240 Pages
39 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
39 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Women have been making art for centuries, yet their work has been seen as secondary or has gone unrecognised altogether. Women Making Art asks why this is so, and what it would take for us to realise the extent of women's extraordinary contribution to the arts. Marsha Meskimmon mobilises contemporary feminist thinking to reconsider how and why women have made art. She examines work by a wide... Read more
Section 1 - History: Introduction 1. Exiled Histories: Holocaust and Heimat 2. Corporeal Cartographies: Anglophone Women of the African Diaspora 3. Re-inscribing Histories: Viet Nam and Representation Section 2 - Subjectivity: Introduction 4. Embodiment: Space and Situated Knowledge 5. Performativity: Desire and the Inscribed Body 6. Becoming: Science, Art and Wondrous Machines Section 3- Aesthetics: Introduction 7. Pleasure and Knowledge: 'Orientalism' and Filmic Vision 8. The Word and the Flesh: Text/Image Remade 9. The Place of Time: Australian Feminist Art and Theory Afterword
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Meskimmon, Marsha
