Feminisms/Museums/Surveys

An Anthology

Hilary Robinson, Lara Perry

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2025
• Print ISBN: 9781119897576
• eBook ISBN: 9781119897590
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Museum Studies

The first anthology of feminist art exhibition essays and museum publications, providing an exciting and valuable overview of recent developments in feminist curation

Feminisms-Museums-Surveys: Exhibition Curating 2005-2022 brings together works from exhibition catalogs and museum publications to provide a comprehensive and timely view of the modern approach to feminist curating. Offering insights into how curators from around the world engage with different feminisms and select and exhibit feminist art, this one-of-a-kind anthology exemplifies the diversity of feminist thinking and curatorial approaches in the contemporary art museum.

This important volume comprises articles and essays drawn from publications which accompanied major curatorial projects from different regions around the globe, and each essay offers a unique critical interpretation of feminist art. Organized chronologically, the book presents the essays — the majority in print for the first time since their initial publications and some for the first time in English — with the dates and venues of the exhibition and a brief introduction by the editors. All the artists in the exhibitions and the curators involved are indexed in the supplementary material. Making key examples of feminist curating easily accessible to a wider audience of scholars and students, this unique anthology:

• Offers a transnational perspective on feminist curating, featuring exhibitions from across Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa and the Americas
• Highlights the diverse ways in which curators have attempted to bring feminist theory into the museum exhibition format
• Illustrates how feminist ideas have evolved in diverse ways in the international community of museum professionals
• Includes an index of artists and curators whose work is represented in the volume

Offering deep insights into how curators have approached the documentation and representation of art informed by feminist politics and thinking, Feminisms-Museums-Surveys: Exhibition Curating 2005-2022 is an ideal resource for courses in feminism and art, curation, LGBTQ art, art and politics, museum studies, art history, cultural studies, feminist and gender studies, and related courses across fine arts and visual arts programs.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• On Feminisms, Museums and Surveys: An Introduction
• Chapter 1 Life Actually; the Works of Contemporary Japanese Women – Love and Solitude, and Laughter for Survival in Japan
• Chapter 2 The Accursed Rib
• Chapter 3 Introduction
• I
• II
• III
• IV
• V
• VI
• VII
• VIII
• Chapter 4 The Eighth Square: Observations on an Exhibition Experiment
• Chapter 5 Art and Feminism: An Ideology of Shifting Criteria
• Chapter 6 Curators’ Preface
• Chapter 7 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: 86 Steps in 45 Years of Art and Feminism
• Chapter 8 Intimate Distance: Tracing Feminist Discourse in Indonesian Art*
• Chapter 9 The Benefit of Discord: Apropos of Gender Battle
• Chapter 10 “elles@centrepompidou”: Addressing Difference
• Chapter 11 Introduction
• Chapter 12 Proletarians of All Countries, Who Washes Your Socks? Equality, Dominance and Difference in Eastern European Art
• Chapter 13 The Feminist Present: Women Artists at MoMA
• Chapter 14 The Feminist Avant-Garde: A Radical Transformation
• Chapter 15 The Will as a Weapon – Review 1970–1980*
• Chapter 16 The History of Women’s Art: Archives, Theories and Actual Artistic Practice
• Chapter 17 Dream and Reality: Modern and Contemporary Women Artists from Turkey
• Chapter 18 Tzena Ure’ena
• Chapter 19 This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s
• Chapter 20 Here and Now
• Chapter 21 Women Adventurers: Five Eras of Taiwanese Art, 1930–1983
• Chapter 22 The Beginning Is Always Today: Contemporary Feminist Art in Scandinavia
• Chapter 23 Joining the Ranks of the Invisible Struggle1
• Chapter 24 East Asia Feminism: FANTasia
• Chapter 25 Imagination Machine
• Chapter 26 MAGMA: A Revolt for Us
• Chapter 27 Introduction
• Chapter 28 Curatorial Statement
• Chapter 29 Body to Body: What Is Left?
• Chapter 30 Introduction
• Chapter 31 Irreconcilable Difference
• Chapter 32 From The Housewife to the Nana-Maison: Domesticity as a Key Theme for Women Artists
• Chapter 33 Texts from the Auckland Art Gallery 2017
• Chapter 34 Unfinished Business
• Chapter 35 Gender, Empire and Decolonisation: Four Generations of Kazakh Women Artists
• Chapter 36 Niepodlege: Women, Independence and National Discourse
• Chapter 37 Why the Insurrection, Medea?
• Chapter 38 Rippers: Women, Affect and Desire, Between Figuration and Abstraction*
• Chapter 39 Kiss My Genders: A Conversation
• Chapter 40 Her Own Way - Female Artists and the Moving Image in Art in Poland: From 1970s to the Present
• Chapter 41 Feminist Histories: Artists After 2000
• Chapter 42 Feminnale: 1st Feminnale of Contemporary Art
• Chapter 43 Performing Masculinities
• Chapter 44 Earthkeeping/Earthshaking: Art, Feminisms and Ecology
• Chapter 45 Foreword: The First Word: Guiding Principles for Gender Equity
• Chapter 46 Contemporary Female Identities in the Global South
• Chapter 47 I Remember, Therefore I Am
• Chapter 48 About the Exhibition
• Chapter 49 Declaration: A Pacific Feminist Agenda
• Chapter 50 Empowerment: Art and Feminisms – Introduction
• Chapter 51 Introduction: The Personal Is Political
• Index of Artists
• Index of Curators
• Index
• EULA