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Mary Kelly

Mary Kelly

Nixon, Mignon

Paperback

Series: October Files, Book 20

Art HistoryIndividual Artists

ISBN10: 0262529327
ISBN13: 9780262529327
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Sep 16 2016
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Essays and interviews that span Mary Kelly's career highlight the artist's sustained engagement with feminism and feminist history.

When Mary Kelly's best-known work, Post-Partum Document (1973-1979), was shown at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London in 1976, it caused a sensation--an unexpected response to an intellectually demanding and aesthetically restrained installation of conceptual art. The reception signaled resistance to the work's interrogation of feminine identity and the cultural mythologizing of motherhood. This volume of essays and interviews begins with this foundational work, offering an early statement by the artist, a subsequent interview, and an essay situating the work within a broader broader discourse of art and social purpose in the early 1970s. Throughout, the collection addresses such themes as labor, war, trauma, and the politics of care, while emphasizing the artist's sustained engagement with histories of feminism and generations of feminists.

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