Spaces of self-consciousness
Carla Accardi's environments and the rise of Italian feminism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4517049 |
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| Authors | Leslie Cozzi (0000-0002-5129-2846, University of Virginia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 67-88 |
| Publication date | 2011-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women & Performance a journal of feminist theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0740-770X • E-ISSN: 1748-5819 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0740770x.2011.563037 |
| OpenAlex | W2085030353 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
“Spaces of self-consciousness” examines three environments created by the Italian artist Carla Accardi in light of an emerging feminist politics. Though better known as a painter, Accardi created these three-dimensional works during an era of political and social upheaval in which her own commitment to the Italian feminist movement began to take shape. Her environments were deeply imbricated both with her own experience of autocoscienza, or consciousness-raising, as well as with radical design proposals that rejected the current state of civilization. This article examines how these environments functioned as prototypes of the transient, anti-institutional spaces that she would later create as co-founder of Rivolta femminile, a historic Italian feminist collective, and examines a previously obscure moment in Carla Accardi's career
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Civilization · Collective unconscious · Consciousness · Epistemology · Feminism · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Philosophy · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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