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Iconic Works of Art by Feminists and Gender Activists: Mistress-Pieces book cover

1st Edition

Iconic Works of Art by Feminists and Gender Activists Mistress-Pieces

Edited By Brenda Schmahmann Copyright 2021
278 Pages 15 Color & 47 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

278 Pages 15 Color & 47 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

278 Pages 15 Color & 47 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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In this book, contributors identify and explore a range of iconic works – "Mistress-Pieces" – that have been made by feminists and gender activists since the 1970s. The first volume for which the defining of iconic feminist art is the raison d’être, its contributors interpret a "Mistress-Piece" as a work that has proved influential in a particular context because of its distinctiveness and... Read more

Introduction

Brenda Schmahmann

Part I: Reconfiguring Domestic Life 

1. The Aesthetic Labour of Protest, Now and Then: The Women’s Peace Camp at Greenham Common (1981-2000)

Alexandra Kokoli

2. "Middle fingers up, put them hands high": Rethinking Tracey Moffatt’s Scarred for Life (1994)

Jacqueline Millner and Catriona Moore

3. Bodies, Borders, and Law: Tanja Ostojić’s Looking for a Husband with EU Passport (2000-05)

Hilary Robinson

4. Household Matters: Usha Seejarim’s Venus at Home (2012) and the Politics of Women’s Work

Brenda Schmahmann

Part II: Critiquing Gender Violence and Abuse 

5. Hannah Wilke’s S.O.S. Starification Object Series (1974-82) in the Era of #MeToo

Marissa Vigneault

6. Private Trauma, Public Healing: Hannan Abu Hussein’s The Vagina Series (begun 2002)

Tal Dekel

7. Transgressive Martyrs in Diane Victor’s Wise and Foolish Virgins (2008)

Karen von Veh

8. Swoon’s Medea (2017) as a Feminist Intervention: Re-producing the Maternal

Paula J. Birnbaum

Part III: Great Goddess Iconographies

9. Ana Mendieta’s Silueta Series (1973-80): In and Out of Feminism

Sherry Buckberrough

10. Clara Menéres’ Woman-Earth-Life (1977) and the Politics of Censorship, Concealment and Vandalism

Laura Castro

11. The Female Body and Spirituality in Ilse Fusková’s El Zapallo (1982) Series

María Laura Rosa

Part IV: Body Politics 

12. Who is Afraid of Natalia LL? Consumer Art (1972-75) and the Pleasures and Dangers of Feminist Art in Communist Poland

Joanna Inglot

13. An Icon for the Aged: Alice Neel’s Self-Portrait (1980)

Pamela Allara

14. Phaptawan Suwannakudt’s Akojorn (1995): Connecting Women

Yvonne Low

15. Into the grave and back: Psychosomatic passage through grief in Lindi Arbi’s Unearthed　(2009)

Irene Bronner

Biography

Brenda Schmahmann is Professor and the SARChI Chair in South African Art and Visual Culture at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

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