Generations and Geographies in the Visual Arts: Feminist Readings
In Generations and Geographies, the challenge of contemporary feminist theory encounters the provocation of the visual arts made by women in the twentieth century. The major issue is difference: sexual, cultural and social. Generations points to the singularity of each artist's creative negotiation of time and historical and political circumstance; Geographies calls attention to the significance of place, location and cultural diversity, connecting issues of sexuality to those of nationality,...
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Generations and Geographies collects a unique assembly of artists, curators, critics and researchers to consider the question of sexual difference and its significance in the production and reception of visual representation by women artists.Generations indicates a sense of awareness of the historical and political positioning of women, whereas Geographies calls attention to their location in terms of nationality, imperialism, migration, exile, diaspora and social difference.Drawing on the fullest range of current theoretical perspectives, works by women artists of the twentieth century are examined in terms of themes such as the mother, the body, the land and history/memory. While representing artistic practices in the United States, Canada and Europe through the work of Orlan, Ana Mendieta and Jenny Saville, Generations and Geographies counters the West's artistic hegemony by equally studying women working in non-western contexts. Unique coverage of such artists as Chilean Cecilia Vicuna, Shimada Yoshika from Japan, Jin-me Yoon and Re-Hyun Park from Korea, Bracha Lichtenberg from Israel, and British/Zanibari artist Lubiana Himid provides a long awaited international scope to the study of feminist theory in the visual arts.
List of illustrationsNotes on contributorsPrefaceThe politics of theory: generations and geographies in feminist theory and the histories of art histories3Reading art?25The knotted subject: hysteria, Irma and Cindy Sherman42Gossip as testimony: a postmodern signature58The Venus Pudica: uncovering art history's 'hidden agendas' and pernicious pedigrees69On viewing three paintings by Jenny Saville: rethinking a feminist practice of painting88Orlan Artist in the post-human age of mechanical reincarnation: body as ready (to be re-) made110The anorexic body: contemporary installation art by women artists in Canada135Beach House149Mother figures: the maternal nude in the work of Kathe Kollwitz and Paula Modersohn-Becker159Mother's anger and mother's desire: the work of Re-Hyun Park180Cecilia Vicuna's Ouvrage: knot a not, notes as knots197'Resting' in history: translating the art of Jin-me Yoon217Embodied geographies: subjectivity and materiality in the work of Ana Mendieta228Comfort women: women of conformity: the work of Shimada Yoshiko253Gleaning in history or coming after/behind the reapers: the feminine, the stranger and the matrix in the work and theory of Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger266Index289
