Wack!

by Mark, Lisa Gabrielle

• ISBN13: 9780914357995
• ISBN10: 0914357999
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-04-02
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

There had never been art like the art produced by women artists in the 1970s-and there has never been a book with the ambition and scope of this one about that groundbreaking era. WACK!documents and illustrates the impact of the feminist revolution on art made between 1965 and 1980, featuring pioneering and influential works by artists who came of age during that period-Chantal Akerman, Lynda Benglis, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Valie Export, Mary Heilmann, Sanja Ivekovic, Ana Mendieta, Annette Messager, and others-as well as important works made in those years by artists whose whose careers were already well established, including Louise Bourgeois, Judy Chicago, Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, Lucy Lippard, Alice Neel, and Yoko Ono. The art surveyed in WACK!includes work by more than 120 artists, in all media-from painting and sculpture to photography, film, installation, and video-arranged not by chronology but by theme: Abstraction, "Autophotography," Body as Medium, Family Stories, Gender Performance, Knowledge as Power, Making Art History, and others. WACK!,which accompanies the first international museum exhibition to showcase feminist art from this revolutionary era, contains more than 400 color images. Highlights include the figurative paintings of Joan Semmel; the performance and film collaborations of Sally Potter and Rose English; the untitled film stills of Cindy Sherman; and the large-scale, craft-based sculptures of Magdalena Abakanowicz. Written entries on each artist offer key biographical and descriptive information and accompanying essays by leading critics, art historians, and scholars offer new perspectives on feminist art practice. The topics-including the relationship between American and European feminism, feminism and New York abstraction, and mapping a global feminism-provide a broad social context for the artworks themselves. WACK!is both a definitive visual record and a long-awaited history of one of the most important artistic movements of the twentieth century. Essays by: Cornelia Butler, Judith Russi Kirshner, Catherine Lord, Marsha Meskimmon, Richard Meyer, Helen Molesworth, Peggy Phelan, Nelly Richard, Valerie Smith, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Jenni Sorkin Artists include: Marina Abramovic, Chantal Akerman, Lynda Benglis, Dara Birnbaum, Louise Bourgeois, Judy Chicago, Lygia Clark, Jay DeFeo, Mary Beth Edelson, Valie Export, Barbara Hammer, Susan Hiller, Joan Jonas, Mary Kelly, Maria Lassnig, Linda Montano, Alice Neel, Senga Nengudi, Lorraine O'Grady, Pauline Oliveros, Yoko Ono, Orlan, Howardena Pindell, Yvonne Rainer, Faith Ringgold, Ketty La Rocca, Ulrike Rosenbach, Martha Rosler, Betye Saar, Miriam Schapiro, Carolee Schneemann, Cindy Sherman, and Hannah Wilke.

Table of Contents

Director's Foreword	p. 7
Acknowledgments	p. 10
Art and Feminism: An Ideology of Shifting Criteria	p. 14
Plates	p. 26
Artist Biographies	p. 209
Chronology Through Cartography: Mapping 1970s Feminist Art Globally	p. 322
The Woman Who Never was: Self-Representation, Photography, and First-Wave Feminist Art	p. 336
The Returns of Touch: Feminist Performances, 1960-80	p. 346
Hard Targets: Male Bodies, Feminism Art, and the Force of Censorship in the 1970s	p. 362
Voices and Images of Italian Feminism	p. 384
Abundant Evidence: Black Women Artists of the 1960s and 70s	p. 400
Fugitive Identities and Dissenting Code-Systems: Women Artists During the Military Dictatorship in Chile	p. 414
Painting with Ambivalence	p. 428
Their Memory is Playing Tricks on Her: Notes Toward a Calligraphy of Rage	p. 440
The Feminist Nomad: The All-Women Group Show	p. 458
Selected Chronology of All-Women Group Exhibitions, 1943-83	p. 473
Checklist of the Exhibition	p. 500
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