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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787218103321

Autore

Wilson Siona <1970->

Titolo

Art labor, sex politics : feminist effects in 1970s British art and performance / / Siona Wilson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minnesota ; ; London, England : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4529-4301-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Disciplina

704/.042094109047

Soggetti

Sex differences in art

Sex role in art

Women and the arts - Great Britain - History - 20th century

Arts and society - Great Britain - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Introduction: Sex Politics; 1 Nightcleaners: The Ambiguities of Activism and the Limits of Production; 2 The Spectator as Reproducer: Mary Kelly's Early Films; 3 Prostitution and the Problem of Feminist Art: The Emergent Queer Aesthetic of COUM Transmissions; 4 Revolting Photographs: Proletarian Amateurism in Jo Spence and Terry Dennett's Photography Workshop; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Contrary to critics who have called it the "undecade," the 1970's were a time of risky, innovative art-and nowhere more so than in Britain, where the forces of feminism and labor politics merged in a radical new aesthetic. In Art Labor, Sex Politics Siona Wilson investigates the charged relationship of sex and labor politics as it played out in the making of feminist art in 1970's Britain. Her sustained exploration of works of experimental film, installation, performance, and photography maps the intersection of feminist and leftist projects in the artistic practices of this heady period. Collect...