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Feminist art and the maternal / / Andrea Liss



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Autore: Liss Andrea Visualizza persona
Titolo: Feminist art and the maternal / / Andrea Liss Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2009
©2009
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxi, 176 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina: 704.042
759.4
Soggetto topico: Arts, Modern - 20th century
Feminism and art
Motherhood in art
Women artists
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
Titolo autorizzato: Feminist art and the maternal  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8166-6627-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910782849203321
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