Main entry:

Wilson, Siona, 1970- author.

Title & Author:

Art labor, sex politics : feminist effects in 1970s British art and performance / Siona Wilson.

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]
©2015

Description:

xxix, 288 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
Outgrowth of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Columbia University, 2005).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-265) and index.
Introduction: sex politics -- Nightcleaners: the ambiguities of activism and the limits of production -- The spectator as reproducer: Mary Kelly's early films -- Prostitution and the problem of feminist art: the emergent queer aesthetic of COUM transmissions -- Revolting photographs: proletarian amateurism in Jo Spence and Terry Dennett's photography workshop.

Summary:

Contrary to critics who have called it the "undecade," the 1970s were a time of risky, innovative art-and nowhere more so than in Britain, where the forces of feminism and labor politics merged in a radical new aesthetic. In Art Labor, Sex Politics Siona Wilson investigates the charged relationship of sex and labor politics as it played out in the making of feminist art in 1970s Britain. Her sustained exploration of works of experimental film, installation, performance, and photography maps the intersection of feminist and leftist projects in the artistic practices of this heady period.

ISBN:

9780816685738 (hc ; alk. paper)
0816685738 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780816685752 (pb ; alk. paper)
0816685754 (pb ; alk. paper)
9781452943022 (ebook)

Subject:

Sex differences in art.
Sex role in art.
Women and the arts Great Britain History 20th century.
Arts and society Great Britain History 20th century.
Art history
Women history
Feminism history
Différences entre sexes dans l'art.
Rôle selon le sexe dans l'art.
Arts et femmes Grande-Bretagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Arts et société Grande-Bretagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Art and Design.
Arts and society.
Women and the arts.
Great Britain.

Form/genre:

Art, British.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 289768
Call No.: BIB 232395
Status: Available