Radical Gestures
Feminism and Performance Art in North America
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2006
- Category
- Reference
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780773529564
- Publish Date
- Aug 2006
- List Price
- $110.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780773530669
- Publish Date
- Aug 2006
- List Price
- $40.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773585232
- Publish Date
- Aug 2006
- List Price
- $40.95
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Description
Wark brings together a wide range of artists, including Lisa Steele, Martha Rosler, Lynda Benglis, Gillian Collyer, Margaret Dragu, and Sylvie Tourangeau, and provides detailed readings and viewings of individual pieces, many of which have not been studied in detail before. She reassesses assumptions about the generational and thematic characteristics of feminist art, placing feminist performance within the wider context of minimalism, conceptualism, land art, and happenings
About the author
Jayne Wark received her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Toronto in 1997 and also holds a BFA (Studio) from NSCAD. She has published numerous articles and exhibition catalogue essays on performance, video and conceptual art and is the author of Radical Gestures: Feminist Performance Art in North America