Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Feminism and Conceptual Practice 2. The Body and Performance Art 3. Alternative Spaces for Feminist Art 4. Feminist Themes in Contemporary Practice Notes Bibliography Index

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Primarily concerned with the feminist body as site for making and exhibiting works, this book examines themes that look at the body as material, the body and performance, as well as the alternative creative platforms in 1970s feminist art.

About the Author

Kathy Battista is Director, Contemporary Art at Sotheby's Institute of Art, New York, and Senior Research Fellow, Winchester Centre for Global Futures in Art Design and Media at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. She is a regular contributor to Art Monthly and Brooklyn Rail.

Reviews

'Kathy Battista's book does much more than its title suggests. It is an assiduous study of the founding generation of feminist artists in Britain. The book is timely both because so much of this emergent feminist movement was ephemeral in its day, and were it not for Battista's careful excavation it would be in jeopardy of extinction, and because only now with the historical perspective of four decades is it possible fully to contextualize and assess the significance of the work done in the 1970s.' Professor Jo Anna Isaak, John L. Marion Chair, Department of Art History, Fordham University.