Buch, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 245 mm x 172 mm, Gewicht: 408 g
Women Artists and Cold War America
Buch, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 245 mm x 172 mm, Gewicht: 408 g
Reihe: Science and the Arts since 1750
ISBN: 978-0-367-19913-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
The rise of proxy wars, the Space Race, and cybernetics during the Cold War marked science and technology as vital sites of social and political power. Women artists, historically excluded from these domains, responded critically, while simultaneously redeploying the products of "Technological Society" into works that promoted ideals of progress and alternative concepts of human community. In this innovative book, author Christine Filippone offers the first focused examination of the conceptual use of science and technology by women artists during and just after the women’s movement. She argues that artists Alice Aycock, Agnes Denes, Martha Rosler and Carolee Schneemann used science and technology to mount a critique on Cold War American society as they saw it—conservative and constricting. Motivated by the contemporary American Women’s Movement, these artists transformed science and technology into new modes of artmaking that transgressed modernist, heroic, painterly styles and subverted the traditional economic structures of the gallery, the museum and the dealer. At the same time, the artists also embraced these domains of knowledge and practice as expressions of hope for a better future. Many found inspiration in the scientific theory of open systems, which investigated "problems of wholeness, dynamic interaction and organization", enabling consideration of the porous boundaries between human bodies and their social, political and nonhuman environments. Filippone also establishes that the theory of open systems not only informed feminist art, but also continued to influence women artists’ practice of reclamation and ecological art through the twenty-first century.
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Introduction
1. Classic Utopias and Feminist Utopianism in Art, Science and Technology
2. Technologies of Dominance and Liberation: New Left Thought in the Work of Martha Rosler and Carolee Schneemann
3. A Means for Change: The Aesthetics of Open Systems in the Work of Alice Aycock, Agnes Denes and Martha Rosler
4. Unmasking the Myth of the Machine: Physics and Cosmology in the Works of Alice Aycock and Agnes Denes
Conclusion
Epilogue: The Whole Earth: Open Systems and Eco Art