Feminisms/Museums/Surveys

An Anthology

Hilary Robinson, Lara Perry

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2025
• Print ISBN:
  9781119897576
• eBook ISBN:
  9781119897583
• 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
• Table of Contents
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Acknowledgements
• On Feminisms, Museums and Surveys: An Introduction
• 1 Life Actually; the Works of Contemporary Japanese Women – Love and Solitude, and Laughter for Survival in Japan
• 2 The Accursed Rib
• 3 Introduction
• 4 The Eighth Square: Observations on an Exhibition Experiment
• 5 Art and Feminism: An Ideology of Shifting Criteria
• 6 Curators’ Preface
• 7 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: 86 Steps in 45 Years of Art and Feminism
• 8 Intimate Distance: Tracing Feminist Discourse in Indonesian Art*
• 9 The Benefit of Discord: Apropos of Gender Battle
• 10 “elles@centrepompidou”: Addressing Difference
• 11 Introduction
• 12 Proletarians of All Countries, Who Washes Your Socks? Equality, Dominance and Difference in Eastern European Art
• 13 The Feminist Present: Women Artists at MoMA
• 14 The Feminist Avant‐Garde: A Radical Transformation
• 15 The Will as a Weapon – Review 1970–1980*
• 16 The History of Women’s Art: Archives, Theories and Actual Artistic Practice
• 17 Dream and Reality: Modern and Contemporary Women Artists from Turkey
• 18 Tzena Ure’ena
• 19 This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s
• 20 Here and Now
• 21 Women Adventurers: Five Eras of Taiwanese Art, 1930–1983
• 22 The Beginning Is Always Today: Contemporary Feminist Art in Scandinavia
• 23 Joining the Ranks of the Invisible Struggle1
• 24 East Asia Feminism: FANTasia
• 25 Imagination Machine
• 26 MAGMA: A Revolt for Us
• 27 Introduction
• 28 Curatorial Statement
• 29 Body to Body: What Is Left?
• 30 Introduction
• 31 Irreconcilable Difference
• 32 From The Housewife to the Nana‐Maison: Domesticity as a Key Theme for Women Artists
• 33 Texts from the Auckland Art Gallery 2017
• 34 Unfinished Business
• 35 Gender, Empire and Decolonisation: Four Generations of Kazakh Women Artists
• 36 Niepodległe: Women, Independence and National Discourse
• 37 Why the Insurrection, Medea?
• 38 Rippers: Women, Affect and Desire, Between Figuration and Abstraction*
• 39 Kiss My Genders: A Conversation
• 40 Her Own Way ‐ Female Artists and the Moving Image in Art in Poland: From 1970s to the Present
• 41 Feminist Histories: Artists After 2000
• 42 Feminnale: 1st Feminnale of Contemporary Art
• 43 Performing Masculinities
• 44Earthkeeping/Earthshaking: Art, Feminisms and Ecology
• 45 Foreword
• 46 Contemporary Female Identities in the Global South
• 47 I Remember, Therefore I Am
• 48 About the Exhibition
• 49 Declaration: A Pacific Feminist Agenda
• 50 Empowerment: Art and Feminisms – Introduction
• 51 Introduction: The Personal Is Political
• Index of Curators
• Index of Artists
• Index
• End User License Agreement