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In Visible Archives : Queer And Feminist Visual Culture In The 1980s
No full text"Analyzing how 1980s visual culture provided a vital space for women artists to theorize and visualize their own bodies and sexualities
In 1982, the protests of antiporn feminists sparked the censorship of the Diary of a Conference on Sexuality, a radical and sexually evocative image-text volume whose silencing became a symbol for the irresolvable feminist sex wars. In Visible Archives documents the community networks that produced this resonant artifact and others, analyzing how visual culture provided a vital space for women artists to theorize and visualize their own bodies and sexualities.
Margaret Galvan explores a number of feminist and cultural touchstones—the feminist sex wars, the HIV/AIDS crisis, the women in print movement, and countercultural grassroots periodical networks—and examines how visual culture interacts with these pivotal moments. She goes deep into the records to bring together a decade’s worth of research in grassroots and university archives that include comics, collages, photographs, drawings, and other image-text media produced by women, including Hannah Alderfer, Beth Jaker, Marybeth Nelson, Roberta Gregory, Lee Marrs, Alison Bechdel, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Nan Goldin.
The art highlighted in In Visible Archives demonstrates how women represented their bodies and sexualities on their own terms and created visibility for new, diverse identities, thus serving as blueprints for future activism and advocacy—work that is urgent now more than ever as LGBTQ+ and women’s rights face challenges and restrictions across the nation. " -- Publisher's Website
Who Was Who Was Who In Canadian Contemporary Art = Qui était qui était qui dans l'art contemporain canadien
No full text"This dictionary by John Latour is the result of extensive research through artist files in the Artexte print collection, which aimed to identify and document artists who made or make art through artist personas and under pseudonyms." -- Publisher's websit
Flamma
No full text" Western life, as vivid and challenging as it may be, comes with struggles and the daily grind. It also instills a state of mind primarily occupied by trivialities and stiffness, where tomorrow must be gained and present living is replaced by the act of acquiring. A delusional, never-ending race with a finish line well tucked into the abyss.
Such is life, we say.
And as a result, a few questions arise... Why is life getting simpler the more we tend towards the tropics?
And why, as we progressively rove away from the endless summer, do we also slowly wander away from the essence of life?
Undoubtedly, the caring sun is magical for humankind. Somehow, it pulls us into a mindful existence where the human connection becomes a necessity, entangling compassion and joy. [...] " -- p.[3] of documen