Pain and politics in postwar feminist art : Activism in the work of Nancy Spero / Rachel Warriner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warrine,r Rachel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art & design.

Feminist theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 240 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023.

System Details:

text file

HTML/PDF

Summary:

Between 1966 and 1976, American artist Nancy Spero completed some of her most aggressively political work. Made at a time when Spero was a key member of the anti-war and feminist arts-activism that burgeoned in the New York art world during the period, her works demonstrate a violent and bodily rejection of injustice. Considering the ways in which anti-war and feminist art used emotion as a means to persuade and protest, Pain and Politics in Postwar Feminist Art examines the history of this crucial decade in American art politics through close attention to Spero's practice. Situating her work amongst the activism that defined the era, this book examines the ways in which sensation and emotion became political weapons for a generation of artists seeking to oppose patriarchy and war. Exemplary of the way in which artists were using metaphors of sensation and emotion in their work as part of the anti-Vietnam war and feminist art movements in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Spero's practice acts as a model for representing how politics feels. By exploring Spero's political engagement anew, this book offer a profound recontextualization of the important contribution that Spero made to Feminist thought, politics and art in the US..

Contents:

List of Plates List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Pain and its Politics Pain's Metaphor and Metonymy Chapter Outline Chapter One: Personal and Political: Pain and Emotion 1966-1976 Anti-War Anger and Feminist Hurt Pain 1966-76 Chapter Two: The Suffering of War and the Pain of Alienation Fantasy, the Beast, and Herman Kahn': metaphors and metonymy of war From Symbols of War to the Fractured Symbolic Chapter Three: Codex Artaud: Hysteria and Silence Picturing Silence Hysteria and the Politics of Pain The American Woman Artist Show, GEDOK and the Amerika Haus Chapter Four: Torture of Women as devotional object. Unreliable Witness Torture and Information in the 1970s: Feeling the Pain of Others. Affective meditation and beholding: medieval modes for feminism Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501365065

1501365061

9781786725950

1786725959

OCLC:

1351204736