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Pain and Politics in Postwar Feminist Art: Activism in the Work of Nancy Spero

Autor Rachel Warriner
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 feb 2023
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781788312608
ISBN-10: 1788312600
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 8 colour & 46 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

With contemporary political practice turning to consider questions of war, gender identity, sexuality and right-wing politics, this study speaks to the question of how art objects can act politically

Notă biografică

Rachel Warriner is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art, UK, where her research focuses on the important contribution of activist collectives to the American feminist art movement during the 1970s. She has published widely on feminist art and poetry.

Cuprins

List of PlatesList of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Pain and its Politics Pain's Metaphor and Metonymy Chapter OutlineChapter One: Personal and Political: Pain and Emotion 1966-1976Anti-War Anger and Feminist HurtPain 1966-76Chapter Two: The Suffering of War and the Pain of AlienationFantasy, the Beast, and Herman Kahn': metaphors and metonymy of warFrom Symbols of War to the Fractured SymbolicChapter Three: Codex Artaud: Hysteria and SilencePicturing SilenceHysteria and the Politics of PainThe American Woman Artist Show, GEDOK and the Amerika HausChapter Four: Torture of Women as devotional object.Unreliable WitnessTorture and Information in the 1970s: Feeling the Pain of Others.Affective meditation and beholding: medieval modes for feminismConclusion NotesIndex

Recenzii

Pain and Politics in Postwar Feminist Art is a timely account of the aesthetics and ethics of pain as a physical, social, and psychic force. Warriner's richly contextual analysis presents a compelling new picture of the work of Spero and of pain as a crucial subject and strategy for feminist and anti-war art and activism.
Pain and Politics in Postwar Feminist Art not only offers a fresh take on the work of Nancy Spero, but a methodological intervention in the study of political art. The focus on pain offers a framework for understanding empathy, representation and affect, while Warriner's close attention to the psychic, the embodied and the social give much needed nuance to the feminist refrain the "personal is political".