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Une sélection d'autoportraits féminins empruntés à toute l'histoire de l'art, de la religieuse anonyme qui glissa son effigie dans la lettrine d'un manuscrit du XIIe siècle à Cindy Sherman et ses photogrammes révélateurs des visions stéréotypées de la femme, en passant par Sofonisba Anguissola, Artemisia Gentileschi, Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Frida Kahlo, Hannah Wilke, etc.

During the 1930s and 1940s, women artists associated with the Surrealist movement produced a significant body of self-images that have no equivalent among the works of their male colleagues. While male artists exalted Woman's otherness in fetishized images, women artists explored their own subjective worlds. The self-images of Claude Cahun, Dorothea Tanning, Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo, Meret Oppenheim, Remedios Varo, Kay Sage and others both internalize and challenge conventions for representing femininity, the female body, and female subjectivity. Many of the representational strategies employed by these pioneers continue to resonate in the work of contemporary women artists. The words "Surrealist" and "surrealism" appear frequently in discussions of such contemporary artists as Louise Bourgeois, Ana Mendieta, Cindy Sherman, Francesca Woodman, Kiki Smith, Dorothy Cross, Michiko Kon and Paula Santigo. This book, which accompanies an exhibition organized by the MIT List Visual Art Center, explores specific aspects of the relationship between historic and contemporary work in the context of Surrealism. The contributors re-examine art historical assumptions about gender, identity, and integenerational legacies within modernist and postmodernist frameworks. Questions raised include: how did women in both groups draw from their experiences of gender and sexuality? What do contemporary artistic practices involving the use of body images owe to the earlier examples of both female and male Surrealists? What is the relationship between self-image and self-knowledge. (source: Nielsen Book Data)

An examination of the social and cultural significance of body art by a major new voice. The past few years have seen an explosion of interest in body art, in which the artist's body is integral to the work of art. With the revoking of NEA funding for such artists as Karen Finley, Tim Miller, and others, public awareness and media coverage of body-oriented performances have increased. Yet the roots of body art extend to the 1960s and before. In this definitive book, Amelia Jones explores body art projects from the 1960s and 1970s and relates their impact to the work of body artists active today, providing a new conceptual framework for defining postmodernism in the visual arts. Jones begins with a discussion of the shifting intellectual terrain of the 1950s and 1960s, focusing on the work of Ana Mendieta. Moving to an examination of the reception of Jackson Pollock's "performative" acts of painting, she argues that Pollock is a pivotal figure between modernism and postmodernism. The book continues with explorations of Vito Acconci and Hannah Wilke, whose practices exemplify a new kind of performance that arose in the late 1960s, one that represents a dramatic shift in the conception of the artistic subject. Jones then surveys the work of a younger generation of artists -- including Laurie Anderson, Orlan, Maureen Connor, Lyle Ashton Harris, Laura Aguilar, and Bob Flanagan -- whose recent work integrates technology and issues of identity to continue to expand the critique begun in earlier body art projects. Embracing an exhilarating mix of methodologies and perspectives (including feminism, queer theory, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and literary theory), this rigorous and elegantexamination of body art provides rich historical insight and essential context that rethinks the parameters of postmodern culture.

In Generations and Geographies, the challenge of contemporary feminist theory encounters the provocation of the visual arts made by women in the twentieth century. The major issue is difference: sexual, cultural and social. Generations points to the singularity of each artist's creative negotiation of time and historical and political circumstance; Geographies calls attention to the significance of place, location and cultural diversity, connecting issues of sexuality to those of nationality, imperialism, migration, diaspora and genocide.Generations and Geographies is framed by theoretical debates in cultural analysis by Griselda Pollock, Mieke Bal, Elisabeth Bronfen and Irit Rogoff, and two historical analyses of representations of the female nude by Rosemary Betterton and Nanette Salomon. Essays on international contemporary art discuss artistic practice by women working in both western and non-western contexts, focusing on themes of the mother, the body, the land and history/memory. The artists discussed include the French performance artist Orlan, the Cuban American artist Ana Mendieta and Jenny Saville from Britain, the Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuna, Shimada Yoshiko from Japan, the Korean artist Re-Hyun Park and the Korean/Canadian artist Jin-me Yoon, Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger from Israel and the American artist Cindy Sherman. British/Zanzibari artist Lubaina Himid provides specially commissioned artists' pages on the theme of history, location and displacement.

Premier chapitre du Passage du siècle (les grands bilans que le Centre Georges Pompidou proposera en 1996 et 1997), cette exposition renoue avec des expériences décisives comme par exemple "Eros", organisée en 1959 par Marcel Duchamp et André Breton. A travers le titre "Féminin - Masculin, le sexe de l'art" s'exprime un double enjeu : celui de réhabiliter le terme dévalué d'une opposition inscrite dans la tradition des couples hiérarchiques de la pensée occidentale (forme/matière, vérité/mensonge, être/paraître, profondeur/surface, etc.) ; celui de montrer qu'au delà d'un simple sujet-motif artistique, le sexe est partie prenante des processus de l'art lui-même. L'ambition de cette exposition est de montrer, en dehors de toute approche chronologique, comment les productions artistiques du XXe siècle n'ont eu de cesse de venir brouiller les fatalités biologiques, anatomiques et culturelles traditionnellement liées au sexe. Aborder l'art dans la perspective de la différence sexuelle, ce n'est pas mécaniquement opposer un art "masculin" à un art "féminin", mais tenter de donner à voir comment les oeuvres se trouvent traversées par cette question, au-delà du sexe - du genre - des artistes qui les produisent. Féminin - Masculin, le sexe de l'art montrera aussi la coexistence dans ce siècle de deux généalogies artistiques concernant le sexe. L'une, à partir de Picasso, s'inscrit dans la tradition classique de la différence des sexes, conçue comme une opposition dialectique et organique du masculin et du féminin. L'autre, à partir de Marcel Duchamp, inaugure un nouveau type de relations, selon une logique asymétrique, faisant circuler les intensités masculines et féminines sur un mode proliférant qui opère une déterritorialisation des entités anatomiques, identificatoires et formelles. Les artistes de la jeune génération (tant américaine qu'européenne) semblent très sensibles à cette manière de déstabiliser les polarités traditionnelles du masculin et du féminin, mettant en oeuvre de nouvelles configurations éthiques et formelles qui se situent au-delà de la différence sexuelle, et en cela se distinguant en radicalement des positions identitaires des années 70.

Instabili: La question du sujet, sous la direction de Marie Fraser et Lesley Johnstone Publiés à l’occasion du 16e anniversaire de Powerhouse, sept textes et cinq projets d’artistes questionnent les multiples rapports existant entre féminisme et arts visuels, et proposent également une histoire de la galerie. L’ouvrage inclut aussi une chronologie des événements (1973-1989) qui ont marqué cette histoire. Textes de Marie Fraser, Christine Ross, Mary Kelly, Catherine Bédard, Liz Magro, Joanna Nash, Thérèse St-Gelais et Nell Tenhaaf.