Otherworlds : The Art of Nancy Spero and Kiki Smith
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Otherworlds brings together the work of two American artists from different generations_Nancy Spero and Kiki Smith. The book explores thematic connections in their work_the female body, myth and fantasy, the "decorative_" and situates them in the context of post-War American art and social movements, and feminist and cultural theory.
Both artists reclaim the female body as an expressive vehicle of emancipation and desire, and both employ fantasy and decoration to subversive ends. Spero_s work explores the potential recording of space and architecture through a visual poetics of word and image. Kiki Smith treats the body in/as process, creating iconic female figures that threaten to revert to a fluid or skeletal state. About the Author Jon Bird is Professor of Art and Critical Theory at Middlesex University, UK, and a tutor in the Theory Department at the Jan van Eyck Acadamie, Maastricht. He is the co-editor of Rewriting Conceptual Art (Reaktion, 1999) and Leon Golub: Echoes of the Real (Reaktion, 2000).
Otherworlds : The Art of Nancy Spero and Kiki Smith,Jon Bird,Reaktion Books,1861891881,Art,Art & Art Instruction,Assemblage Art,General,History - Contemporary (1945- ),Sculpture,Art / General,Art styles: c 1960 -,Individual artists
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