Feminism and Art History Now

Victoria Horne is Senior Lecturer in Art & Design History at Northumbria University, UK. She was previously Teaching Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and Paul Mellon Centre Postdoctoral Fellow. Horne has published articles in Feminist Review, Radical Philosophy and Journal of Visual Culture. She established the Writing Feminist Art Histories research initiative in 2012 and edited a special issue of Women: A Cultural Review?on the theme 'Danger! Women Reading: Feminist Encounters with Art, History and Theory' in 2019.Lara Perry is Associate Dean for Education & Student Experience in the School of Humanities & Social Science at the University of Brighton, UK. She is the author of History's Beauties: Women and the National Portrait Gallery, 1856-1900 (2006) and co-editor of English Art, 1860-1914: Modern Artists and Identity (2000, with David Peters Corbett) and Politics in a Glass Case: Feminism, Exhibition Cultures and Curatorial Transgressions (2013, with Angela Dimitrakaki).

To what extent have developments in global politics, artworld institutions and local cultures reshaped the critical directions of feminist art historians? The significant research gathered in Feminism and Art History Now engages with the rich inheritance of feminist historiography since around 1970, and considers how to maintain the forcefulness of its critique while addressing contemporary political struggles.Taking on subjects that reflect the museological, global and materialist trajectories of 21st-century art historical scholarship, the chapters address the themes of Invisibility, Temporality, Spatiality and Storytelling. They present new research on a diversity of topics that span political movements in Italy, urban gentrification in New York, community art projects in Scotland and Canada's contemporary indigenous culture. Case studies focus on the art of Lee Krasner, The Emily Davison Lodge, Zoe Leonard, Martha Rosler, Carla Lonzi and Womanhouse. Together with a synthesising introductory essay, these case studies provide readers with a view of feminist art histories of the past, present and future.

Offers a broad overview of the trajectories of 21st-century art historical thought (materialist, museological and global), as well as the various local and global issues influencing feminist art historical enquiry in the present day

List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Feminism and Art History Now Victoria Horne and Lara PerryPART I. WRITING | SPEAKING | STORYTELLING1. An Unfinished Revolution in Art Historiography, or How to Write a Feminist Art History Victoria Horne and Amy Tobin2. I Want a Dyke for President: Sounding out Zoe Leonard's Manifesto for Art History's Feminist Futures Laura Guy3. 'Our Stories Are Our Life Blood': Indigenous Feminist Memory and Storytelling as Strategy for Social Change Cherry SmileyPART II. VISIBILITY | INTERVENTION | REFUSAL4. Making Visible Lee Krasner's Occupation: Feminist Art Historiography and the Pollock-Krasner Studio Andrew Hardman5. Challenging Feminist Art History: Carla Lonzi's Divergent Paths Giovanna Zapperi6. This Moment: A Dialogue on Participation, Refusal and History Making Angela Dimitrakaki and Lara PerryPART III. SPATIALITY | OCCUPATION | HOME7. The Salon Model: The Conversational Complex Elke Krasny8. Los Angeles, 1972/Glasgow, 1990: A Report on Castlemilk Womanhouse Hannah Hamblin9. If You Lived Here.: A Case Study on Social Reproduction in Feminist Art History Kirsten LloydPART IV. TEMPORALITY | GHOSTS | RETURNS10. Temporalities of the 'Feminaissance' Francesco Ventrella11. Gestures of Inclusion, Bodily Damage and the Hauntings of Exploitation in Global Feminisms (2007) Kimberly Lamm12. Learning and Playing: Re-enacting Feminist Histories Catherine GrantIndex