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Book SynopsisOriginal essays offering fresh ideas and global perspectives on contemporary feminist art The term feminist art' is often misused when viewed as a codification within the discipline of Art Historya codification that includes restrictive definitions of geography, chronology, style, materials, influence, and other definitions inherent to Art Historical and museological classifications. Employing a different approach, A Companion to Feminist Art defines art' as a dynamic set of material and theoretical practices in the realm of culture, and feminism' as an equally dynamic set of activist and theoretical practices in the realm of politics. Feminist art, therefore, is not a simple classification of a type of art, but rather the space where feminist politics and the domain of art-making intersect. The Companion provides readers with an overview of the developments, concepts, trends, influences, and activities within the space of contemporary feminist artin different locations, ways of making
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CHOICE Connect, February 2020 Vol. 57 No. 6
Table of ContentsSeries Editor Preface xi
About the Editors xiii
Notes on Contributors xv
Introduction 1
Part I Geographies 15
1 Recurring Questions, Cyclical Energies: A History of Feminist Art Practices in Australia 17
Julie Ewington
2 Debunking the Patriarchy: Feminist Collectives in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru 37
María Laura Rosa (Translated by Maria Elena Buszek)
3 Women Artists: Making a Subject Space in India 53
Gayatri Sinha
4 Feminism as Activism in Contemporary South African Art 69
Karen von Veh
5 Moving Towards Paratactical Curating: A Critical Overview of Feminist Curating in Istanbul in the Twenty‐First Century 91
Ebru Yetişkin
6 From Within, From Without: Configurations of Feminism, Gender and Art in Post‐Wall Europe 111
Martina Pachmanová
7 Crossing Borders and Other Dividers in Western Europe and the British Isles 127
Alexandra Kokoli
8 Wheels and Waves in the USA 141
Mira Schor
Part II Being 155
9 Essentialism, Feminism, and Art: Spaces Where Woman “Oozes Away” 157
Amelia Jones
10 Feminist Ageing: Representations of Age in Feminist Art 181
Michelle Meagher
11 Letters to Susan 199
Lubaina Himid
12 Feminist Art Re‐Covered 215
Richard Meyer
13 Collecting Creative Transcestors: Trans* Portraiture Hirstory, from Snapshots to Sculpture 225
Eliza Steinbock
Part III Doing 243
14 Witness It: Activism, Art, and the Feminist Performative Subject 245
Hilary Robinson
15 Feminism and Language 261
Griselda Pollock
16 Busy Hands, Light Work: Toward a Feminist Historiography of Hand‐Made Photography in the Era of the ‘New Materiality’ 283
Harriet Riches
17 Reading Posthumanism in Feminist New Media Art 299
Maria Fernandez
18 Finding Ourselves Feminists: Curating and Exhibitions 315
Lucy Day and Eliza Gluckman
19 Erasure, Transformation and the Politics of Pedagogy as Feminist Artistic/Curatorial Practice 331
Felicity Allen
Part IV Thinking 351
20 Art Matters: Feminist Corporeal‐Materialist Aesthetics 353
Marsha Meskimmon
21 The Hidden Abode Beneath/Behind/Beyond the Factory Floor, Gendered Labor, and the Human Strike: Claire Fontaine’s Italian Marxist Feminism 369
Jaleh Mansoor
22 Dear World: Arts and Theories of Queer Feminism 389
Tirza Latimer
23 From Representation to Affect: Beyond Postmodern Identity Politics in Feminist Art 405
Susan Best
24 Call and Response: Conversations with Three Women Artists on Afropean Decoloniality 419
Alanna Lockward
Part V Relating 437
25 On Feminism, Art and Collaboration 439
Amy Tobin
26 Opening the Patriarchive: Photography, Feminism, and State Violence 459
Siona Wilson
27 Maternal Mattering: The Performance and Politics of the Maternal in Contemporary Art 475
Natalie Loveless
28 Ars Eroticas of Their Own Making: Explicit Sexual Imagery in American Feminist Art 493
Tanya Augsburg
29 Masculinity, Art, and Value Extraction: An Intersectional Reading in the Advance of Capital as Post‐Democracy 513
Angela Dimitrakaki
30 New Subjects and Subjectivities 533
Jill Bennett
Index 545
