SCUMB manifesto / Justine Kurland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kurland, Justine, artist, author.

Gladman, Renee, author.

Chao, Marina, author.

Lord, Catherine, 1949- author.

Reines, Ariana, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kurland, Justine.

Feminism in art.

Photocollage.

Photography, Artistic.

Photomontage.

Physical Description:

278 pages (some folded) : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 33 cm. + 1 poster.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Society for Cutting Up Men's Books manifesto

Place of Publication:

[London] : MACK, [2022]

Summary:

"Presents a collection of collages Kurland created by cutting up and reconfiguring photobooks by male artists, as she went through the process of purging her own library of roughly 150 books by straight white men that have monopolized the photographic canon. The nature of collage--heterogeneous, pulled apart, shape shifting, disrupted, cyborg, fantasy--has long made it a feminist strategy in life and in art. Kurland's ritual is restorative and loving: each work is a reclamation of history; a dismemberment of the patriarchy; a gender inversion of the usual terms of possession; and a modest attempt at offsetting a life of income disparity. While markedly different in style, the defiant female visions pictured in these compositions are a continuation of those depicted in Kurland's earlier photographic projects 'Girl Pictures' (1997-2002) and 'Mama Babies' (2004-07). Each work in 'SCUMB' sounds an electrifying call for freedom--the freedom to create, to destroy, to imagine, and to reshape our visual and social world."--Publisher web site (viewed 2022 May 5), https://mackbooks.co.uk/products/scumb-manifesto-br-justine-kurland.

Contents:

We were cuts cutting / Renee Gladman

Cunts with the kitchen knife : notes on feminist collage and torn paper / Marina Chao

The commonplace / Catherine Lord

The first cut is the deepest / Ariana Reines

SCUMB / Justine Kurland.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

"Society for Cutting Up Men's Books."

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Contains:

Container of: Gladman, Renee. We were cuts cutting.

Container of: Chao, Marina. Cunts with the kitchen knife.

Container of: Lord, Catherine, 1949- Commonplace.

Container of: Reines, Ariana. First cut is the deepest.

ISBN:

9781913620561

1913620565

OCLC:

1281650364