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OverviewCounterpractice highlights a generation of women who used art to define a culture of experimental thought and practice during the period of the French women's movement or Mouvement de Libration des Femmes (197081). It considers women's art in relation to some of the most exciting thinkers to have emerged from the French literature and philosophy of the 1970s Hlne Cixous, Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva forcing a timely reconsideration of the full spectrum of revolutionary practices by women in the years following the events of May '68. Lavishly illustrated with over 200 images, the book also features an illuminating foreword by art historian Griselda Pollock. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rakhee BalaramPublisher: Manchester University Press Imprint: Manchester University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 4.00cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 1.229kg ISBN: 9781526125163ISBN 10: 1526125161 Pages: 480 Publication Date: 08 March 2022 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsForeword by Griselda Pollock Introduction 1 On the streets: from May ’68 to the MLF 2 The MLF 1970s 3 Libération-création: MLF, women artists and the militant body 4 Instase: Psychanalyse et Politique and the spaces of women’s art 5 Women’s groups and collective art practices 6 Hard politics, soft art: subversive practices from écriture féminine to soft art Conclusion: La révolution accomplie? Some legacies of women's art in 1970s France Index -- .Reviews'Counterpractice provides an ambitious survey of the events leading up to May '68 and an invaluable document of the women artists who were working in Paris at that time. Taken together with her careful account of the ground-breaking feminist theory that informed their activism, Rakhee Balaram has made an essential and lasting contribution to the field.' Mary Kelly, Judge Widney Professor, Roski School of Art and Design, University of Southern California -- . Author InformationRakhee Balaram is Assistant Professor of Global Art and Art History at State University of New York-Albany Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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