Cindy Sherman
Untitled A 1975
© Cindy Sherman
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Session 1: Introduction
to the Themes of the Day
Speaker: Gill Perry, Senior Lecturer and Head
of Art History, The Open University.
Germaine Greer has described Kahlo as
'the first ever true performance artist'. Gill Perry considers this
claim in relation to recent debates about the meanings of performance
art, and in comparison with the activities of a later generation
of women artists, including the work of Carolee Schneemann, Ana
Mendieta and Hannah Wilke from the 1960s and 70s. She explores how
several women artists from this period appropriated performance
art to explore their own sexual identities, bodily experiences and
illness, to expose the limits of the category of 'art', and to reflect
on the relationships between viewers and artworks.
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Suggested Further Reading
- G .Perry (ed.), Difference and Excess in Contemporary Art:
The Visibility of Women's Practice, Blackwells, 2004
- G. Perry, 'The Expanding Field: Ana Mendieta's Silueta Series',
in Frameworks for Modern Art, Yale University Press, 2004
- G. Perry (ed.), Gender and Art, Yale University Press,
1999
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