Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism
Title | Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism PDF eBook |
Author | Lauren Fournier |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 317 |
Release | 2021-02-23 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0262362589 |
Autotheory--the commingling of theory and philosophy with autobiography--as a mode of critical artistic practice indebted to feminist writing and activism. In the 2010s, the term "autotheory" began to trend in literary spheres, where it was used to describe books in which memoir and autobiography fused with theory and philosophy. In this book, Lauren Fournier extends the meaning of the term, applying it to other disciplines and practices. Fournier provides a long-awaited account of autotheory, situating it as a mode of contemporary, post-1960s artistic practice that is indebted to feminist writing, art, and activism. Investigating a series of works by writers and artists including Chris Kraus and Adrian Piper, she considers the politics, aesthetics, and ethics of autotheory.
Lauren Fournier: Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism
Title | Lauren Fournier: Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism PDF eBook |
Author | Leonie Kapfer |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023 |
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AIDS and Representation
Title | AIDS and Representation PDF eBook |
Author | Fiona Johnstone |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2023-05-18 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1350201197 |
AIDS & Representation explores portraits and self-portraits made in response to the AIDS epidemic in America in the 1980s and 1990s. Addressing the work of artists including Mark Morrisroe, Robert Blanchon and Felix Gonzalez-Torres through the interrelated themes of sickness and mortality, desire and sexual identity, love and loss, Fiona Johnstone shows how the self-representational practices of artists with HIV and AIDS offered a richly imaginative response to the limitations of early AIDS imagery. Johnstone argues that the AIDS epidemic changed the very nature of visual representation and artistic practice, necessitating a radical new approach to conceptualising and visualising the human form. An extended epilogue considers the ongoing art historicization of the epidemic, re-contextualising the book's themes in relation to contemporary photographic works. More than just a historical discussion of the art of the AIDS crisis, AIDS and Representation contributes to an emergent body of scholarship on the visual representation of illness. Expanding the established genre of the autopathography or illness narrative beyond the predominantly textual, this important contribution to art history and health humanities sensitively unpicks the entanglements between aesthetic form and the expression of lived experiences of critical and chronic ill health.
Lifework
Title | Lifework PDF eBook |
Author | Moran Sheleg |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 421 |
Release | 2024-07-23 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1526172461 |
Following the critical scepticism surrounding the notion of the ‘self’ as a singular entity during the 1960s, many artists and writers sought to test the apparent problem posed by autobiography as both a traditional genre and as a way of working. Considering the consequent emergence of autotheory, Lifework traces this shift in artistic and literary production during the late twentieth century and beyond, examining a set of diverse practices that mine the line between what it is to make art and what it is to live life. The book’s chapters connect a variety of artistic strategies that cut across medium, geography and time, uncovering how the historical marginalisation of first-person experience has taken on larger social, cultural and political implications in the contemporary moment and how the work of living might still relate to the work of art.
Alternative Iran
Title | Alternative Iran PDF eBook |
Author | Pamela Karimi |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 431 |
Release | 2022-09-27 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1503631818 |
Alternative Iran offers a unique contribution to the field of contemporary art, investigating how Iranian artists engage with space and site amid the pressures of the art market and the state's regulatory regimes. Since the 1980s, political, economic, and intellectual forces have driven Iran's creative class toward increasingly original forms of artmaking not meant for official venues. Instead, these art forms appear in private homes with "trusted" audiences, derelict buildings, leftover urban zones, and remote natural sites. While many of these venues operate independently, others are fully sanctioned by the state. Drawing on interviews with over a hundred artists, gallerists, theater experts, musicians, and designers, Pamela Karimi throws into sharp relief the extraordinary art and performance activities that have received little attention outside Iran. Attending to nonconforming curatorial projects, independent guerrilla installations, escapist practices, and tacitly subversive performances, Karimi discloses the push-and-pull between the art community and the authorities, and discusses myriad instances of tentative coalition as opposed to outright partnership or uncompromising resistance. Illustrated with more than 120 full-color images, this book provides entry into unique artistic experiences without catering to voyeuristic curiosity around Iran's often-perceived "underground" culture.
Theorising the Artist Interview
Title | Theorising the Artist Interview PDF eBook |
Author | Lucia Farinati |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 331 |
Release | 2024-08-29 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1040119476 |
Reflecting on the relationship between artists and their audiences, this book examines how artists have presented themselves publicly through interviews and sought to establish a critical voice for themselves. Considering the interview as a form of cultural production, contributors explore the criteria for determining the artist interview as a distinct field of research in relation to other cultural fields. Structured in four parts, ‘History and Historiography’, ‘Subverting the Biographical Model’, ‘Interviews as Practice’ and ‘Materiality and Technology’, the book takes an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses the fields of art history, fine art, oral history, curating, media studies and museum conservation. By theorising the artist interview as a form of cultural production and embracing it as a co-constructed critical practice, this volume aims to show and encourage an approach to art history which dismantles old hierarchies in favour of valuing dialogue and collaboration. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, museum studies, oral history and historiography.
M/E/A/N/I/N/G
Title | M/E/A/N/I/N/G PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Bee |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 502 |
Release | 2000-12-27 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780822325666 |
DIVA collection of writings from the influential feminist art journal M/E/A/N/I/N/G, with a forward by Johanna Drucker./div