Transnational Perspectives on Feminism and Art, 1960-1985 (Routledge Research in Gender and Art)

__Transnational Perspecives on Feminism and Art, 1960–1985__ is a collection of essential essays that bring transnational feminist praxis into conversation with histories of feminist art in the 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s. The artistic practices and processes examined within these pages all centre on gender and sexual politics as they variously intersect with race, class, sovereignty, Indigeneity, citizenship, and migration at particular historical moments and within specific geopolitical contexts. The book’s central premise is that reconsidering this period from transnational feminist perspectives will enable new thinking about the critical commonalities and differences across heterogeneous and geographically dispersed practices that have contributed to the complex and multifaceted relationship between feminism and art today. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, cultural studies, visual culture, material culture, and gender studies. Transnational Perspecives on Feminism and Art, 1960-1985 is a collection of essential essays that bring transnational feminist praxis into conversations with histories of feminist art in the 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Series Page 3 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Contents 6 List of figures 8 List of contributors 12 Acknowledgements 17 Introduction: Locating and Dislocating Feminisms 20 PART 1: Constructing 44 1. Reviewing a 1960s Mi’kmaq Ribbon Skirt: Reclamation, Resilience, and Resistance 46 2. Winding Up to Be Unfurled: Art History as Casa Espiral 60 3. Insubordinate Bodies: Staging Protest and Torture in Regina Vater’s 1973 Nós Performance 76 4. Nil Yalter’s Topak Ev: The Nomadic Tent Between “Worlds” 91 PART 2: Mediating 106 5. Creation Stories: Australian Arts Feminism 108 6. Tseng Kwong Chi: 1979 and the Liminal Trans of Racial and Sexual Politics 125 7. Shades of Discrimination: The Emergence of Feminist Art in Apartheid South Africa 141 PART 3: Performing 156 8. Against the Body: Interpreting Ana Mendieta 158 9. Jung Kang-Ja: A Pioneer of Korean Experimental Art of the 1960s and 1970s 173 10. “Really African, and Really Kabuki Too”: Afro-Asian Possibility in the Work of Senga Nengudi 188 11. Kirsten Justesen: The Body as a Feminist and Artistic Tool 204 Bibliography 220 Index 236 visual,culture;,material,culture;,art,history;,gender;,feminism;,1960s;,1970s;,1980s;,contemporary,art;,politics;,second,wave;,global;,globalization;,imperialism;,indigenous;,migration;,colonialism;,transnational visual culture,material culture,art history,gender,feminism,1960s,1970s,1980s,contemporary art,politics,second wave,global,globalization,imperialism,indigenous,migration,colonialism,transnational "Transnational Perspecives on Feminism and Art, 1960-1985 is a collection of essential essays that bring transnational feminist praxis into conversations with histories of feminist art in the 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s. The artistic practices and processes examined within these pages all center on gender and sexual politics as they variously intersect with race, class, sovereignty, Indigeneity, citizenship, and migration at particular historical moments and within specific geopolitical contexts. The book's central premise is that reconsidering this period from transnational feminist perspectives will enable new thinking about the critical commonalities and differences across heterogenous and geographically dispersed practices that have contributed to the complex and multifaceted relationship between feminism and art today. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, cultural studies, visual culture, material culture, and gender studies"-- Provided by publisher