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Renegotiating the Body: Feminist Art in 1970s London
Kathy Battista
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Description for Renegotiating the Body: Feminist Art in 1970s London
Paperback. Primarily concerned with the feminist body as site for making and exhibiting works, this book examines themes that look at the body as material, the body and performance, as well as the alternative creative platforms in 1970s feminist art. Num Pages: 224 pages, 50 integrated b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JJPL; ACXJ; JFFK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 362.
What makes art 'feminist art'? Although feminist artists do have a unique aesthetic, there can be no essential feminist aesthetic, argues Kathy Battista in this exciting new art history. Domesticity, the body, its traces and sexuality have become prominent themes in contemporary feminist practice but where did these preoccupations begin and how did they come to signify a particular type of art? Kathy Battista's (re-)engagement with the founding generation of female practitioners centres on 1970s London as the cultural hub from which a new art practice arose. Emphasising the importance of artists including Bobby Baker, Anne Bean, Catherine Elwes, Rose ... Read more
What makes art 'feminist art'? Although feminist artists do have a unique aesthetic, there can be no essential feminist aesthetic, argues Kathy Battista in this exciting new art history. Domesticity, the body, its traces and sexuality have become prominent themes in contemporary feminist practice but where did these preoccupations begin and how did they come to signify a particular type of art? Kathy Battista's (re-)engagement with the founding generation of female practitioners centres on 1970s London as the cultural hub from which a new art practice arose. Emphasising the importance of artists including Bobby Baker, Anne Bean, Catherine Elwes, Rose ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848859616
SKU
V9781848859616
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About Kathy Battista
Kathy Battista is Director, Contemporary Art at Sotheby's Institute of Art, New York, and Senior Research Fellow, Winchester Centre for Global Futures in Art Design and Media at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. She is a regular contributor to Art Monthly and Brooklyn Rail.
Reviews for Renegotiating the Body: Feminist Art in 1970s London
'Kathy Battista's book does much more than its title suggests. It is an assiduous study of the founding generation of feminist artists in Britain. The book is timely both because so much of this emergent feminist movement was ephemeral in its day, and were it not for Battista's careful excavation it would be in jeopardy of extinction, and because only ... Read more