Women Making Art

Women have been making art for centuries, yet their work has been seen as secondary or has gone unrecognised altogether. Women Making Art asks why this is so, and what it would take for us to realise the extent of women's extraordinary contribution to the arts. Meskimmon examines work by a wide range of women artists from different cultures and historical periods, including Rebecca Horn, Rachel Whiteread, Shirin Neshat and Maya Lin, emphasising the diversity of women's art and the importance of differences between women.

ISBN	0415242789	Pages	272
ISBN13	9780415242783 (What's this?)	Volumes	1
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd	Weight (grammes)	544
Imprint	Routledge	Published in	London
Format	Paperback	Height (mm)	234
Publication date	16 Jan 2003	Width (mm)	156
Library of Congress	N8354.M47	Spine width (mm)	13
DEWEY	704.042	Academic level	Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly, General
DEWEY edition	DC21

	List of illustrations
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction: women making art	1
Pt. I	History	11
1	Exiled histories: Holocaust and Heimat	17
2	Corporeal cartography: women artists of the anglophone African diaspora	35
3	Re-inscribing histories: Viet Nam and representation	50
Pt. II	Subjectivity	69
4	Embodiment: space and situated knowledge	75
5	Performativity: desire and the inscribed body	91
6	Becoming: individuals, collectives and wondrous machines	110
Pt. III	Aesthetics	129
7	Pleasure and knowledge: 'Orientalism' and filmic vision	135
8	The word and the flesh: text/image re-made	151
9	The place of time: Australian feminist art and theory	168
	Afterword: On Wonder	185
	Notes	186
	Bibliography	209
	Index	223

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