Femininity, Time and Feminist Art

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Clare Johnson

   Pages 1-14

3. Fantasies of Adventure, Escape and Return: Tracey Emin’s Why I Never Became a Dancer

   • Clare Johnson

   Pages 15-35

4. Traces of Feminist Art: Temporal Complexity in the Work of Eleanor Antin and Elizabeth Manchester

   • Clare Johnson

   Pages 36-55

5. Sexuality, Loss and Maternal Desire in the Work of Carolee Schneemann and Tracey Emin

   • Clare Johnson

   Pages 56-76

6. Feminist Narratives and Unfaithful Repetition: Hannah Wilke’s Starification Object Series

   • Clare Johnson

   Pages 77-99

7. Critical Mimesis: Hannah Wilke’s Double Address

   • Clare Johnson

   Pages 100-114

8. Smooth Surfaces and Flattened Fantasies: Thoughts on Criticality in Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Soliloquy III

   • Clare Johnson

   Pages 115-131

9. Near-Stillness in the Art Films of Sam Taylor-Johnson and Vanessa Beecroft

   • Clare Johnson

   Pages 132-151

10. Back Matter

    Pages 152-173

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This book examines feminist art of the 1970s through contemporary art made by women. In a series of readings of artworks by, amongst others, Tracey Emin, Vanessa Beecroft, Hannah Wilke and Carolee Schneemann the reader is taken on a journey through maternal desire, fantasies of escape and failed femininity.

• art
• bibliography
• complexity
• Contemporary art
• dance
• feminism
• flat
• knowledge
• object
• time
• women

• University of the West of England, UK

  Clare Johnson

Clare Johnson is Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture at the Faculty of Creative Arts, Humanities and Education, University of the West of England, UK. She has written a number of articles for international journals and is on the editorial board for the Journal of Gender Studies.

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