Martha Wilson Sourcebook : 40 Years of Reconsidering Performance, Feminism, Alternative Spaces
  • reference book
  • pictorial wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white
  • 27.8 x 21.5 cm.
  • 256 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 9780916365851

Martha Wilson Sourcebook : 40 Years of Reconsidering Performance, Feminism, Alternative Spaces

Martha Wilson, Moira Roth, Kate Fowle

Martha Wilson Sourcebook : 40 Years of Reconsidering Performance, Feminism, Alternative Spaces

description

Compendium of materials chosen by Martha Wilson which have influenced her career and / or were milestones in it. Foreword by Kate Fowle. Introduction by Moira Roth. Texts by Martha Wilson, Laurence Sterne, Gertrude Stein, Simone de Beauvoir, Ellen Berscheid, Elaine Walster, R.D. Laing, H. Phillipson, A.R. Lee, Roland Barthes, Erving Goffman, Vito Acconci, Linda Nochlin, Lynda Benglis, Lucy R. Lippard, Jayne Wark, Howardena Pindell, Carolee Schneemann, Nancy Spero, Shere Hite, Betty Dodson, Susan Sontag, Kathy Acker, Holly O'Grady, Linda Frye Burnham, Angela Y. Davis, Virginia Cholesterol, Mrs. Theodore William Banks, Mira Schor, The Guerilla Girls, C. Carr, Jesse Helms, Toni Sant, Alan Moore, and Debra Wacks. "Martha Wilson's career encapsulates the constellations of feminist and socially engaged art. In her work and throughout her life, Wilson has explored how identity and positioning are not merely given, self-defined or projected, but also negotiated. The complex nature of her work encompasses conceptually-based performances, videos and photo-text compositions since the early 1970s. 'Martha Wilson Sourcebook' is a collection of primary research materials consisting of rare archival documents and excerpts of landmark publications that influenced Wilson, such as Simone de Beauvoir's 'The Second Sex,' Erving Goffman's 'The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life' and Susan Sontag's 'On Photography.' This unique selection of materials documents Wilson's actions and work, reveals her interest in fellow artists such as Vito Acconci, Carolee Scheemann, Nancy Spero and Lynda Benglis and includes in its entirety Lucy Lippard's exhibition catalogue for 'c. 7,500,' the groundbreaking 1973 exhibition of women conceptual artists, which first declared the significance of Wilson's work." -- publisher's statement.

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