Radical Decadence
Excess in Contemporary Feminist Textiles and Craft
This pioneering book explores the notion of 'radical decadence' as concept, aesthetic and lived experience, and as an analytical framework for the study of contemporary feminist textile art. Gendered discourses of decadence that perpetuate anxieties about women's power, consumption and pleasure are deconstructed through images of drug use, female sexuality and 'excessive' living, in artworks by several contemporary textile artists including Orly Cogan, Tracey Emin, Allyson Mitchell, and Rozanne Hawksley.Perceptions of decadence are invariably bound to the negative connotations of decay and degradation, particularly with regard to the transgre…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4725-6943-1
- EAN: 9781472569431
- Produktnummer: 22454942
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 144 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 4'942 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Abbildungen: 16 colour and 24 bw illus
Über den Autor
Julia Skelly teaches in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Skelly is the author of Addiction and British Visual Culture, 1751-1919 (2014) and the editor of The Uses of Excess in Visual and Material Culture, 1600-2010 (2014).
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