Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s by Princenthal, Nancy

Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s

The 1970s was a time of deep division and newfound freedoms. Galvanized by The Second Sex and...
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Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s by Princenthal, Nancy

Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s

¥4,808

Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s

¥4,808
Author: Nancy Princenthal
Format: Paperback
Language: English

The 1970s was a time of deep division and newfound freedoms. Galvanized by The Second Sex and The Feminine Mystique, the civil rights movement and the March on Washington, a new generation put their bodies on the line to protest injustice. Still, even in the heart of certain resistance movements, sexual violence against women had reached epidemic levels. Initially, it went largely unacknowledged. But some bold women artists and activists, including Yoko Ono, Ana Mendieta, Marina Abramovic, Adrian Piper, Suzanne Lacy, Nancy Spero, and Jenny Holzer, fired up by women's experiences and the climate of revolution, started a conversation about sexual violence that continues today. Some worked unannounced and unheralded, using the street as their theater. Others managed to draw support from the highest levels of municipal power. Along the way, they changed the course of art, pioneering a form that came to be called, simply, performance.

Award-winning author Nancy Princenthal takes on these enduring issues and weaves together a new history of performance, challenging us to reexamine the relationship between art and activism, and how we can apply the lessons of that turbulent era to today.



Author: Nancy Princenthal
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 07/26/2022
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.60w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780500296844

About the Author
Princenthal, Nancy: - Nancy Princenthal is a New York-based writer. A former senior editor of Art in America, where she remains a contributing editor, she has also written for the New York Times, Parkett, the Village Voice, and many other publications. She is currently on the faculty of the MFA art writing program at the School of Visual Arts. Her previous book, Agnes Martin, won 2016 PEN/ Jacqueline Bograd Weld award for biography.

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