About the Book
This book explores the work and careers of women, trans, and third-gender artists engaged in political activism. While some artists negotiated their own political status in their indigenous communities, others responded to global issues of military dictatorship, racial discrimination, or masculine privilege in regions other than their own. Women, trans, and third-gender artists continue to highlight and challenge the disturbing legacies of colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, communism, and other political ideologies that are correlated with patriarchy, primogeniture, sexism, or misogyny. The book argues that solidarity among such artists remains valuable and empowering for those who still seek legitimate recognition in art schools, cultural institutions, and the history curriculum.
Table of Contents:
Part 1: Introduction.- 1 The Dinner Party in the Twenty-First Century: Setting a Larger Table for Women and Non-Binary/Third Gender Artists - Kyunghee Pyun, Associate Professor of History of Art at the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, USA.- Part 2: Countering Colonialism.- 2 Native Feminisms and Contemporary Art: Indigeneity, Gender, and Activism - Elizabeth S. Hawley, Visiting Assistant Professor in Art History/Visual Culture at Northeastern University, USA.- 3 Disrupting the Silence: Australian Aboriginal Art as a Political Act - Fiona Foley, PhD, artist, founding member of Boomalli Aboriginal Artist Co-operative, Australia.- Part 3: Against the Establishment.- 4 “Insanity Prize”: Postwar Feminist Art in Cold War East Asia - Sooran Choi, Assistant Professor of Asian Studies at New York University, USA.- 5 From NonConformism to Feminisms: Russian Women Artists from the 1970s to Today - Natalia Kolodzei, curator and art historian, Executive Director of the Kolodzei Art Foundation, Russia.- 6 Liminal Space of Artnauts: Global Women Artists Historicize the DMZ in the Korean Peninsula - Joo Yeon Woo, Associate Professor of painting and mixed media at the University of South Florida’s School of Art and Art History, USA and Sandy Lane, Associate Professor and Drawing Coordinator at Metropolitan State University of Denver, USA.- 7 From South Africa to Afghanistan and America: An Exploration of Female Street Artists and the Socially Disruptive Nature of their Work - Deborah Saleeby-Mulligan, PhD, Associate Professor of Visual Studies and Art History at Manhattanville College, USA.- Part 4: Dislocation and Migration.- 8 Yong Soon Min’s Defining Moments Heartland: Gendered Space of Decolonization in the Pacific - Soojung Hyun, PhD, independent curator, USA.- 9 Sited Nomadism from theAtlantic to West Africa: Addoley Dzegede - Ila Nicole Sheren, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Art History & Archaeology in Washington University in St. Louis, USA.- 10 Alterity in Germany: Occupying Spaces as Feminist Strategy in (Post)Migration Aesthetics - Parastou Forouhar, professor of Fine Arts at the Art Academy of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and artist, Germany, and Cathrine Bublatzky, PhD, Assistant Prof at Heidelberg University, Germany.- 11 Maria Jose Arjona, Into the Woods: From Fairytales to Political Interactions in South America - Jennifer Burris, PhD, director of Athenée Press, Colombia, and Maria Jose Arjona, performance artist, Colombia.- Part 5: Race and Gender Identity.- 12 Blurring Lines/Breaking Barriers: Harlem and Beyond, the International Photographer Ming Smith - Gillian Hannum, Professor of Visual Studies and Art History at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York, USA.- 13 Queer Craft and Radical Cuts: Transgenderism and the Malay-Muslim Body in the Work of Anne Samat - Louis H. Ho, independent curator, art historian and critic, Singapore.- 14 Halo Rossetti on Visually Representing the Intricacies of Queer and Trans Life - Halo Rossetti, writer, director, performer, and artist, USA.- 15 The Future is more than Female: Post-Feminist, Trans-Feminism, and the Performance of Identity - Ace Lehner, PhD, artist, art historian and visual culture scholar, USA.
About the Author :
Gillian Hannum is Professor Emerita of Visual Studies and Art History at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York, where she served on the faculty from 1987 to 2021. A photographic historian with M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from The Pennsylvania State University, she has published on photographic topics in the Journal of the Royal Photographic Society, History of Photography, and Nineteenth Century, has contributed to several books and exhibition catalogs, and has presented papers or chaired panels at a number of conferences.
Kyunghee Pyun is Associate Professor of History of Art at the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York. She wrote Fashion, Identity, Power in Modern Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and will publish School Uniforms in East Asia: Fashioning Statehood and Self in 2022. As an independent curator, she has collaborated withcontemporary artists for exhibitions such as Violated Bodies: New Languages for Justice and Humanity. Pyun co-edited Interpreting Modernism in Korean Art: Fluidity and Fragmentation (Routledge, 2021) and American Art in Asia: Artistic Praxis and Theoretical Divergence (Routledge, 2022).
