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This book analyses how three artists - Adrian Piper, Nancy Spero and Mary Kelly - worked with the visual dimensions of language in the 1960s and 1970s. These artists used text and images of writing to challenge female stereotypes, addressing viewers and asking them to participate in the project of imagining women beyond familiar words and images of subordination. The book explores this dimension of their work through the concept of 'the other woman', a utopian wish to reach women and correspond with them across similarities and differences. To make the artwork's aspirations more concrete, it places the artists in correspondence with three writers - Angela Davis, Valerie Solanas, and Laura Mulvey - who also addressed the limited range of images through which women are allowed to become visible.
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In Addressing the other woman, Kimberly Lamm analyses how the artists Adrian Piper, Nancy Spero, and Mary Kelly worked with the visual dimensions of language in the 1960s and 1970s. Using text and pictures of writing, these artists challenged dominant images of femininity, inviting viewers to participate in the project of imagining women beyond familiar worlds that reinforce their subordination. At the heart of this project is 'the other woman', a figure Lamm identifies as representing a utopian wish to reach other women and correspond with them across similarities and differences. In order to make the artworks' aspirations to address the other woman more concrete, Lamm places the artists in correspondence with three writers - Angela Davis, Valerie Solanas, and Laura Mulvey - who also addressed the limited range of images through which women are allowed to become visible. These writers enlarge our understanding of the artists' textual interventions, and their own efforts to imagine, create, and reach their audiences shed light on how and why the artists turned to text and writing. Rigorously composed and convincingly argued, Addressing the other woman offers a multi-faceted picture of the feminisms that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s. It will appeal to scholars and students of feminist art history, visual studies, and literature.
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In Addressing the other woman, Kimberly Lamm analyses how the artists Adrian Piper, Nancy Spero, and Mary Kelly worked with the visual dimensions of language in the 1960s and 1970s. Using text and pictures of writing, these artists challenged dominant images of femininity, inviting viewers to participate in the project of imagining women beyond familiar worlds that reinforce their subordination. At the heart of this project is 'the other woman', a figure Lamm identifies as representing a utopian wish to reach other women and correspond with them across similarities and differences. In order to make the artworks' aspirations to address the other woman more concrete, Lamm places the artists in correspondence with three writers - Angela Davis, Valerie Solanas, and Laura Mulvey - who also addressed the limited range of images through which women are allowed to become visible. These writers enlarge our understanding of the artists' textual interventions, and their own efforts to imagine, create, and reach their audiences shed light on how and why the artists turned to text and writing. Rigorously composed and convincingly argued, Addressing the other woman offers a multi-faceted picture of the feminisms that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s. It will appeal to scholars and students of feminist art history, visual studies, and literature.
Author Biography
Kimberly Lamm is Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University.
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- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Publication Date December 2024
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781526182531 / 152618253X
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatPrint PDF
- Pages312
- ReadershipGeneral/trade; College/higher education; Professional and scholarly
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions234 X 156 mm
- Biblio NotesDerived from Proprietary 4125
- SeriesRethinking Art's Histories
- Reference Code17062
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