Nancy Spero: A Continuous Present [Hardcover]

Susanne Altmann (Author), Deborah Frizell (Author), Dirk Luckow (Editor), Nancy Spero (Author)

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Publication Date: July 2, 2003

As early as the 1960s, Nancy Spero's work was breaking ranks with the establishment. Her unique pictorial vocabulary and insistent political engagement was a far cry--and a loud cry--from the styles of abstraction that dominated the American art world at that time. She articulated and has continued to drive at themes of burning interest to her: protest against the Vietnam War, the alienation of society and violence against women, for example against Jewish woman under National Socialism and in the historical contexts of witch hunts. A Continuous Present pairs her War Series (1966-70), a cycle of anti-Vietnam War gouaches, with an overview of her work from the last decade. Between 1992 and 2001, Spero created infinite-seeming works on long horizontal and vertical bands of paper--a format borrowed from Egyptian papyrus rolls, Chinese scroll painting and antique friezes--populating them with female figures taken from mythology, various epochs and diverse cultures, giving them feminist momentum via highly charged or parodistic confrontations.

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Product Details

Hardcover: 108 pages
Publisher: Richter Verlag (July 2, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3933807816
ISBN-13: 978-3933807816
Product Dimensions: 12.2 x 7.9 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,321,068 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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