TY - BOOK ID - 145096266 TI - Pain and politics in post-war feminist art : activism in the work of Nancy Spero PY - 2023 SN - 9781788312608 1788312600 PB - London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, DB - UniCat KW - Frauenkunst. KW - Schmerz KW - Politische Kunst. KW - Aktionskunst. KW - Spero, Nancy KW - Geschichte 1966-1976 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:145096266 AB - "Between 1966 and 1976, American artist Nancy Spero completed some of her most aggressively political work. Made at a time when Spero was a key member of the anti-war and feminist arts-activism that burgeoned in the New York art world during the period, her works demonstrate a violent and bodily rejection of injustice.Considering the ways in which anti-war and feminist art used emotion as a means to persuade and protest, Pain and Politics in Postwar Feminist Art examines the history of this crucial decade in American art politics through close attention to Spero's practice. Situating her work amongst the activism that defined the era, this book examines the ways in which sensation and emotion became political weapons for a generation of artists seeking to oppose patriarchy and war.Exemplary of the way in which artists were using metaphors of sensation and emotion in their work as part of the anti-Vietnam war and feminist art movements in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Spero's practice acts as a model for representing how politics feels. By exploring Spero's political engagement anew, this book offer a profound recontextualization of the important contribution that Spero made to Feminist thought, politics and art in the US." ER -