Research Catalog

Title

Pain and politics in postwar feminist art : activism in the work of Nancy Spero / Rachel Warriner.

Author

Warriner, Rachel

Publication

• London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023.
• ©2023

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Details

Description

xii, 240 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 22 cm

Summary

"Between 1966 and 1976, American artist Nancy Spero completed some of her most aggressively political work. Made at a time when Spero was a key member of the anti-war and feminist arts-activism that burgeoned in the New York art world during the period, her works demonstrate a violent and bodily rejection of injustice. Considering the ways in which anti-war and feminist art used emotion as a means to persuade and protest, Pain and Politics in Postwar Feminist Art examines the history of this crucial decade in American art politics through close attention to Spero's practice. Situating her work amongst the activism that defined the era, this book examines the ways in which sensation and emotion became political weapons for a generation of artists seeking to oppose patriarchy and war. Exemplary of the way in which artists were using metaphors of sensation and emotion in their work as part of the anti-Vietnam war and feminist art movements in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Spero's practice acts as a model for representing how politics feels. By exploring Spero's political engagement anew, this book offer a profound recontextualization of the important contribution that Spero made to Feminist thought, politics and art in the US."--

Subject

• Spero, Nancy, 1926-2009 > Criticism and interpretation
• Spero, Nancy, 1926-2009
• Feminism in art
• Pain in art
• Politics in art
• Feminism
• Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-235) and index.

Contents

Introduction. Pain and its politics ; Pain's metaphor and metonymy ; Chapter outline -- Personal and political : pain and emotion 966-1976. Anti-war anger and feminist hurt ; Pain 1966-76 -- The suffering of war and the pain of alienation. 'Fantasy the Beast, and Herman Kahn' : metaphors and metonymy of war ; From symbols of war to the fractured symbolic -- Codex Artaud : hysteria and silence. Picturing silence ; Hysteria and the politics of pain ; The American Woman Artist Show, GEDOK and the Amerika Haus -- Torture of Woman as devotional object. Unreliable witness ; Torture and information in the 1970s : feeling the pain of others ; Affective mediation and beholding : medieval modes for feminism -- Conclusion

Call Number

JQE 24-129

ISBN

• 9781788312608
• 1788312600
• 9781786735997 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781786725950 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

1285686709

Author

Warriner, Rachel, author.

Title

Pain and politics in postwar feminist art : activism in the work of Nancy Spero / Rachel Warriner.

Publisher

London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023.

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-235) and index.

Research Call Number

JQE 24-129