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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782849203321

Autore

Liss Andrea

Titolo

Feminist art and the maternal / / Andrea Liss

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

0-8166-6627-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxi, 176 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

704.042

759.4

Soggetti

Arts, Modern - 20th century

Feminism and art

Motherhood in art

Women artists

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-169) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Breaching the taboo -- Intersubjectivities: Mary Kelly's post-partum document -- Maternal care: Mierle Laderman Ukeles's maintenance art -- Mamas out of place -- Making the maternal visible: Rene Cox's family portraits -- Loving in difference: Ngozi Onwurah's mother-daughter reflections -- Interlude: cultural and maternal notes on living through breast cancer -- Maternal mourning: a collaboration between Civia Rosenberg and May Stevens.

Sommario/riassunto

Feminist motherhood is a surprisingly unexplored subject. In fact, feminism and motherhood have been often thought of as incompatible. Profound, provocative, and innovative, Feminist Art and the Maternal is the first work to critically examine the dilemmas and promises of representing feminist motherhood in contemporary art and visual culture. Andrea Liss skillfully incorporates theory with passionate personal reflections on the maternal, and in doing so she advances a fresh and necessary perspective on both feminism and art. Offering new research on works by well-known and emerging artists wh