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Unframed : practices and politics of women's contemporary painting / edited by Rosemary Betterton.

Contributor(s): Publication details: London : I.B.Tauris, 2003.Description: 228 pagesISBN:
  • 9781860647727
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Contents:
Unframing women's painting / Rosemary Betterton
'Before her time?' Lily Briscoe and painting now / Alison Rowley
Painting is not a representational practice / Barbara Bolt
Walking with Judy Watson: painting, politics and intercorporeality / Marsha Meskimmon
Susan Hiller's painted work: bodies, aesthetics and feminism / Rosemary Betterton
The self-portrait and the I/eye / Partou
Threads: dialogues with Jo Bruton, Beth Harland, Nicky May and Katie Pratt / Rosa Lee
Seeing and feeling / Rebecca Fortnum
Restretching the canvas / Pam Skelton
Inside the invisible: painting histories / Lubaina Himid
Revisiting Ann Harburz: inside community, outside convention / Joan Borsa
Summary: The first sustained analysis of the relationship between women's contemporary painting and feminism. This international collection of specially commissioned pieces brings together writing both by theorists engaged with the process and practice of painting and practitioners engaged in theory, to bring into question what has been a neglected area within feminist literature on visual culture. Looking at gender, subjectivity, spectatorship, the gendered audience and maternal subjectivity and painting, Unframed encourages reflexivity about the practice and includes in its scope a range of processes including drawing, printing, collage and installation. The process of painting and the materiality of paint, haptic vision and the contemporary sublime are all discussed. Lavishly illustrated in black and white, Unframed will be of interest to practitioners and students of fine art, art history and women's studies.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-220) and index.

Unframing women's painting / Rosemary Betterton

'Before her time?' Lily Briscoe and painting now / Alison Rowley

Painting is not a representational practice / Barbara Bolt

Walking with Judy Watson: painting, politics and intercorporeality / Marsha Meskimmon

Susan Hiller's painted work: bodies, aesthetics and feminism / Rosemary Betterton

The self-portrait and the I/eye / Partou

Threads: dialogues with Jo Bruton, Beth Harland, Nicky May and Katie Pratt / Rosa Lee

Seeing and feeling / Rebecca Fortnum

Restretching the canvas / Pam Skelton

Inside the invisible: painting histories / Lubaina Himid

Revisiting Ann Harburz: inside community, outside convention / Joan Borsa

The first sustained analysis of the relationship between women's contemporary painting and feminism. This international collection of specially commissioned pieces brings together writing both by theorists engaged with the process and practice of painting and practitioners engaged in theory, to bring into question what has been a neglected area within feminist literature on visual culture. Looking at gender, subjectivity, spectatorship, the gendered audience and maternal subjectivity and painting, Unframed encourages reflexivity about the practice and includes in its scope a range of processes including drawing, printing, collage and installation. The process of painting and the materiality of paint, haptic vision and the contemporary sublime are all discussed. Lavishly illustrated in black and white, Unframed will be of interest to practitioners and students of fine art, art history and women's studies.