Re-Evaluations in Feminism and Contemporary Art: Volume 1It could be said all new research contains a "re-evaluation" of past work but these two volumes attempt a re-evaluation of feminist research in contemporary art as it has developed over the last 50 years in relation to different local/global dynamics and/or about certain artists, artworks or exhibitions. Feminism(s) aim was to interrogate existing histories and provide significant corrections to what constitutes "history". The two volumes explore some of the ways feminism(s)' challenges have changed museums' curatorial practices, critical writing and art history and how feminism itself has been transformed over time and its presence in many locations. Feminism's absence from the stories told today about the recent past and present of contemporary art represents a starting point for these essays to explore the different strategies that have been attempted in cultural and political terms and to offer fresh assessments. Their re-evaluation of artists, artworks and exhibitions goes beyond questions of reputation or recognition, to embrace questions about identifying issues in feminist research, engaging in collective work and re-examining the personal in relation to politics/aesthetics. These volumes include different voices and perspectives on feminism and contemporary art from many parts of the world by academics, critics, artists, curators and researchers. Volume 1 has three sections that each address local and transnational issues in interpretations of feminism and amongst exhibiting artists through considering local/global dynamics and/or national frameworks (section 1); feminist cultural politics within exhibitions and writing exhibition histories (section 2) and within histories of conflicts in different local/national situations (section 3). The writers come from North Macedonia, UK, Iran, USA, China, Poland, Austria, The Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Ukraine, Latin America and Latvia - and their work engages work undertaken in Japan, Thailand, France, Vietnam, Mexico, Argentina and Brazil. |
Contents
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Feminisms Contemporary Art and WorldSystems Theories | 21 |
A Field of Anotherness | 43 |
Chapter 4 | 59 |
Chapter 5 | 75 |
Historicizing | 95 |
Chapter 7 | 117 |
Chapter 15 | 130 |
Chapter 10 | 171 |
The Separatist Issue in the 1980s Italian Art System | 187 |
Chapter 12 | 203 |
Chapter 13 | 227 |
Chapter 14 | 251 |
Its Your Fault Feminist Art Foodwork and the Postsocialist | 263 |
Feminist | 285 |
Chapter 17 | 307 |
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