The feminist uncanny in theory and art practice /

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Author / Creator:Kokoli, Alexandra M., author.
Imprint:London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.
©2016
Description:1 online resource (xii, 224 pages)
Language:English
Series:Bloomsbury studies in philosophy
Bloomsbury studies in philosophy.
Subject:Feminism and the arts.
Feminist theory.
Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis)
Feminism and art.
Philosophy: aesthetics.
ART -- Subjects & Themes -- General.
Feminism and art.
Feminism and the arts.
Feminist theory.
Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis)
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12646186
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ISBN:9781472514028
1472514025
9781472505583
1472505581
9781472511393
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 19, 2016).
Other form:Print version: Kokoli, Alexandra M. Feminist uncanny in theory and art practice. New York : Bloomsbury, 2016 9781472511393
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Summary:The Feminist Uncanny in Theory and Art Practice investigates the widely debated, deeply flawed yet influential concept of the uncanny through the lens of feminist theory and contemporary art practice. Not merely a subversive strategy but a cipher of the fraught but fertile dialogue between feminism and psychoanalysis, the uncanny makes an ideal vehicle for an arrangement marked by ambivalence and acts as a constant reminder that feminism and psychoanalysis are never quite at home with one another. The Feminist Uncanny begins by charting the uncanniness of femininity in foundational psychoanalytic texts by Ernst Jentsch, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan and Mladen Dolar, and contextually introduces a range of feminist responses and appropriations by Hélène Cixous, Julia Kristeva and Sarah Kofman, among others. The book also offers thematically organised interpretations of famous artworks and practices informed by feminism, including Judy Chicago's Dinner Party , Faith Ringgold's story quilts and Susan Hiller's 'paraconceptualism', as well as less well-known practice, such as the Women's Postal Art Even (Feministo) and the photomontages of Maud Sulter. Dead (lexicalised) metaphors, unhomely domesticity, identity and (dis)identification, and the tension between family stories and art's histories are examined in and from the perspective of different artistic and critical practices, illustrating different aspects of the feminist uncanny.Through a 'partisan' yet comprehensive critical review of the fascinating concept of the uncanny, The Feminist Uncanny in Theory and Art Practice proposes a new concept, the feminist uncanny, which it upholds as one of the most enduring legacies of the Women's Liberation Movement in contemporary art theory and practice.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 224 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781472514028
1472514025
9781472505583
1472505581
9781472511393