Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s

Nancy Princenthal

4/5 ( ratings)

The 1970s was a time of deep division and newfound freedoms. Galvanized by The Second Sex and The Feminine Mystique, the civil rights movement and the March on Washington, a new generation put their bodies on the line to protest injustice. Still, even in the heart of certain resistance movements, sexual violence against women had reached epidemic levels. Initially, it went largely unacknowledged. But some bold women artists and activists, including Yoko Ono, Ana Mendieta, Marina Abramovic´, Adrian Piper, Suzanne Lacy, Nancy Spero, and Jenny Holzer, fired up by women’s experiences and the climate of revolution, started a conversation about sexual violence that continues today. Some worked unannounced and unheralded, using the street as their theater. Others managed to draw support from the highest levels of municipal power. Along the way, they changed the course of art, pioneering a form that came to be called simply, performance.

Award-winning author Nancy Princenthal takes on these enduring issues and weaves together a new history of performance, challenging us to reexamine the relationship between art and activism, and how we can apply the lessons of that turbulent era to today.

Pages: 304

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Thames Hudson

Release: October 15, 2019

ISBN: 0500023050

ISBN 13: 9780500023051

Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s

Nancy Princenthal

4/5 ( ratings)

The 1970s was a time of deep division and newfound freedoms. Galvanized by The Second Sex and The Feminine Mystique, the civil rights movement and the March on Washington, a new generation put their bodies on the line to protest injustice. Still, even in the heart of certain resistance movements, sexual violence against women had reached epidemic levels. Initially, it went largely unacknowledged. But some bold women artists and activists, including Yoko Ono, Ana Mendieta, Marina Abramovic´, Adrian Piper, Suzanne Lacy, Nancy Spero, and Jenny Holzer, fired up by women’s experiences and the climate of revolution, started a conversation about sexual violence that continues today. Some worked unannounced and unheralded, using the street as their theater. Others managed to draw support from the highest levels of municipal power. Along the way, they changed the course of art, pioneering a form that came to be called simply, performance.

Award-winning author Nancy Princenthal takes on these enduring issues and weaves together a new history of performance, challenging us to reexamine the relationship between art and activism, and how we can apply the lessons of that turbulent era to today.

Pages: 304

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Thames Hudson

Release: October 15, 2019

ISBN: 0500023050

ISBN 13: 9780500023051

More books from Nancy Princenthal

Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art

3.8/5 ( ratings)

The Reckoning: Women Artists of the New Millennium

Doris Salcedo

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Hannah Wilke

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Alfredo Jaar: The Fire This Time: Public Interventions 1979-2005

Joyce Kozloff: Co-Ordinates

The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1991

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Mark Di Suvero

Nancy Rubins: Drawing, Sculpture, Studies

Gary Simmons: Paradise

Natural Histories: Public Art by Larry Kirkland

Mothers of Invention: The Feminist Roots of Contemporary Art

Creative Legacy: A History of the National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists' Fellowship Program

Chuck Close - Recent Work

Mel Kendrick

Chris Martin

Shirin Neshat

Rate this book!

Write a review?