Telling stories about feminist art

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4828898
AutoresMichelle Meagher (0000-0002-4898-4315, University of Alberta, autor correspondente)
Ano2011
Volume12
Fascículo3
Páginas297-316
Data de publicação2011-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoFeminist Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1464700111417669
OpenAlexW1966475695
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas24

Responding to a recent surge of interest in feminist art, its futures, and its history, this article considers the nature and function of the dominant narratives that circulate and structure the field. Specifically, I explore the persistent story of inter-generational strife in which a first generation of artists and historians is understood to have been naïvely mired in an essentialism of which a second, more theoretically savvy generation has been subsequently cleansed. Although one would be hard pressed to identify contemporary scholars who promote this sort of generationally bound progress narrative, the story persists. Its persistence, I argue, has less to do with its truth telling ability and more to do with its ability to perform the function of disidentification

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Essentialism · Futures contract · Literature · Narrative · Sociology · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · Historical Education Studies Worldwide · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Philosophy