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Otherworlds brings together the work of two American artists from different generations_Nancy Spero and Kiki Smith. The book explores thematic connections in their work_the female body, myth and fantasy, the "decorative_" and situates them in the context of post-War American art and social movements, and feminist and cultural theory.

Both artists reclaim the female body as an expressive vehicle of emancipation and desire, and both employ fantasy and decoration to subversive ends. Spero_s work explores the potential recording of space and architecture through a visual poetics of word and image. Kiki Smith treats the body in/as process, creating iconic female figures that threaten to revert to a fluid or skeletal state.

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This digital document is an article from Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine, published by Parachute Contemporary Art on October 1, 2001. The length of the article is 586 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Nancy Spero; Jana Sterbak (exposition).
Author: Therese St Gelais
Publication: Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2001
Publisher: Parachute Contemporary Art
Volume: 104Issue: 10-12Page: 4 (suppl)

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Galvanized by the political events of the Vietnam War, Nancy Spero dedicated herself for five years to creating a group of gouache paintings on paper, entitled The War Series. In these works, Spero not only expressed her rage at the violence and oppression of the war, but also introduced many of the images and themes that would continue to find their place in her work, and anticipated the post-modern aesthetic of fracture, dissonance, and collage. This volume is the first to analyze The War Series in depth, and its publication could not, unfortunately, be more timely.

Essays by Leon Golub and Robert Storr.

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As early as the 1960s, Nancy Spero's work was breaking ranks with the establishment. Her unique pictorial vocabulary and insistent political engagement was a far cry--and a loud cry--from the styles of abstraction that dominated the American art world at that time. She articulated and has continued to drive at themes of burning interest to her: protest against the Vietnam War, the alienation of society and violence against women, for example against Jewish woman under National Socialism and in the historical contexts of witch hunts. A Continuous Present pairs her War Series (1966-70), a cycle of anti-Vietnam War gouaches, with an overview of her work from the last decade. Between 1992 and 2001, Spero created infinite-seeming works on long horizontal and vertical bands of paper--a format borrowed from Egyptian papyrus rolls, Chinese scroll painting and antique friezes--populating them with female figures taken from mythology, various epochs and diverse cultures, giving them feminist momentum via highly charged or parodistic confrontations. Essays by Ingebord Kähler, Dirk Luckow, Susanne Altmann and Deborah Frizell. Hardcover, 8 x 12 in./108 pgs / 63 color 0 BW0 duotone 0 ~ Item D20041 ... Read more