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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817200903321

Autore

Schor Mira

Titolo

A decade of negative thinking : essays on art, politics, and daily life / / Mira Schor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2009

ISBN

1-283-03609-6

9786613036094

0-8223-9141-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (338 p.)

Collana

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Disciplina

701/.03

701.03

Soggetti

Feminism and art - United States

Art, American - 21st century

United States Politics and government 21st century

United States Social conditions 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based on print version record

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The ism that dare not speak its name -- Anonymity as a political tactic : art blogs, feminism, writing, and politics -- Generation 2.5 -- Email to a young woman artist -- The womanhouse films -- Miss Elizabeth Bennett goes to feminist boot camp -- Some notes on women and abstraction and a curious case history : Alice Neel as a great abstract painter -- Like a veneer -- Modest painting -- Blurring Richter -- Weather conditions in lower Manhattan, September 11, 2001, to October 2, 2001 -- Trite tropes, cliches, or the persistence of styles -- Recipe art -- Work and play -- New tales of Scheherazade.

Sommario/riassunto

Writings on the changing relationship between feminism and art production and criticism, and the impact of intergenerational struggle in the contemporary art world.