A Companion to Feminist Art (Blackwell Companio, Robinson, Buszek^+

A Companion to Feminist ArtAuthor(s): Hilary Robinson, Maria Elena Buszek\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Wiley-Blackwell\nISBN-13: 9781118929155, 978-1118929155\nSynopsis\nOriginal essays offering fresh ideas and global perspectives on contemporary feminist art\n\n The term feminist art is often misused when viewed as a codification within the discipline of Art Historya codification that includes restrictive definitions of geography, chronology, style, materials, influence, and other definitions inherent to Art Historical and museological classifications. Employing a different approach, A Companion to Feminist Art defines art as a dynamic set of material and theoretical practices in the realm of culture, and feminism as an equally dynamic set of activist and theoretical practices in the realm of politics. Feminist art, therefore, is not a simple classification of a type of art, but rather the space where feminist politics and the domai.