Counterpractice: Psychoanalysis, politics and the art of French feminism (Rethinking Art's Histories)

This groundbreaking book highlights a generation of women who made art as a way of defining a culture of experimental thought and practice, against the backdrop of the French women's movement or Mouvement de Libération des Femmes (1970-81). It views women's art in relation to some of the most exciting thinkers to have emerged from the French literature and philosophy of the 1970s - Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva - who are widely seen to represent the international brand of 'French feminism'. The artists in this book force a timely reconsideration of the full spectrum of revolutionary practices by women in the years that followed the events of May '68.

• | Author: Rakhee Balaram
• | Publisher: Manchester University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 08, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 480 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1526125161
• | ISBN-13: 9781526125163