1st Edition

Artist-Parents in Contemporary Art Gender, Identity, and Domesticity

By Barbara Kutis Copyright 2020
208 Pages 19 Color & 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 19 Color & 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 19 Color & 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines the increasing intersections of art and parenting from the late 1990s to the early 2010s, when constructions of masculine and feminine identities, as well as the structure of the family, underwent radical change. Barbara Kutis asserts that the championing of the simultaneous linkage of art and parenting by contemporary artists reflects a conscientious self-fashioning of a new... Read more

1. The Artist-Parent Identity; 2. A History of Artistic Engagement with Parenting; 3. Superwoman, Supermother, or Polish Mother? Elżbieta Jabłońska’s Artistic Negotiation of Motherhood; 4. Guy Ben-Ner: Articulating the Artist-Father; 5. Mothers and Fathers: A Collective Artist-Parent Identity; 6. The Future of Artist-Parents in Contemporary Art

Biography

Barbara Kutis is Assistant Professor at Indiana University Southeast, USA.