Art labor, sex politics : feminist effects in 1970s British art and performance /

Contrary to critics who have called it the "undecade," the 1970s were a time of risky, innovative art-and nowhere more so than in Britain, where the forces of feminism and labor politics merged in a radical new aesthetic. In Art Labor, Sex Politics Siona Wilson investigates the charged rel...

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Main Author: Wilson, Siona, 1970-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, 2014
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Sex-Politics
  • Nightcleaners: The Ambiguities of Activism and the Limits of Production
  • The Spectator as Reproducer: Mary Kelly's Early Films
  • Prostitution and the Problem of Feminist Art: The Emergent Queer Aesthetic of COUM Transmissions
  • Revolting Photographs: Proletarian Amateurism in Jo Spence and Terry Dennett's Photography Workshop.