Radical Gestures: Feminism and Performance Art in North AmericaWark 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 |
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Radical Gestures: Feminism and Performance Art in North America Jayne Wark No preview available - 2006 |
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Democratic Communications: Formations, Projects, Possibilities James Frederick Hamilton Limited preview - 2008 |