing black feminism in the work of Adrian Piper and Angela Davis 23

1 Adrian Piper's textual address 29

2 Letters from an imaginary enemy, Angela Davis 72

II Typing the poetry of monsters: Nancy Spero and Valerie Solanas write aggression 101

3 Writing the drives in Nancy Spero's Codex Artaud 107

4 Valerie Solanas's SCUM Manifesto and the texts of aggression 146

III Hieroglyphs of maternal desire: the collaborative texts of Mary Kelly and Laura Mulvey 179

5 Rewriting maternal femininity in Mary Kelly's Post-Partum Document 186

6 Feminist desires and collective reading in the work of Laura Mulvey 232.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Lamm, Kimberly. Addressing the other woman.

ISBN:

1526121263

9781526121264

OCLC:

991340177