Women making art : history, subjectivity, aesthetics / / Marsha Meskimmon

• Autore: Meskimmon Marsha
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Disciplina: 704.042
• Soggetto topico: Women artists; Feminism and art
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Women Making Art History, Subjectivity, Aesthetics; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: women making art; Exhilaration and danger; The work of art; New epistemes; Part I History; Introduction; 1 Exiled histories: Holocaust and Heimat; Home, covenant and the profundity of the everyday; High culture, assimilation and modernity; 2 Corporeal cartography: women artists of the anglophone African disapora; Dancers, mothers and modernity; Dancing: place and ethnography; 3 Re-inscribing histories: Viet Nam and representation ; Mass media, documentary and reportageNation, difference and bodies politic; Part II Subjectivity; Introduction; 4 Embodiment: space and situated knowledge; Embodying the woman artist; Embodied vision: situation(ism), the library and the studio; Skin, borderlands and mestiza knowledge; 5 Performativity: desire and the inscribed body; From the performed to the materialised; Inside/outside; Erotic surfaces; 6 Becoming: individuals, collectives and wondrous machines; Flower painters and feminist figurations; Figuring the body in the virtual machine; Transindividuality and the loop of becoming ; Part III AestheticsIntroduction; 7 Pleasure and knowledge: 'Orientalism' and filmic vision; Aesthetics: pleasure and the voice; Aesthetics: pleasure and the embodied eye; Aesthetics: pleasure and 'inter' space of corporeal theory; 8 The word and the flesh: text/image re-made; Reading matter; The book in the expanded field; 9 The place of time: Australian feminist art and theory; A glance at (ec)centric histories; Hesitation, elaboration and the emergent subject; Afterword - on Wonder; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Women have been making art for centuries, yet their work has been seen as secondary or has gone unrecognized altogether. Women Making Art asks why this is so, and what it would take for us to realize the extent of women's extraordinary contribution to the arts. Marsha Meskimmon mobilizes contemporary feminist thinking to reconsider how and why women have made art. She examines work by a wide range of women artists from different cultures and historical periods, including Rebecca Horn, Rachel Whiteread, Shirin Neshat and Maya Lin, emphasizing the diversity of women's art and
• Titolo autorizzato: Women making art
• ISBN: 1-135-13088-4; 0-203-38946-8; 1-283-84649-7; 1-135-13081-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786305503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II