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Unspeakable acts : women, art, and sexual violence in the 1970s
- Title
- Unspeakable acts : women, art, and sexual violence in the 1970s / Nancy Princenthal.
- Author
- Princenthal, Nancy
- Publication
- New York, New York ; London : Thames and Hudson, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- 288 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
- Summary
- "The 1970s was a time of deep division and newfound freedoms. Galvanized by 'The Second Sex' and 'The Feminine Mystique', the civil rights movement and the March on Washington, a new generation put their bodies on the line to protest injustice. Still, even in the heart of certain resistance movements, sexual violence against women had reached epidemic levels. Initially, it went largely unacknowledged. But some bold women artists and activists, including Yoko Ono, Ana Mendieta, Marina Abramovic, Adrian Piper, Suzanne Lacy, Nancy Spero and Jenny Holzer, fired up by women's experiences and the climate of revolution, started a conversation about sexual violence that continues today. Some worked unannounced and unheralded, using the street as their theater. Others managed to draw support from the highest levels of municipal power. Along the way, they changed the course of art, pioneering a form that came to be called simply performance. Award-winning author Nancy Princenthal takes on these enduring issues and weaves together a new history of performance, challenging us to re-examine the relationship between art and activism, and how we can apply the lessons of that turbulent era to today." --
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-275) and index.
- Contents
- Body language -- Looking for trouble -- Testifying -- Taking action -- Identity crises -- Graphic content -- The canon -- Since the seventies -- Conclusion.
- Call Number
- JQE 21-190
- ISBN
- 9780500023051
- 0500023050
- LCCN
- 2019934255
- OCLC
- 1112383104
- Author
- Princenthal, Nancy, author. Author
- Title
- Unspeakable acts : women, art, and sexual violence in the 1970s / Nancy Princenthal.
- Publisher
- New York, New York ; London : Thames and Hudson, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-275) and index.
- Local Note
- AUTH: SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS. HOW FEMALE ARTISTS MADE WOMEN'S EXPERIENCES VISIBLE. 17 PAGES OF ILLS.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- JQE 21-190