Making our own art history

• Utgivningsdatum: 2027-02-16
• Mått: 170 x 240 x 15 mm
• Vikt: 457 g
• Format: Häftad
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 304
• Förlag: Manchester University Press
• ISBN: 9781526189899

• Konsthistoria
• Referensverk och tvärvetenskap
• Genusvetenskap

Victoria Horne is an Associate Professor (Reader) in Arts at Northumbria University

‘Victoria Horne’s work provides an invaluable blueprint for how to do periodical studies in close detail; much like the kit that the FAN collective circulated to prospective editors of the magazine, this important book will give its readers the tools needed to make their own histories of feminist art publishing.’—Samuel Bibby, Association for Art History‘Making our own art history is an effort to understand what happened to the women’s art movement. A remarkable example of expansive and original art historical research, the book examines how feminists built an infrastructure for social transformation in the 1970s that encompassed the independent art press. With Feminist Art News as its focus, the book reclaims the dialectic between then and today, capturing the historical materiality and challenges of the feminist struggle and its insurgent literacy.’—Angela Dimitrakaki, Professor of Contemporary Art Theory, University of Edinburgh‘Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Making Our Own Art History is an important contribution to the histories of feminist art and alternative publishing. Drawing on extensive archival research, oral histories, interviews, artworks, and ephemeral materials, Victoria Horne establishes Feminist Arts News's vital place in art history. With remarkable sensitivity and empathy, she reconstructs the social and material worlds of feminist publishing, capturing the labour, exhilaration, and transformative possibilities of this overlooked magazine. Her close attention to the material specificity of print—to paper, typography, collage, handwriting, even mistakes and typos—allows us to understand the magazine as a material and social practice rather than simply a container for texts and images. Her book is intellectually rigorous yet wonderfully alive, attentive to the messiness, contingency, and collectivity of history itself.’—Gwen Allen, Professor of Art History, San Francisco State University‘This is a significant book on the role Feminist Art News, as a grassroots publication, played in the formation of the feminist art movement that emerged in Britain in the 1980s. It is notable for its extensive archive work, amazing illustrations and, complemented by interviews with the editorial groups, artists, and wider networks, it captures the personal voices and memories of those involved. In the book we can feel the excitement, urgency and optimism of those earliest struggles to the more fractured 1990s, endorsing how feminist art production and feminist theoretical debates were not static but shifted and changed. This new book is a must for anyone who wants to appreciate the intricacies of the debates, actions and evolution of feminist art in this period.’—Sarah Edge, Emeritus Professor, Ulster University

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