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Feminist Perspectives on Art

Contemporary Outtakes

Jacqueline Millner editor Catriona Moore editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:14th Feb '18

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When the body is foregrounded in artwork – as in much contemporary performance, sculptural installation and video work – so is gendered and sexualised difference. Feminist Perspectives on Art: Contemporary Outtakes looks to interactions between art history, theory, curation, and studio-based practices to theorise the phenomenological import of this embodied gender difference in contemporary art.

The 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 theory–practice 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 ‘how the body feels’, how the land has creative agency in Indigenous art, and how the use of emotional or affective registers may form one’s curatorial method.

This anthology represents a significant contribution to a broader resurgence of feminist thought, methodology, and action in contemporary art, particularly in creative practice research. It will be of particular value to students and researchers in art history, visual culture, cultural studies, and gender studies, in addition to museum and gallery professionals specialising in contemporary art.

"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


"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."-- Elizabeth Ann Macgregor OBE, Director, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia

"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."-- Laura Lamurri, Critique d'art

ISBN: 9781138061811

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 460g

196 pages