Charlotte Mullins

A short and pithy introduction to the most important feminist artworks from the late 1960s to the present Emerging in the late 1960s as women artists struggled to "de-gender" their work to compete in a male-dominated arena, the feminist art movement has played a leading role in the art world over the last five decades. Using the "female gaze" to articulate socially relevant issues after an era of aesthetic "formalism," feminist artists, working in a variety of media, have brought attention to ideas surrounding gender, identity, and form. They have critiqued and altered our thinking about the cultural expectations and stereotyping of women, women's struggle for equality, and the treatment of the female body as a commodity. Fifty outstanding works reflect women's lives and experience, the changing position of women artists, and the impact of feminist ideals and politics on visual culture. This book is a celebration of one of the most ambitious, influential, and enduring artistic movements to emerge from the 20th century.

A Little Feminist History of Art

Little History of Art

"Painting People, edited by art historian and critic Charlotte Mullins, unites and contrasts the work of a key group of artists from around the world, and investigates their varied accomplishments with detailed commentaries that are accompanied by more than 200 reproductions of work primarily made within the past six years."--BOOK JACKET

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Painting people

A thrilling journey through 100,000 years of art, from the first artworks ever made to art’s central role in culture today. “A fresh take on art history as we know it.” (Katy Hessel, The Great Women Artists Podcast) Charlotte Mullins brings art to life through the stories of those who created it and, importantly, reframes who is included in the narrative to create a more diverse and exciting landscape of art. She shows how art can help us see the world differently and understand our place in it, how it helps us express ourselves, fuels our creativity and contributes to our overall wellbeing and positive mental health. Why did our ancestors make art? What did art mean to them and what does their art mean for us today? Why is art even important at all? Mullins introduces readers to the Terracotta Army and Nok sculptures, Renaissance artists such as Giotto and Michelangelo, trailblazers including Käthe Kollwitz, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, and contemporary artists who create art as resistance, such as Ai Weiwei and Shirin Neshat. She also restores forgotten artists such as Sofonisba Anguissola, Guan Daosheng and Jacob Lawrence, and travels to the Niger valley, Peru, Java, Rapa Nui and Australia, to broaden our understanding of what art is and should be. This extraordinary journey through 100,000 years celebrates art’s crucial place in understanding our collective culture and history.

A Little History of Art

Rebecca Salter

Karin Hanssen (°1960, Antwerpen) is beeldend kunstenaar, schrijver, onderzoeker in de kunsten en feministische activiste. Ze studeerde tekenkunst en schilderkunst aan de Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen en aan het Hoger Instituut (HISK) waar ze in 1993 afstudeerde. De tentoonstelling Returning the Gaze vertrekt van het idee van de spiegel, van herhaling door middel van appropriatie van fotografische beelden en van de blik van de ander (The Borrowed Gaze). Returning the gaze of de blik terugwerpen, beantwoorden is een tentoonstelling waarin de blik als sociaal masker, als spiegel van de ander een prominente plaats krijgt.00De tentoonstelling is, via een selectie werken van de afgelopen 25 jaar, een reis in de tijd door verschillende tijdvakken als de 17de eeuw en de jaren 50-70 van de vorige eeuw. In de recente reeks schilderijen met de titel 'Retu(r)ning the Gaze' neemt de vrouw en de blik een centrale plaats in. Uit de manier waarop vrouwen in beeld gebracht werden, kunnen we veel afleiden over de morele, sociale en maatschappelijke functie die zij opgelegd kregen. Het toont de omgang met moraal en de vrouw in het tijdvak waarin het beeld gemaakt werd. De beelden uit het verleden die Hanssen toont, zoeken een confrontatie op met de huidige blik op de mens in deze multiculturele maatschappij.00Exhibition: Kunsthal Helmond, The Netherlands (12.03.-10.06.2019) / De Garage, Mechelen, Belgium (22.06.-01.09.2019).

Karin Hanssen. Returning the Gaze

Kurt Jackson

Natural history and art have been life-long preoccupations of the leading British painter Kurt Jackson (b.1961). For this book, Jackson has returned to zoology, the subject he studied at university, to create a beautiful bestiary: a body of work about fauna. Combining stunning imagery with commentaries and poems written by the artist, the book boasts fascinating insights into Jackson's working life, and makes a perfect companion to both Kurt Jackson (2012) and Kurt Jackson Sketchbooks (2012/2014).

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