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"Charting over 45 years of feminist debate on the significance of gender in the making and understanding of art, the long-anticipated new edition of Feminism-Art-Theory has been extensively updated and reworked. Completely revised, retaining only one-third of the texts of the earlier edition, with all other material being new inclusionsBrings together 88 revealing texts from North America, Europe and Australasia, juxtaposing writings from artists and activists with those of academicsEmbraces a broad range of threads and perspectives, from diverse national and global approaches, lesbian and queer theory, and postmodernism, to education and aestheticsIncludes many classic texts, but is particularly notable for its inclusion of rare and significant material not reprinted elsewhereProvides a uniquely flexible resource for study and research due to its scale and structure; each of the seven sections focuses on a specific area of debate, with texts arranged chronologically in order to show how issues and arguments developed over time"--Page 4 de la couverture.

La place et le rôle des femmes dans l'art et dans le spectacle vivant, entre 1912 et 2012, aux lisières de la performance et de la danse. A l'heure des re-enactements et autres remakes des performances historiques, il semblait important de s'interroger sur la place des femmes dans les avant-gardes des années 1910-1970. Quel regard portons-nous, aujourd'hui, sur les pionnières qui ont profondément modifié la danse et la performance, en Europe et aux Etats-Unis ? Réunis pour la première fois, des historiens, des philosophes, des danseurs et deux chorégraphes ont accepté de faire le point sur leurs recherches. Par-delà les catégories artistiques (danse, performance, action, pantomime, théâtre, music-hall...) et les clivages (théorie / pratique ; forme / fond), ce livre est une invitation à partager leurs questionnements sur le spectacle vivant « au féminin », ses archives et ses références. Femmes, attitudes performatives rassemble dix contributions, une « interview performative » de La Ribot et un entretien sur La Part du rite de Latifa Laâbissi et Isabelle Launay.

On associe d’ordinaire l’érotisme aux femmes et la pornographie aux hommes. Puis, il y a des œuvres comme Romance de Breillat ou Baise-moi de Despentes et Trinh Thi pour tout ébranler, pour faire voler en éclats ce postulat désuet. Depuis plus de vingt ans, une forme de «métapornographie» veut proposer une représentation de la sexualité des femmes sans l’objectiver ni l’essentialiser, loin du paternalisme et de la victimisation. Des artistes filment leurs propres relations sexuelles, réutilisent des images de l’industrie de la porno ou offrent des performances explicites, tout en se revendiquant féministes. Mais la question de la pornographie, tant en histoire de l’art que dans les études féministes, est un terrain miné. Julie Lavigne se demande d’entrée de jeu comment cette dernière peut devenir meurtrière pour les unes et libératrice pour les autres. Les artistes qui s’approprient les codes de la porno commerciale pour les travestir ne jouent-elles pas au fond le jeu du conformisme? Selon quels critères une œuvre pornographique devient-elle artistique? L’excitation sexuelle est-elle compatible avec un discours critique? Cet essai audacieux explore le phénomène de la pornographie féministe en arts visuels, entre politique et intersubjectivité, en s’appuyant sur les théories de Georges Bataille et de Linda Williams, notamment. Il revisite les œuvres des pionnières Carolee Schneemann, Pipilotti Rist, Annie Sprinkle et Marlene Dumas. «L’analyse que La traversée de la pornographie propose se veut une valorisation d’un travail visuel controversé mais indispensable au regard critique et à la compréhension des féminismes, dont la pluralité demeure saine.» Thérèse St-Gelais, extrait de la préface

Depuis la fin des années 1960, le mouvement féministe a été à l'origine d'innovations, à la fois théoriques et pratiques, qui figurent parmi les plus intéressantes de l'art contemporain. Par ailleurs, certains succès politiques du mouvement féministe ont été obtenus grâce aux artistes, qui ont proposé de nouvelles manières d'envisager les domaines privé et public, l'objet de l'art et son sujet. En soulignant la différence des sexes, le courant féministe a aussi attiré l'attention sur le rôle de l'âge, de la classe sociale, de la race et de la sexualité dans la création artistique et dans sa réception. À la fois critiques et actrices du monde de l'art, les artistes féministes ont donné un nouvel élan à l'art considéré comme démarche à la fois politique et esthétique. Cet ouvrage, conçu par Helena Reckitt, présente les expériences, les idées et les démarches actuelles d'artistes majeures, et met en évidence le lien existant entre les différentes générations d'artistes. L'essai de Peggy Phelan, théoricienne de l'art et de la performance, jette un regard original sur les interprétations classiques de l'art des femmes et propose de nouvelles clés pour comprendre les rapports mouvants entre idées et idéaux du féminisme et pratiques artistiques.

"Self/Image explores the ways in which contemporary artists have deployed new technologies of representation, from analogue photography to more recent artistic practices including digital imaging, performance, robotics, film and video installations, to explore and articulate shifting modes of subjectivity. This book is one of the first full-length studies to investigate the complex intersubjective relations among these diverse artistic practices." "Including over 100 illustrations from mainstream film to independent film, video art, performance and the visual arts, this important and original book provides an excellent companion to more general studies of contemporary art history, and media and cultural studies in the post-1960 period."--Résumé de l'éditeur.

Wark brings together a wide range of artists, including Lisa Steele, Martha Rosler, Lynda Benglis, Gillian Collyer, Margaret Dragu, and Sylvie Tourangeau, and provides detailed readings and viewings of individual pieces, many of which have not been studied in detail before. She reassesses assumptions about the generational and thematic characteristics of feminist art, placing feminist performance within the wider context of minimalism, conceptualism, land art, and happenings

Les années 60 marquent le début d'un art éphémère dans lequel l'objet d'art disparaît au profit d'une mise en scène du corps. Les Actionnistes viennois mêlent des corps féminins ou masculins dans la boue, du sang et des organes animaux etc. Comment ce qui peut paraître aberration ou perturbation de la personnalité est souvent une mise en scène microcosmique des idéologies ou des réalités politiques d'une époque : images d'une coupure Est/Ouest, de frontières infranchissables à l'époque de la guerre froide ou, au contraire, effacement des frontières au temps de la mondialisation avec des artistes de la Scène internationales

Dresse un panorama complet des arts vivants depuis 1960 : happenings, théâtre et opéra d'avant-garde, danse contemporaine, art vidéo, installations multimédias. Yves Klein, Joseph Beuys, Robert Wilson, Tadeusz Kantor, Pina Bausch, Gilbert & George, Philippe Decouflé, entre autres, sont évoqués. L'ouvrage est illustré d'oeuvres européennes, américaines, japonaises et australiennes.

This book explores the new performativity in art theory and practice, examining ways of rethinking interpretive processes in visual culture. Since the 1960s, visual art practices - from body art to minimalism - have taken contemporary art outside the museum and gallery; by embracing theatricality and performance and exploding the boundaries set by traditional art criticism. The contributors argue that interpretation needs to be recognised as much more dynamic and contingent. Offering its own performance script, and embracing both canonical fine artists such as Manet, De Kooning and Jasper Johns, and performance artists such as Vito Acconci and Gunter Brus, this book offers radical re-readings of art works and points confidently towards new models for understanding art.

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.

Published on the occasion of a major exhibition opening at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Inside the Visible presents a gendered reading of more than thirty women artists of vastly different background and experience. The work of important yet previously "invisible" figures is highlighted alongside the work of established artists to create a retheorized interpretation of the art of this century. Structured in terms of recurrent cycles over time, Inside the Visible focuses on three periods (the 1930s and 1940s, the 1960s and 1970s, and the 1990s) that anticipated a wave of political repression, nationalism, and xenophopia, often stimulating artistic production that redefined practice. Illustrated essays document each artist in the collection. In addition, four general essays trace the connections among the artists. These take up such issues as why artistic recognition eluded certain artists and why their work is only just becoming visible today. They also address overlapping themes such as gender and sexuality; the intersection of racial, class, ethnic, sexual, and regional identities; and the nature of the relationship between work and viewer.

The history of Western art is saturated with images of the female body. Lynda Nead's The Female Nude was the first book to critically examine this phenomenon from a feminist perspective and ask: how and why did the female nude acquire this status? In a deft and engaging manner, Lynda Nead explores the ways in which acceptable and unacceptable images of the female body are produced, issues which have been reignited by current controversies around the patriarchy, objectification and pornography. Nead brilliantly illustrates the two opposing poles occupied by the female nude in the history of art; at one extreme the visual culmination of enlightenment aesthetics; at the other, spilling over into the degraded and the obscene. What both have in common, however, is the aim of containing the female body. Drawing on examples of art and artists from the classical period to the 1980s, The Female Nude paints a devastating picture of the depiction of the female body and remains as fresh and invigorating today as it was at the time of its first publication.

Essay in a catalogue for an exhibition that is considered a key survey of how Black art was inspired or affected by the civil rights movement.

For the past thirty years, Hal Foster has pushed the boundaries of cultural criticism, establishing a vantage point from which the seemingly disparate agendas of artists, patrons, and critics have a telling coherence. In The Anti-Aesthetic, preeminent critics such as Jean Baudrillard, Rosalind Krauss, Fredric Jameson, and Edward Said consider the full range of postmodern cultural production, from the writing of John Cage, to Cindy Sherman's film stills, to Barbara Kruger's collages. With a redesigned cover and a new afterword that situates the book in relation to contemporary criticism, The Anti-Aesthetic provides a strong introduction for newcomers and a point of reference for those already engaged in discussions of postmodern art, culture, and criticism. Includes a new afterword by Hal Foster and 12 black and white photographs.