Feminisms/Museums/Surveys

HILARY ROBINSON is a Professor of Feminism, Art, and Theory at Loughborough University, UK, where she teaches in art history, feminism, and visual culture. She is the co-editor of A Companion to Feminist Art (Wiley Blackwell, 2019) and the editor of Feminism-Art-Theory: An Anthology 1968-2014, Second Edition (Wiley Blackwell, 2016). LARA PERRY is Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Brighton, UK where she has taught courses and supervised research in History of Art and Design. She is the co-editor with Elke Krasny of Curating as Feminist Organizing (2023) and Curating with Care (2023), and the author of History’s Beauties: Women and the National Portrait Gallery, 1856-1900 (2006). She has published on topics in feminism, curation, 19th century artists, and museum studies.

• ContentsAcknowledgements xiOn Feminisms, Museums and Surveys: An Introduction 1Hilary Robinson and Lara Perry1 Life Actually 8Life Actually; the Works of Contemporary Japanese Women – Love and Solitude, and Laughter forSurvival in Japan 9Kasahara Michiko2 La Costilla Maldita 26The Accursed Rib 27Margarita Aizpuru3 Konstfeminism: Strategier Och Effekter I Sverige Från 1970-talet Till Idag 36Introduction 37Louise Andersson, Magnus Jensner, Anna Livion Ingvarsson, Anna Nyström, Barbro Werkmäster, and Niclas Östlind4 The Eighth Square: Gender, Life and Desire in the Arts since 1960 44The Eighth Square: Observations on an Exhibition Experiment 45Frank Wagner5 WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution 60Art and Feminism: An Ideology of Shifting Criteria 61Cornelia Butler6 Global Feminisms 68Curators’ Preface 69Maura Reilly and Linda Nochlin Copyrighted Material7 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: 45 Years of Art and Feminism 72Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: 86 Steps in 45 Years of Art and Feminism 73Xabier Arakistain8 Intimate Distance: Indonesian Women Artists 78Intimate Distance: Tracing Feminist Discourse in Indonesian Art 79Wulan Dirgantoro9 A Batalla dos Xéneros/Gender Battle 86The Benefit of Discord: Apropos of Gender Battle 87Juan Vicente Aliaga10 elles@centrepompidou: Women Artists in the Collection of the Musée National d’Art Moderne 114“elles@centrepompidou”: Addressing Difference 115Camille Morineau11 Rebelle: Art and Feminism 1969–2009 122Introduction 123Mirjam Westen12 Gender Check: Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe 138Proletarians of All Countries, Who Washes Your Socks? Equality, Dominance and Difference in Eastern European Art 139Bojana Pejić13 Modern Women: Women Artists at the Museum of Modern Art 158The Feminist Present: Women Artists at MoMA 159Cornelia Butler14 DONNA: Avanguardia Femminista Negli Anni ’70 dalla Sammlung Verbund di Vienna 170The Feminist Avant-Garde: A Radical Transformation 171Gabriele Schor15 Med Viljann ad Vopni – Endurlit 1970–1980 180The Will as a Weapon – Review 1970–1980 181Hrafnhildur Schram16 Žen d’Art: The History of Gender and Art in Post-Soviet Space: 1989–2009 188The History of Women’s Art: Archives, Theories and Actual Artistic Practice 189Nataliya Kamenetskaya and Oksana Sarkisyan17 Dream and Reality: Modern and Contemporary Women Artists from Turkey 194Dream and Reality: Modern and Contemporary Women Artists from Turkey 195Levent Çalıkoğlu18 Matronita: Jewish Feminist Art 202Tzena Ure’ena 203Dvora Liss19 This Will Have Been: Art, Love and Politics in the 1980s 214This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s 215Helen Molesworth20 Contemporary Australia: Women 240Here and Now 241Julie Ewington21 Women Adventurers: Five Eras of Taiwanese Art, 1930–1983 248Women Adventurers: Five Eras of Taiwanese Art, 1930–1983 249Yi-ting Lei22 The Beginning Is Always Today: Contemporary Feminist Art in Scandinavia 266The Beginning Is Always Today: Contemporary Feminist Art in Scandinavia 267Karin Hindsbo23 Where We’re At! Other Voices on Gender 278Joining the Ranks of the Invisible Struggle 279Christine EyeneOur Sister Next Door 284Christine Eyene24 East Asia Feminism: FANTasia 292East Asia Feminism: FANTasia 293Kim Hong-hee25 All Men Become Sisters 302Imagination Machine 303Joanna Sokołowska26 M/A\G/M\A: Body and Words in Italian and Lithuanian Women’s Art from 1965 to the Present 316MAGMA: A Revolt for Us 317Benedetta Carpi De ResminiThe Singing Revolution Continues 321Laima Kreivytė27 We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85 324Introduction 325Catherine Morris and Rujeko Hockley28 Being Her(e): Meditations on African Femininities 330Curatorial Statement 331Paula Nascimento29 Corpo a Corpo – Body to Body 334Body to Body: What Is Left? 335Paola Ugolini30 Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985 346Introduction 347Cecilia Fajardo-Hill and Andrea Giunta31 Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon 352Irreconcilable Difference 353Johanna Burton32 Women House 360From The Housewife to the Nana-Maison: Domesticity as a Key Theme for Women Artists 361Camille Morineau and Lucia Pesapane33 Collective Women: Feminist Art Archives from the 1970s to the 1990s 366Texts from the Auckland Art Gallery 2017 367Clare McIntosh34 Unfinished Business: Perspectives on Art and Feminism 372Unfinished Business 373Max DelanyBlak Female Futurisms and Yte Feminism Waves 379Paola Balla35 Bread and Roses: Four Generations of Kazakh Women Artists 382Gender, Empire and Decolonisation: Four Generations of Kazakh Women Artists 383David Elliott36 Niepodległe: Kobiety A Dyskurs Narodowy 398Niepodległe: Women, Independence and National Discourse 399Magda Lipska37 The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain 402Why the Insurrection, Medea? 403Susanne Altmann38 Paint, Also Known as Blood: Women, Affect and Desire in Contemporary Painting 418Rippers: Women, Affect and Desire, Between Figuration and Abstraction 419Natalia Sielewicz39 Kiss My Genders 428Kiss My Genders: A Conversation 429Vincent Honoré with Ajamu, Travis Alabanza, and Victoria Sin40 Her Own Way: Female Artists and the Moving Image in Art in Poland: From 1970s to the Present 436Her Own Way-Female Artists and the Moving Image in Art in Poland: From 1970s to the Present 437Okamura Keiko41 Women’s Histories, Feminist Histories 444Feminist Histories: Artists After 2000 445Isabella Rjeille42 Feminnale: 1st Feminnale of Contemporary Art 452Feminnale: 1st Feminnale of Contemporary Art 453Bishkek Feminist Initiatives Team43 Masculinities: Liberation Through Photography 456Performing Masculinities 457Alona Pardo44 Earthkeeping/Earthshaking: Arte, Feminismos e Ecologia 468Earthkeeping/Earthshaking: Art, Feminisms and Ecology 469Giulia Lamoni and Vanessa Badagliacca45 Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now 480Foreword 481Nick Mitzevich and Natasha BullockGuiding Principles for Gender Equity 483Nick Mitzevich and Natasha Bullock46 Female Identities in the Global South 484Contemporary Female Identities in the Global South 485Bronwyn Law- ViljoenLiminal Identities in the Global South 489Clive KellnerModernist Identities in the Global South 497Clive KellnerHistorical Background 503Clive Kellner47 I Remember Therefore I am. Unwritten Stories: Woman Artist Archives 506I Remember, Therefore I Am 507Andra Silapētere48 Who Will Write the History of Tears: Artists on Women’s Rights 512About the Exhibition 513Magda Lipska, Sebastian Cichocki, and Łukasz Ronduda49 Declaration: A Pacific Feminist Agenda 514Declaration: A Pacific Feminist Agenda 515Ane Tonga50 Empowerment: Art and Feminisms 524Empowerment: Art and Feminisms – Introduction 525Andreas Beitin, Katharina Koch, and Uta Ruhkamp51 Women in Revolt! Art, Activism, and the Women’s Movement in the UK 1970–1990 534Introduction: The Personal Is Political 535Linsey YoungIndex of Curators 546Index of Artists 549Áine McKenny and Marlous van BoldrikIndex 588