Author: STILES, KRISTINE. NEUBERGER MUSEUM OF ART
Title: The deconstructive impulse : women artists reconfigure the signs of power, 1973-1991 / edited by Nancy Princenthal ; essays by Tom McDonough [and others]
Description: New York New York : Neuberger Museum of Art ; Munich ; DelMonico Books/Prestel 2011. First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new and still in the publisher's protective shrink-wrap.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 176 pages; Physical description; 176 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm. Notes; Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Neuberger Museum of Art. Purchase College. State University of New York. Purchase. 15 January - 3 April 2011; and at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Durham. North Carolina. 25 August - 5 December 2011. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Hot and cool : feminist art in practice / Helaine Posner -- In theory : postmodernism and polemics / Nancy Princenthal -- Feeling things : fetishism and the sex appeal of the inorganic / Tom McDonough -- Home alone : 'reversal of positions of presentation' and the visual semantics of domesticity / Kristine Stiles -- What women want : psychoanalysis and cultural critique / Griselda Pollock. Summary; Content advice: Explores the art by women artists of the 1970s and 1980s which clearly articulated the feminist motivations for deconstructivism and appropriationism. The practice of deconstructivism. a term describing artwork that examines the imagery of the popular media. was significantly shaped by dozens of important female artists during a critical era in late twentieth-century visual culture. These artists subverted their source material. often by appropriating it. to expose the ways that commercial images express imbalances of power. The mechanisms of power in mainstream art institutions were also subject to these artists' critique.Weight in Kg appr.:

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