Feminism and Art History Now: Radical Critiques of Theory and Practice 9781784533250, 9781786722355, 1784533254

Table of contents :
Cover......Page 1
Author Bio......Page 3
Endorsement......Page 4
Title page......Page 5
Copyright information......Page 6
Table of Contents......Page 7
List of Illustrations......Page 9
Notes on Contributors......Page 13
Acknowledgements......Page 19
Introduction......Page 21
Making and Maintaining the Past......Page 27
Notes......Page 38
Part I Writing | Speaking | Storytelling......Page 45
1 An Unfinished Revolution in Art Historiography, or How to Write a Feminist Art History......Page 51
The Problematic: Writing Feminist Art Histories......Page 52
The Model: Collective Knowledge Production......Page 54
Writing Feminist Art Histories: 2010s......Page 57
Notes......Page 59
2 I Want a Dyke for President: Sounding out Zoe Leonard’s Manifesto for Art History’s Feminist Futures......Page 61
The Time of the Manifesto......Page 63
And I Want to Know Why This Isn’t Possible…......Page 67
Read My Lips, Again......Page 70
Notes......Page 79
3 ‘Our Stories Are Our Life Blood’: Indigenous Feminist Memory and Storytelling as Strategy for Social Change......Page 83
Memory......Page 86
Storytelling......Page 90
Social Change......Page 95
Conclusion......Page 97
Notes......Page 99
Part II Visibility | Intervention | Refusal......Page 103
4 Making Visible Lee Krasner’s Occupation: Feminist Art Historiography and the PollockKrasner Studio......Page 107
Notes......Page 121
From Art Criticism to Feminism......Page 124
Critique of Knowledge......Page 128
Male Creativity and Female Expression......Page 132
Lonzi’s Withdrawal......Page 135
Notes......Page 141
6 This Moment: A Dialogue on Participation, Refusal and History Making......Page 144
Notes......Page 159
Part III Spatiality | Occupation | Home......Page 163
7 The Salon Model: The Conversational Complex......Page 167
Notes......Page 180
8 Los Angeles, 1972/ Glasgow, 1990: A Report on Castlemilk Womanhouse......Page 184
Reclaiming History: Castlemilk Womanhouse and Womanhouse, Los Angeles......Page 185
Classing Womanhouse......Page 190
Feminist Resonances: Collaboration and Separatism 1972/90......Page 194
Notes......Page 199
From Housework to Housing......Page 203
Social Reproduction and the Feminisation of Survival......Page 206
Home Truths: in and around the City......Page 209
Relational Documents......Page 211
Bringing it Back Home: Life at the Frontier......Page 214
Notes......Page 217
Part IV Temporality | Ghosts | Returns......Page 223
Returns and Revivals......Page 227
On Not Translating ‘Feminist Art’......Page 230
The Political Grammar of Curating 1: Venice, 2005......Page 233
The Political Grammar of Curating 2: Rome, 2010......Page 236
The Political Grammar of Curating 3: Bologna, 2013......Page 240
Conclusion......Page 244
Notes......Page 245
11 Gestures of Inclusion, Bodily Damage and the Hauntings of Exploitation in......Page 250
A Striking Juxtaposition......Page 252
Seeing Progress......Page 260
Feminist Globalisation......Page 264
The Affective Labour of the Image......Page 268
The Haunting of Feminism......Page 272
Conclusion......Page 275
Notes......Page 276
12 Learning and Playing: Reenacting Feminist Histories......Page 280
The Learning Play......Page 283
The Emily Davison Lodge......Page 287
Women and Work......Page 289
A Time of One’s Own......Page 290
Notes......Page 297
Index......Page 303