{"product_id":"feminist-perspectives-on-art-9781138061811","title":"Feminist Perspectives on Art","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the body is foregrounded in artwork  as in much contemporary performance, sculptural installation and video work  so is gendered and sexualised difference. \u003ci\u003eFeminist Perspectives on Art: Contemporary Outtakes \u003c\/i\u003elooks to interactions between art history, theory, curation, and studio-based practices to theorise the phenomenological import of this embodied gender difference in contemporary art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe essays in this collection are rooted in a wide variety of disciplines, including art-making, curating, and art history and criticism, with many of the authors combining roles of curator, artist and writer. This interdisciplinary approach enables the book to bridge the theorypractice divide and highlight new perspectives emerging from creative arts research. Fresh insights are offered on feminist aesthetics, women's embodied experience, curatorial and art historical method, art world equity, and intersectional concerns. It engages with epistemological assertions of \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A rousing riposte to anyone who thinks that feminism is now ‘post’, this book full of fascinating accounts of a disparate range of practises provides a challenge to patriarchal attitudes in the artworld in engaging, enlightening and at times humorous ways – a veritable celebration of female creativity and thought.\" - Elizabeth Ann Macgregor OBE, Director, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"A rousing riposte to anyone who thinks that feminism is now ‘post’, this book is full of fascinating accounts of a disparate range of practises and provides a challenge to patriarchal attitudes in the artworld in engaging, enlightening and, at times, humorous ways – a veritable celebration of female creativity and thought.\"\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e-- Elizabeth Ann Macgregor OBE, Director, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"The volume edited by Jacqueline Millner and Catriona Moore shows the difficulty and weariness caused by the writing of a history that is never dealt with and carried out once and for all.\"\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e-- Laura Lamurri, Critique d'art\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction; Chapter 1 A feminist curator walks into a gallery…; Chapter 2 The value of maturity: Anne Ferran, Judith Wright, Lindy Lee; Chapter 3 Women in the Cross-cultural Studio: Invisible Tracks in the Indigenous artist’s archive; Chapter 4 The Pearl Gibbs ‘Gambanyi’ Kangaroo Cloak; Chapter 5 Still in my mind: Gurindji location, experience and visuality; Chapter 6 The practice of remaining perpetually contingent; Chapter 7 Curating Grief; Chapter 8 The Intimate Monument: Memorialising from a feminist perspective; Chapter 9 FLORINA PREFECTURE: Women in the shadow of ‘The Magnificent Empire’ 1900-1922 \u0026amp; 2017 — a feminist interpretation of Greek-Australian identity as explored in contemporary art; Chapter 10 Feeling seeing: image, sound and touch in the video installations of Angelica Mesiti; Chapter 11 Materialising the Interval: Relationality as a feminist art practice; Chapter 12 Heave, Ho, Ha: Disgust, humour and failure in contemporary feminist art; Chapter 13 Slim evidence of fat fortunes: toward a gendered history of fat acceptance\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407212552535,"sku":"9781138061811","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138061811.jpg?v=1730498587","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/feminist-perspectives-on-art-9781138061811","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}