Feminism and Art History Now

Victoria Horne is Senior Lecturer in Art & Design History at Northumbria University, UK. She was previously Teaching Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and Paul Mellon Centre Postdoctoral Fellow. Horne has published articles in Feminist Review, Radical Philosophy and Journal of Visual Culture. She established the Writing Feminist Art Histories research initiative in 2012 and edited a special issue of Women: A Cultural Review?on the theme ‘Danger! Women Reading: Feminist Encounters with Art, History and Theory’ in 2019. Lara Perry is Associate Dean for Education & Student Experience in the School of Humanities & Social Science at the University of Brighton, UK. She is the author of History's Beauties: Women and the National Portrait Gallery, 1856-1900 (2006) and co-editor of English Art, 1860-1914: Modern Artists and Identity (2000, with David Peters Corbett) and Politics in a Glass Case: Feminism, Exhibition Cultures and Curatorial Transgressions (2013, with Angela Dimitrakaki).

As an innovative selection that engenders new approaches to writing feminist art histories today, [this collection] unquestionably adds to the scholarship and the growing number of edited collections on feminist art and art histories.

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Feminism and Art History Now Victoria Horne and Lara PerryPART I. WRITING | SPEAKING | STORYTELLING 1. An Unfinished Revolution in Art Historiography, or How to Write a Feminist Art History Victoria Horne and Amy Tobin2. I Want a Dyke for President: Sounding out Zoe Leonard’s Manifesto for Art History’s Feminist Futures Laura Guy3. ‘Our Stories Are Our Life Blood’: Indigenous Feminist Memory and Storytelling as Strategy for Social Change Cherry SmileyPART II. VISIBILITY | INTERVENTION | REFUSAL 4. Making Visible Lee Krasner’s Occupation: Feminist Art Historiography and the Pollock-Krasner Studio Andrew Hardman5. Challenging Feminist Art History: Carla Lonzi’s Divergent Paths Giovanna Zapperi6. This Moment: A Dialogue on Participation, Refusal and History Making Angela Dimitrakaki and Lara PerryPART III. SPATIALITY | OCCUPATION | HOME 7. The Salon Model: The Conversational Complex Elke Krasny8. Los Angeles, 1972/Glasgow, 1990: A Report on Castlemilk Womanhouse Hannah Hamblin9. If You Lived Here…: A Case Study on Social Reproduction in Feminist Art History Kirsten LloydPART IV. TEMPORALITY | GHOSTS | RETURNS 10. Temporalities of the ‘Feminaissance’ Francesco Ventrella11. Gestures of Inclusion, Bodily Damage and the Hauntings of Exploitation in Global Feminisms (2007) Kimberly Lamm12. Learning and Playing: Re-enacting Feminist Histories Catherine GrantIndex