Amy Tobin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3742257 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy Tobin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy |
| FAMILY NAME | Tobin |
| SIGNATURE | TOBIN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Women Artists Together
Women Artists Together
Candace Hill‐Montgomery, Against Containment
This essay focuses on the work of New York‐based artist and poet Candace Hill‐Montgomery. In 1979, Hill‐Montgomery described her work as changing ‘the containment we all live within’, pointing both to the social and political investments of her practice, and to her formal transition from making art in her studio to making installations in public, often from found materials and detritus. Her desire for recognition and understanding across differen…
Heresies’ Heresies
In the 1970s magazines, journals and periodicals constituted an alternative public sphere for second wave feminism. These publications provide an index—and at times the only documentation—of the activities of the women’s art movement as well as its many iterations and divisions. This article addresses this imbalance, arguing that Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics (1977–1992) was exemplar of the radical political challenge femin…
Rose Garrard in conversation with Amy Tobin and Catherine Elwes. Bude, Cornwall, 4 August 2016
Homesickness
There is a short story titled ‘The Walk’ by the American writer Lydia Davis, which riffs on a passage from Marcel Proust’s Swann’s Way.1 In the story a Proust scholar is visiting Oxford for a conference. She describes walking through the city, attempting to trace passages at the edge of her memory. But on her final evening she is met by another conference participant. Their dinner is spent in arch, sometimes competitive discussion, particularly a…
The Work of Feminist‐Influenced Art History
Women's Images of Men' Seminar ICA
Moving pictures
This article traces the intersections and overlaps between women working in art, avant-garde film and cinema in the 1970s. I argue that the context of second-wave feminism connected individuals working in diverse practices through shared interrogations of form and content as well as the interdisciplinary infrastructure of the women's movement. However, I also consider the impact of different contexts, communities and media on artwork, film and vi…
An Unfinished Revolution in Art Historiography, or how to Write a Feminist art History
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An Unfinished Revolution in Art Historiography, or how to Write a Feminist art History
Women's Images of Men' Seminar ICA
Moving pictures
This article traces the intersections and overlaps between women working in art, avant-garde film and cinema in the 1970s. I argue that the context of second-wave feminism connected individuals working in diverse practices through shared interrogations of form and content as well as the interdisciplinary infrastructure of the women's movement. However, I also consider the impact of different contexts, communities and media on artwork, film and vi…
The Work of Feminist‐Influenced Art History
Homesickness
There is a short story titled ‘The Walk’ by the American writer Lydia Davis, which riffs on a passage from Marcel Proust’s Swann’s Way.1 In the story a Proust scholar is visiting Oxford for a conference. She describes walking through the city, attempting to trace passages at the edge of her memory. But on her final evening she is met by another conference participant. Their dinner is spent in arch, sometimes competitive discussion, particularly a…
Rose Garrard in conversation with Amy Tobin and Catherine Elwes. Bude, Cornwall, 4 August 2016
Heresies’ Heresies
In the 1970s magazines, journals and periodicals constituted an alternative public sphere for second wave feminism. These publications provide an index—and at times the only documentation—of the activities of the women’s art movement as well as its many iterations and divisions. This article addresses this imbalance, arguing that Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics (1977–1992) was exemplar of the radical political challenge femin…
Women Artists Together
Women Artists Together
Candace Hill‐Montgomery, Against Containment
This essay focuses on the work of New York‐based artist and poet Candace Hill‐Montgomery. In 1979, Hill‐Montgomery described her work as changing ‘the containment we all live within’, pointing both to the social and political investments of her practice, and to her formal transition from making art in her studio to making installations in public, often from found materials and detritus. Her desire for recognition and understanding across differen…
Art (6 works) · History (6 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Feminism (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (3 works)