Difference and Excess in Contemporary Art
The Visibility of Women's Practice
Art History Special Issues
1. Edition February 2004
200 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-1-4051-1202-4
John Wiley & Sons
This thought-provoking book explores the increasing visibility of
women's art in Britain, Europe and America.
* * Considers the work of American artists Martha Rosler and Kara
Walker, Irish artist Alice Maher, British artists Lubaina Himid,
Christine Borland, Sarah Lucas, Cornelia Parker, Gillian Wearing
and Rachel Whiteread, and the international performance group, moti
roti.
* * Features specially-commissioned interviews with some of these
artists.
* * Covers diverse media, from sculpture and painting through to
photography, installations, video and performance.
Notes on Contributors.
1. Introduction: Visibility, Difference and Excess: Gill
Perry.
2. 'Out of it': Drunkenness and Ethics in Martha Rosler and
Gillian Wearing: David Hopkins.
3. A Strange Alchemy: Cornelia Parker: Interviewed by Lisa
Tickner.
4. Antibodies: Rachel Whiteread's Water Tower: Sue
Malvern.
5. Hybrid Histories: Alice Maher: Fionna Barber.
6. Reading Black Through White in the Work of Kara Walker: A
Discussion Between Michael Corris and Robert Hobbs.
7. Corporeal Theory with in Practice: Christine Borland's
Winter Garden: Marsha Meskimmon.
8. Cultural Crossings: Performing Race and Trans-gender in the
Work of moti roti: Dorothy Rowe.
9. Lubaina Himid's Plan B: Close-up Magic and Tricky
Allusions: Jane Beckett.
Index.
1. Introduction: Visibility, Difference and Excess: Gill
Perry.
2. 'Out of it': Drunkenness and Ethics in Martha Rosler and
Gillian Wearing: David Hopkins.
3. A Strange Alchemy: Cornelia Parker: Interviewed by Lisa
Tickner.
4. Antibodies: Rachel Whiteread's Water Tower: Sue
Malvern.
5. Hybrid Histories: Alice Maher: Fionna Barber.
6. Reading Black Through White in the Work of Kara Walker: A
Discussion Between Michael Corris and Robert Hobbs.
7. Corporeal Theory with in Practice: Christine Borland's
Winter Garden: Marsha Meskimmon.
8. Cultural Crossings: Performing Race and Trans-gender in the
Work of moti roti: Dorothy Rowe.
9. Lubaina Himid's Plan B: Close-up Magic and Tricky
Allusions: Jane Beckett.
Index.
"This is a prepossessing volume... all contributions raise questions that are indeed pressing, and address them in thought-provoking and, on the whole, insightful ways." The Art Book
Gill Perry is Senior Lecturer in Art History at the Open University. She has published books and articles on eighteenth-century British art and twentieth-century European art, including Women Artists and the Parisian Avant-Garde (1995) and Gender and Art (1999).
