Feminism and Art History Now
Radical Critiques of Theory and Practice
Author: Victoria Horne and Lara Perry
Addressing four decades of feminist art history, this book explores how the movement has influenced art history as a discipline and how it can be adapted and utilised in studies of art today.
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Addressing four decades of feminist art history, this book explores how the movement has influenced art history as a discipline and how it can be adapted and utilised in studies of art today.
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To what extent have developments in global politics, artworld institutions and local cultures reshaped the critical directions of feminist art historians? The significant research gathered in Feminism and Art History Now engages with the rich inheritance of feminist historiography since around 1970, and considers how to maintain the forcefulness of its critique while addressing contemporary political struggles.
Taking on subjects that reflect the museological, global and materialist trajectories of 21st-century art historical scholarship, the chapters address the themes of Invisibility, Temporality, Spatiality and Storytelling. They present new research on a diversity of topics that span political movements in Italy, urban gentrification in New York, community art projects in Scotland and Canada's contemporary indigenous culture. Case studies focus on the art of Lee Krasner, The Emily Davison Lodge, Zoe Leonard, Martha Rosler, Carla Lonzi and Womanhouse. Together with a synthesising introductory essay, these case studies provide readers with a view of feminist art histories of the past, present and future.
Critic Reviews
“"As an innovative selection that engenders new approaches to writing feminist art histories today, [this collection] unquestionably adds to the scholarship and the growing number of edited collections on feminist art and art histories." -- Visual Studies”
As an innovative selection that engenders new approaches to writing feminist art histories today, [this collection] unquestionably adds to the scholarship and the growing number of edited collections on feminist art and art histories. Visual Studies
About the Author
Victoria Horne is Senior Lecturer in Art & Design History at Northumbria University, UK. She was previously Teaching Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and Paul Mellon Centre Postdoctoral Fellow. Horne has published articles in Feminist Review, Radical Philosophy and Journal of Visual Culture. She established the Writing Feminist Art Histories research initiative in 2012 and edited a special issue of Women: A Cultural Review?on the theme ‘Danger! Women Reading: Feminist Encounters with Art, History and Theory’ in 2019.
Lara Perry is Associate Dean for Education & Student Experience in the School of Humanities & Social Science at the University of Brighton, UK. She is the author of History's Beauties: Women and the National Portrait Gallery, 1856-1900 (2006) and co-editor of English Art, 1860-1914: Modern Artists and Identity (2000, with David Peters Corbett) and Politics in a Glass Case: Feminism, Exhibition Cultures and Curatorial Transgressions (2013, with Angela Dimitrakaki).
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