Post-Partum Document

Mary Kelly

University of California Press, 1999 - Art - 218 pages

Conceived as an installation in six consecutive sections, Mary Kelly's Post-Partum Document has been widely exhibited and intensely debated since its first scandalous appearance in the 1970s. Now, more than twenty years later, the Document's initial challenge to conceptual art and its impact on the emerging discourse of sexual difference have taken on a new significance. For many younger artists and critics, the republication of Kelly's artwork in book form will provide the opportunity to engage directly with the visual and intertextual strategies that spawned a generation of "thinking bad girls."

Contents

• Introduction Folded Vests 1973: 3
• Analyzed Utterances and Related Speech Events 1975 4769: 23
• Analyzed Fecal Stains and Feeding Charts: 40
• Analyzed Markings and Diaryperspective Schema: 77
• Analyzed Markings and Diaryperspective Schema 1975 7988: 79
• Transitional Objects Diary and Diagram: 97
• Classified Specimens Proportional Diagrams: 113
• Experimentum Mentis V On the Order of Things: 160
• Prewriting Alphabet Exergue and Diary 1978 17084: 165
• References: 196

About the author

Mary Kelly is Professor and Chair of the Department of Art at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her project-based artwork, Post-Partum Document (1973-79), Interim (1984-89) and Gloria Patri (1992) is represented in such public collections as London's Tate Gallery, the Zurich Museum, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Australian National Gallery, the Helsinki City Art Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She is author of Imaging Desire (1996) and her writing is included in the monograph Mary Kelly (1997).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Post-Partum Document
• Author: Mary Kelly
• Illustrated by: Mary Kelly
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: University of California Press, 1999
• ISBN: 0520219414, 9780520219410
• Length: 218 pages
• Subjects: Art / General; Art / History / General; Art / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945); Art / Individual Artists / General; Philosophy / General; Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory; Social Science / Gender Studies; Social Science / Women's Studies