Authors: G. Pollock, Griselda Pollock
ISBN-13: 9780415141284, ISBN-10: 0415141281
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: December 1996
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Generations and Geographies collects a unique assembly of artists, curators, critics and researchers to consider the question of sexual difference and its significance in the production and reception of visual representation by women artists.Generations indicates a sense of awareness of the historical and political positioning of women, whereas Geographies calls attention to their location in terms of nationality, imperialism, migration, exile, diaspora and social difference.
Drawing on the fullest range of current theoretical perspectives, works by women artists of the twentieth century are examined in terms of themes such as the mother, the body, the land and history/memory. While representing artistic practices in the United States, Canada and Europe through the work of Orlan, Ana Mendieta and Jenny Saville, Generations and Geographies counters the West's artistic hegemony by equally studying women working in non-western contexts. Unique coverage of such artists as Chilean Cecilia Vicuna, Shimada Yoshika from Japan, Jin-me Yoon and Re-Hyun Park from Korea, Bracha Lichtenberg from Israel, and British/Zanibari artist Lubiana Himid provides a long awaited international scope to the study of feminist theory in the visual arts.
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Notes on contributors | ||
Preface | ||
The politics of theory: generations and geographies in feminist theory and the histories of art histories | 3 | |
Reading art? | 25 | |
The knotted subject: hysteria, Irma and Cindy Sherman | 42 | |
Gossip as testimony: a postmodern signature | 58 | |
The Venus Pudica: uncovering art history's 'hidden agendas' and pernicious pedigrees | 69 | |
On viewing three paintings by Jenny Saville: rethinking a feminist practice of painting | 88 | |
Orlan Artist in the post-human age of mechanical reincarnation: body as ready (to be re-) made | 110 | |
The anorexic body: contemporary installation art by women artists in Canada | 135 | |
Beach House | 149 | |
Mother figures: the maternal nude in the work of Kathe Kollwitz and Paula Modersohn-Becker | 159 | |
Mother's anger and mother's desire: the work of Re-Hyun Park | 180 | |
Cecilia Vicuna's Ouvrage: knot a not, notes as knots | 197 | |
'Resting' in history: translating the art of Jin-me Yoon | 217 | |
Embodied geographies: subjectivity and materiality in the work of Ana Mendieta | 228 | |
Comfort women: women of conformity: the work of Shimada Yoshiko | 253 | |
Gleaning in history or coming after/behind the reapers: the feminine, the stranger and the matrix in the work and theory of Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger | 266 | |
Index | 289 |