Can I read Martha Wilson : staging the self on EtoBox?

Martha Wilson : staging the self by Peter Dykhuis; Jayne Wark; Martha Wilson; Dalhousie University; Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery; Exhibition is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Martha Wilson : staging the self about?

Martha Wilson is an American feminist who began her career in the early 1970s at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Working in the male-dominated Conceptualist milieu of the time, Wilson generated pioneering photographic and video work that explored her female subjectivity through role playing and invasions of male and other female personas. After moving to New York City in 1975, she further developed her performative and video-based practice in founding and directing Franklin Furnace, an artist-run centre dedicated to the exploration and promotion of innovative installation, performance and time-based art practices. This publication chronicles Wilson's journey from the virtual isolation of her early work to the transformative experience of working with then-unknown artists like Jenny Holzer and Shirin Neshat in a socially-engaged feminist art practice that defied and challenged established artistic and political values.

Author

Peter Dykhuis; Jayne Wark; Martha Wilson; Dalhousie University; Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery; Exhibition

Publisher

Halifax, N.S.: Dalhousie Art Gallery

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780770300289

Subjects

Art, Arts