
Joan Semmel: Skin in the Game
Joan Semmel(Artist)
Marquand Books Inc (Publisher)
Published on 16. September 2021
Book
Hardback
128 pages
978-1-64657-016-4 (ISBN)
Description
A much-needed survey of the influential feminist painting of Joan Semmel, with rarely seen drawings and collages
This publication, the first comprehensive catalog on the painting of New York-based artist Joan Semmel (born 1932), traces the artist's career from early abstract paintings through her movement-defining feminist art and activism and, finally, to the vital and monumental images that she is making today of her own mature body. The book gives readers the opportunity to experience almost 55 years of Semmel's extraordinary work, including a selection of her rarely seen drawings and collages.
In the face of persistent censorship and in defiance of deep-rooted sexism and ageism, Semmel has relentlessly made paintings that reflect the ongoing struggle for women's equal representation, power to make decisions about their own bodies and sexuality, and empowerment through the self. At a moment when sex and body positivity have become international movements, this volume celebrates Semmel's pivotal and under-recognized role in bringing these ideas forward.
This publication, the first comprehensive catalog on the painting of New York-based artist Joan Semmel (born 1932), traces the artist's career from early abstract paintings through her movement-defining feminist art and activism and, finally, to the vital and monumental images that she is making today of her own mature body. The book gives readers the opportunity to experience almost 55 years of Semmel's extraordinary work, including a selection of her rarely seen drawings and collages.
In the face of persistent censorship and in defiance of deep-rooted sexism and ageism, Semmel has relentlessly made paintings that reflect the ongoing struggle for women's equal representation, power to make decisions about their own bodies and sexuality, and empowerment through the self. At a moment when sex and body positivity have become international movements, this volume celebrates Semmel's pivotal and under-recognized role in bringing these ideas forward.
Reviews / Votes
The dynamic layout generates multiple visual orgasms with each turn of the page. -- Tanya Augsburg * Women's Art Journal * Joan Semmel, along with other women artists who shifted from abstraction to more representational painting in the 1960s and 1970s, faced a challenge: Could they overthrow the centuries-old tradition of male artists objectifying female nudes? Joan Semmel: Skin in the Game, an illustrated collection of three essays that accompanies the eighty-eight-year-old Semmel's first-ever retrospective, demonstrates that Semmel faced this challenge by painting, literally, from her own perspective. -- Fran Bigman * Bookforum *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
100 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 272 mm
Width: 244 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
998 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-64657-016-4 (9781646570164)
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Schweitzer Classification