Dissident Practices: Brazilian Women Artists, 1960s-2020s
Claudia Calirman
(Author)
Description
In Dissident Practices, Claudia Calirman examines sixty years of visual art by prominent and emerging Brazilian women artists from the 1960s to the present, covering the period from the military dictatorship to the return to democracy in the mid-1980s, the social changes of the 2000s, the rise of the Right in the late-2010s, and the recent development of an overtly feminist art practice. Though they were lauded as key figures in Brazilian art, these artists still faced adversity and constraints because of their gender. Although many of them in the 1960s and 1970s disavowed the term feminism, Calirman gives a nuanced account of how they responded to authoritarianism, engaged with trauma in the aftermath of the military dictatorship, interrogated social gender norms, and fought against women's objectification. By battling social inequalities, structures of power, and state violence, these artists create political agency in a society in which women remain targets of brutality and discrimination.
Product Details
Price
$26.95
$25.06
Publisher
Duke University Press
Publish Date
April 07, 2023
Pages
264
Dimensions
5.98 X 8.9 X 0.55 inches | 1.14 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781478019404
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Claudia Calirman is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Art and Music at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and author of Brazilian Art under Dictatorship: Antonio Manuel, Artur Barrio, and Cildo Meireles, also published by Duke University Press.
Reviews
"Calirman's use of the notion of resistance as the book's central throughline effectively grounds these artists' disparate works in a rich, nuanced, and concrete sociocultural context. We are presented, then, not with a narrow history of women's art, but rather with a much broader history of social resistance from the point of view of women artists. . . . This book's rich archive will plant the seeds of future research projects, and the unanswered questions that the book left me with will be soon taken up."--Megan A. Sullivan "Revista" (4/25/2023 12:00:00 AM)