Difference and excess in contemporary art : the visibility of women's practice
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Difference and excess in contemporary art : the visibility of women's practice
Blackwell, 2004
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t.p. verso: First published as Vol. 26, no. 3 of Art History
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This thought-provoking book explores the increasing visibility of women's art in Britain, Europe and America.
Considers the work of American artists Martha Rosler and Kara Walker, Irish artist Alice Maher, British artists Lubaina Himid, Christine Borland, Sarah Lucas, Cornelia Parker, Gillian Wearing and Rachel Whiteread, and the international performance group, moti roti.
Features specially-commissioned interviews with some of these artists.
Covers diverse media, from sculpture and painting through to photography, installations, video and performance.
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors. 1. Introduction: Visibility, Difference and Excess: Gill Perry.
2. 'Out of it': Drunkenness and Ethics in Martha Rosler and Gillian Wearing: David Hopkins.
3. A Strange Alchemy: Cornelia Parker: Interviewed by Lisa Tickner.
4. Antibodies: Rachel Whiteread's Water Tower: Sue Malvern.
5. Hybrid Histories: Alice Maher: Fionna Barber.
6. Reading Black Through White in the Work of Kara Walker: A Discussion Between Michael Corris and Robert Hobbs.
7. Corporeal Theory with in Practice: Christine Borland's Winter Garden: Marsha Meskimmon.
8. Cultural Crossings: Performing Race and Trans-gender in the Work of moti roti: Dorothy Rowe.
9. Lubaina Himid's Plan B: Close-up Magic and Tricky Allusions: Jane Beckett.
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