Feminism and Contemporary Art: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Laughter

by Isaak,Jo Anna

• ISBN13: 9780415080149
• ISBN10: 0415080142
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-08-22
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Feminism and Contemporary Artdiscusses the work of individual women artists within the context of the wider social, physical and political world. Jo Anna Isaak looks at the work of a diverse range of artists from the United States, the former Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and Canada. She discusses the work of such women as Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman, Nancy Spero, Elaine Reichek, Jeanne Silverthorne, Mary Kelly, Lorna Simpson and the Guerrilla Girls, and examines a range of work by twentieth-century Soviet women artists. Isaak argues that contemporary art under the influence of feminism provides the momentum for a comic critique of key assumptions about art, art history, and the role of the artist.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
The Revolutionary Power of Women's Laughter	p. 11
Art History and Its (dis)contents	p. 47
Reflections of Resistance: Women Artists on the Other Side of the Mir	p. 77
Mothers of Invention	p. 139
Mapping the Imaginary	p. 156
Encore	p. 182
Notes	p. 226
Bibliography	p. 229
Index	p. 236
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