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Item Number: 111140
Title: NANCY SPERO : Encounters
Author: Walker, Joanna S
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781409420439
Description: Aldershot: Asghate, 2011. 24cm., hardcover, 272pp., 87 b&w illus., 8 color plates. Summary: An original and valuable intervention in the fast-growing field of feminist and new art histories, Nancy Spero, Encounters offers a sophisticated interpretation of the work of a highly original and under-represented woman artist. The study proposes a new model of comparatism within the field of visual studies, mirroring and complementing Spero's dialogic manner of working. Basing her analyses on extensive research and multiple face-to-face interviews with the artist, Joanna Walker examines how a selection of the artists and art forms Spero cited offer significant points of comparison with her work. Walker presents Spero's encounters with the art of Ana Mendieta; with the poetry of the American poet H.D.; with the dance of Isadora Duncan; and, turning the lens back on Spero as subject, with the portraits of the artist by Abe Frajndlich. Also included are transcripts of Walker's interviews with the artist, and a listing of the books contained in Spero's personal library which informed her practice. Not only does this book cast well-deserved light on an artist who spent most of her career on the margins of the mainstream-it reverses genealogies and revises the traditional remit of the art historical monograph through both its structure and content. Contents: Introduction; The body is present even if in disguise; Bringing HD to this moment; Perhaps dance is the first language; Epilogue; Bibliography.
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