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  • Gestures: a body of work

Butler, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9834-2102, White, Hilary and Osborne, Nell, 2024, Book, Gestures: a body of work Manchester University Press, Manchester. ISBN forthcoming (In Press)

Abstract or Description:

Combining creative and critical methods, this cross-disciplinary collection contributes an original feminist investigation of embodied, affective, and political gesture in/as feminist art and writing. It considers and performs how gesture/s and feminism/s have animated one another in feminist and interdisciplinary artistic practices, contributing new theorizations of gesture, gender, sexuality, and embodiment, alongside revised histories of feminist art and literature. The book’s introductory essay “Writing Gesture” argues for a logic of in-betweenness that connects gesture, feminism, and interdisciplinarity. This new articulation of feminist practice is realized in the book’s innovative structure focused on ‘gestural’ stances, which contain transnational readings of artists and writers’ work from the 1960s onwards, as well dialogues between contemporary artists and writers.

Subjects: Creative Arts and Design > W100 Fine Art
Creative Arts and Design > W800 Imaginative Writing
Creative Arts and Design > W800 Imaginative Writing > W820 Poetry Writing
Creative Arts and Design > W800 Imaginative Writing > W830 Prose Writing
School or Centre: Research & Innovation
School of Arts & Humanities
Funders: AHRC, Terra Foundation for American Art, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies of British Art
Uncontrolled Keywords: Gesture; feminist art; feminist writing; embodiment; interdisciplinarity
Date Deposited: 15 Oct 2024 10:14
Last Modified: 15 Oct 2024 10:14
URI: https://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/id/eprint/5780
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