WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution [Vinyl Bound]

Cornelia Butler (Editor), Lisa Gabrielle Mark (Editor)

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ISBN-10: 0914357999 | ISBN-13: 978-0914357995 | Publication Date: March 2, 2007

Art and Feminism, by Cornelia ButlerPlatesArtist BiographiesChronology through Cartography, by Marsha MeskimmonThe Woman Who Never Was, by Abigail Solomon-GodeauThe Returns of Touch, by Peggy PhelanHard Targets, by Richard MeyerVoices and Images of Italian Feminism, by Judith Russi KirshnerAbundant Evidence, by Valerie SmithFugitive Identities and Dissenting Code-Systems, by Nelly RichardPainting with Ambivalence, by Helen MolesworthTheir Memory Is Playing Tricks on Her, by Catherine LordThe Feminist Hand, by Jenni SorkinSelected Chronology of All-Women Group Exhibitions, 1943--83Checklist of the Exhibition

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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 Ivekovič, 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 SorkinArtists include:Marina Abramovič, 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.

About the Author

Ernest J. Wilson III is Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication and holds the Walter H. Annenberg Chair in Communication at the University of Southern California. He is also a senior fellow at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy and an adjunct fellow at the Pacific Council on International Policy.

"This is a cultural excavation project: Much of the work here hasn't been seen in decades. But it's also an argument for the revision of recent art history." Robert L. Pincus San Diego Union-Tribute

Richard Meyer is associate professor in the Department of Art History atthe University of Southern California, where he teaches courses onmodern art and the history of photography. He is the author ofOutlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-CenturyAmerican Art (Oxford, 2002) and the editor of Representing the Passions:Histories, Bodies, Visions (Getty Center, 2003).

Product Details

• Vinyl Bound: 512 pages
• Publisher: The MIT Press (March 2, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0914357999
• ISBN-13: 978-0914357995
• Product Dimensions: 10.4 x 9.2 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Borderline politically incorrect, August 5, 2010

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Lovingly politically correct for feminists, borderline politically incorrect for patriarchs. Fun choices were made, sensitive text written. Fabulous.