Book Description
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.
Otherworlds: The Art of Nancy Spero and Kiki Smith FROM THE PUBLISHER
The specially commissioned essays in Other Worlds explore thematic connections in their work - the female body, myth and fantasy, the sacred and profane, the decorative - in the context of post-Second World War American art and social movements, and feminist and cultural theories.
Nancy Spero and Kiki Smith are prominent artists from different generations who have turned vulnerability into strength. They make art that represents the body, but in forms that avoid objectification or narcissism and that speak to the universal without idealization or reduction. Working with and against the signs of meaning that constitute art's language, they trace the disposition and expressivity of the body across imaginative visual worlds of emancipation and desire.
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