Gender, Artwork and the Global Imperative

Angela Dimitrakaki is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Edinburgh

• Introduction: Capital, gender and the work of art: an intervention of, and in, materialist feminism1. Feminist politics and art history: from ‘postmodernism’ to ‘global capitalism’2. The gender issue: lessons from post-socialist Europe3. Travel as (gendered) work: global space, mobility and the ‘woman artist’4. Gendered economies and knowledge production: Ursula Biemann’s video essays and materialist feminism for the twenty-first century5. Masculinity and the economic subject in contemporary art6. Acting on power: critical collectives, curatorial visions and art as lifePostscript: what is a feminist beginning?BibliographyIndex

'Angela Dimitrakaki is a writer and researcher who is not afraid to ask challenging questions and grapple with difficult and important issues in contemporary culture. Based on extensive and probing research, her work prompts us to join her inquiring mind in investigating areas beyond the usual well-trodden paths and familiar names.'Gen Doy, Professor Emerita, Faculty of Art and Design at De Montfort University|'Dimitrakaki's study reinvigorates and tests the theoretical and moral articulation of Marxism and feminism most vividly developed in Griselda Pollock's writings of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Critically acute, persistent in its interrogations and varied in its discussions of art by women, and some men, the book combines a 'pessimism of the intellect' with an 'optimism of the will' (and good humour) that ameliorates the social and political crisis at the centre of her concerns.'Jonathan Harris, Professor of Global Art and Design Studies at Winchester School of Art, author of The New Art History: A Critical Introduction and editor of Globalization and Contemporary Art