A Time of One's Own
Histories of Feminism in Contemporary Art
Published on 9. September 2022
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-1-4780-1620-5 (ISBN)
Description
In A Time of One's Own Catherine Grant examines how contemporary feminist artists are turning to broad histories of feminism ranging from political organizing and artworks from the 1970s to queer art and activism in the 1990s. Exploring artworks from 2002 to 2017 by artists including Sharon Hayes, Mary Kelly, Allyson Mitchell, Deirdre Logue, Lubaina Himid, Pauline Boudry, and Renate Lorenz, Grant maps a revival of feminism that takes up the creative and political implications of forging feminist communities across time and space. Grant characterizes these artists' engagement with feminism as a fannish, autodidactic, and collective form of learning from history. This fandom of feminism allows artists to build relationships with previous feminist ideas, artworks, and communities that reject a generational model and embrace aspects of feminism that might be seen as embarrassing, queer, or anachronistic. Accounting for the growing interest in feminist art, politics, and ideas across generations, Grant demonstrates that for many contemporary feminist artists, the present moment can only be understood through an embodied engagement with history in which feminist pasts are reinhabited and reimagined.
Reviews / Votes
"Grant's evocative writing delineates the affective contours of collective art participation, and she vividly transports the reader with her on various expeditions - to an outdoor group performance in a wintry Trafalgar Square, to cacophonous choral readings of feminist texts or sitting alone on the last quiet days of a gallery exhibition. One of the true pleasures of the volume is its deep attentiveness to the textures, materials and experience of works of art, interwoven with the author's compelling account of how cultural encounters strengthened her feminist consciousness."- Victoria Horne (Burlington Contemporary) "Grant's writing opens avenues for imagining possible feminist pasts, presents, and futures." - Julia Alting (Trigger) "An original, associative and compelling account of archival fever and fandom in feminist practice ... An exemplar for the ways we can, and should, learn together."
- Susannah Thompson (Art History) "The undoubted importance of Grant's book lies in the flexibility and breadth of the new set of terms and conceptual frameworks she applies to contemporary feminist art history. . . . The author's transparent subjectivity and embrace of complexity offer up an authentically feminist work of scholarship predicated on her expansion of a familiar precept on her expansion of a familiar precept: 'The personal is the artistic is the professional is the political' (54)." - Jennifer S. Griffiths (Woman's Art Journal)
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
North Carolina
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
61 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
487 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4780-1620-5 (9781478016205)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Catherine Grant is a Reader at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, and coeditor of Fandom as Methodology and Creative Writing and Art History.
Content
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Anachronizing Feminism 1
1. Fans of Feminism 21
2. Killjoy's Kastle in London 47
3. A Time of One's Own 67
4. A Feminist Chorus 87
5. Conversations and Constellations 109
Conclusion. Rooms of Our Own 133
Notes 151
Bibliography 179
Index 205
Introduction. Anachronizing Feminism 1
1. Fans of Feminism 21
2. Killjoy's Kastle in London 47
3. A Time of One's Own 67
4. A Feminist Chorus 87
5. Conversations and Constellations 109
Conclusion. Rooms of Our Own 133
Notes 151
Bibliography 179
Index 205