Research Catalog

Title

Feminisms and contemporary art in Indonesia : defining experiences / Wulan Dirgantoro.

Author

Dirgantoro, Wulan

Publication

• Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]
• ©2017

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Details

Description

227 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

While Indonesian contemporary art is currently on the rise on the international art scene, there hasn't yet been an in-depth study of the works of Indonesian women artists and the feminist strategies they employ within the art world. This book fills that gap, presenting the first comprehensive study of feminisms and contemporary art in Indonesia; using feminist readings to analyse the works of Indonesian women artists historically and today; illuminating the sociocultural contexts in which they have worked; and offering a nuanced understanding of local feminisms in the nation.

Series Statement

Asian visual cultures ; 2

Uniform Title

Asian visual cultures ; 2.

Subjects

• Art, Indonesian
• Feminism and art

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Defining Experiences -- "Intimate Distance" as background -- Unnatural partnership: Women, political activism and feminism/s in Indonesia -- The female body, art and censorship in Indonesia -- Definitions and distinctions: Feminisms or gender? -- Methodology -- Selection of artists -- Book structure -- Firing the Canon: Indonesian Art Canons as Myth and Masculine Ideal -- Postcolonial masculinity, canon making and Indonesian modern art -- Truth and beauty: The early years of modern art in Indonesia -- "Representing Indonesian modernity" as canon-making -- Gerakan Seni Rupa Baru -- The legacies of GSRB -- Gender and avant-gardism in GSRB -- Ken Dedes and the gaze -- Concluding remarks -- Haunting in the Archipelago: Emiria Sunassa / Mia Bustam -- The dark archipelago: The narratives of Emiria Sunassa -- Reading the primitive -- Tracing the feminine: Emiria's nudes and native landscape -- The primitive and the feminine: Nationalism's internal others -- Painting ghosts: The narratives of Mia Bustam -- Sudjojono dan Aku: Becoming an artist -- Dart Kamp ke Kamp: Arts and politics -- Imprisonment -- Emiria and Mia: Exceptional women -- Female Desire and the Monstrous-Feminine in the Works of IGAK Murniasih -- The monstrous-feminine in Murni's paintings -- Displacing desire: Sex and humour in Murniasih's works -- Women and desire in Bali -- Reading Murniasih: Framing desire -- Murniasih as an outsider artist? -- Searching for the Feminine: Motherhood and Maternal Subjectivity -- The changing representation of motherhood in Indonesian visual arts -- The maternal nude: Laksmi Shitaresmi -- Titarubi: Herstory in art -- Women, motherhood and political participation: Voice of the concerned mothers -- Political motherhood in the works of Titarubi -- Maternal Subjectivity: Women reading women -- Concluding remarks -- Performing Feminism/s: Performance Art and Politics in the Works of Kelompok PEREK and Arahmaiani -- Performance art in Indonesia -- Kelompok PEREK: Kelompok Perempuan Eksperimental (1998-) -- Challenging the status quo: The performances of Arahmaiani -- Global feminisms and Arahmaiani's politics of the body -- Religion and spirituality -- Performing feminism/s in Indonesian visual arts -- Concluding remarks -- Conclusion -- Strategies of correction: Interventions in art history -- Strategies of Interrogation: Searching for the feminine -- Reading feminism/s in post-New Order Indonesia -- Rearticulating feminine spaces in the Indonesian art world.

ISBN

• 9789089648457
• 9089648453

LCCN

2017453188

OCLC

• ocn944087190
• 944087190
• SCSB-1885847

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library