Difference and excess in contemporary art : the visibility of women's practice / edited by Gill Perry.
This thought-provoking book explores the increasing visibility of womens art in Britain, Europe and America. Written by a group of prestigious art historians and critics, it locates contemporary womens art within a matrix of overlapping historical, cultural and post-colonial frameworks.Artists whose work is considered include Martha Rosler and Kara Walker from North America, Alice Maher from the Republic of Ireland, Lubaina Himid, Christine Borland, Sarah Lucas, Cornelia Parker, Gillian Wearing and Rachel Whiteread from Britain, and the international performance group, moti roti. The book also features specially-commissioned interviews with s...
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| Other authors: |
Perry, Gilliam. |
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978-1-4051-1202-4
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English
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Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2004.
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Publicado por primera vez como Volumen 26, número 3 de "Art History"
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173931 |
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Book
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183 p. : fot. bl. y n. ; 25 cm
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Introduction : visibility, difference and excess / Gill Perry -- 'Out of it ': drunkenness and ethics in Martha Rosler and Gillian Wearing / David Hopkins -- A strange alchemy : Cornelia Parker / interviewed by Lisa Tickner -- Antibodies : Rachel Whiteread's 'Water Tower' / Sue Malvern -- Hybrid Histories : Alice Maher / interviewed by Fionna Barber -- Reading black through white in the work of Kara Walker / a discussion between Michael Corris and Robert Hobbs -- Corporeal theory with/in practice : Christine Borland's 'Winter Garden' / Marsha Meskimmon -- Cultural crossings : performing race and trans-gender in the work of moti roti / Dorothy Rowe -- Lubaina Himid's 'Plan B' : Close up magic and tricky allusions / Jane Beckett
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