Counterpractice - Psychoanalysis, Politics and the Art of French Feminism

This groundbreaking book highlights a generation of women who made art as a way of defining a culture of experimental thought and practice, against the backdrop of the French women's movement or Mouvement de Libération des Femmes (1970-81)

List of contents

Introduction
1 May '68 to the MLF
2 The MLF 1970s
3 The body in pieces
4 Psychoanalysis and politics
5 Women's art groups and collectives
6 Subversive practices: from écriture féminine to soft art
Conclusion
Index

About the author

Rakhee Balaram is Assistant Professor of Global Art and Art History at State University of New York-Albany

Summary

This groundbreaking book highlights a generation of women who made art as a way of defining a culture of experimental thought and practice, against the backdrop of the French women’s movement or Mouvement de Libération des Femmes (1970–81) -- .

Product details

• Authors: Rakhee Balaram, Balaram Rakhee
• Assisted by: Marsha Meskimmon (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9781526125163
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-2516-3
• No. of pages: 480
• Series: Rethinking Art's Histories
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; France, HISTORY / Europe / France, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Feminism & feminist theory, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Feminism and feminist theory, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)