Making our own art history

• Utgivningsdatum: 2027-02-16
• Mått: 170 x 240 x 15 mm
• Vikt: 457 g
• Format: Inbunden
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 304
• Förlag: Manchester University Press
• ISBN: 9781526189912

• Konsthistoria
• Referensverk och tvärvetenskap
• Genusvetenskap

Victoria Horne is an Associate Professor (Reader) in Arts at Northumbria University

‘Victoria Horne’s work provides an invaluable blueprint for how to do periodical studies in close detail; much like the kit that the FAN collective circulated to prospective editors of the magazine, this important book will give its readers the tools needed to make their own histories of feminist art publishing.’—Samuel Bibby, Association for Art History‘Making our own art history is an effort to understand what happened to the women’s art movement. A remarkable example of expansive and original art historical research, the book examines how feminists built an infrastructure for social transformation in the 1970s that encompassed the independent art press. With Feminist Art News as its focus, the book reclaims the dialectic between then and today, capturing the historical materiality and challenges of the feminist struggle and its insurgent literacy.’—Angela Dimitrakaki, University of Edinburgh‘Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Making Our Own Art History is an important contribution to the histories of feminist art and alternative publishing. Drawing on extensive archival research, oral histories, interviews, artworks, and ephemeral materials, Victoria Horne establishes Feminist Arts News's vital place in art history. With remarkable sensitivity and empathy, she reconstructs the social and material worlds of feminist publishing, capturing the labour, exhilaration, and transformative possibilities of this overlooked magazine. Her close attention to the material specificity of print—to paper, typography, collage, handwriting, even mistakes and typos—allows us to understand the magazine as a material and social practice rather than simply a container for texts and images. Her book is intellectually rigorous yet wonderfully alive, attentive to the messiness, contingency, and collectivity of history itself.’—Gwen Allen, San Francisco State University‘This is a significant book on the role Feminist Art News, as a grassroots publication, played in the formation of the feminist art movement that emerged in Britain in the 1980s. Using extensive archival research and original interviews it offers a detailed and previously unknown history that is complemented by the author's astute academic examination of every aspect of the magazine as it shifts and changes over the decade. ‘The recent interest in feminist art production from the 1970s and '80s, exemplified by the Tate Modern's exhibition Women in Revolt (2023) as well as institutional recognition, awards and media coverage is intriguing. This comes after a silence of many years. It is in this context that this publication is so significant. It is a detailed examination of the 45 issues of FAN produced from 1978 to 1993. It is notable for its extensive archive work, amazing illustrations and, complemented by interviews with the editorial groups, artists, and wider networks, it captures the personal voices and memories of those involved. In each chapter the author examines the history and production of FAN, textually and theoretically often bringing a contemporary lens to our understanding of the magazine. In the book we can feel the excitement, urgency and optimism of those earliest struggles to the more fractured 1990s, endorsing how feminist art production and feminist theoretical debates were not static but shifted and changed. This new book is a must for anyone who wants to appreciate the intricacies of the debates, actions and evolution of feminist art in this period.’—Sarah Edge, Emeritus Professor, Ulster University

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