Full Description
Deeply influenced by studies of female iconology, the medieval, the subconscious and hybrid bodies, Faith Wilding's art is instantly recognisable. In keeping with Wilding's own artworks, this book is a bricolage: memoirs and watercolours sit alongside critical essays and family photographs to form an overall history of both Wilding's life and works as well as the wider feminist art movement of the 1970s and beyond.
This collection spans fifty years of Wilding's artistic production, feminist art pedagogy and participation in, and organising of, feminist art collectives, such as the Feminist Art Program, Womanhouse, Womanspace Gallery and the Woman's Building. Featuring contributions from scholars and artists, including Amelia Jones, the book is the first of its kind to celebrate the career of an artist who helped shape the feminist art of today. Intimate, philosophical and insightful, Faith Wilding's Fearful Symmetries is a beautiful book intended for artists, scholars and a broader audience.
Contents
Faith Wilding, Memoirs Excerpt: Calling the World
Shannon R. Stratton, Coming to Becoming: An Introduction
Faith Wilding, Memoirs Excerpt: Drawing
Jenni Sorkin, Drawing through the Feminine
Amelia Jones, Faith Wilding and the Enfleshing Painting
Faith Wilding, Memoirs Excerpt: Reading
Faith Wilding and Elizabeth Hess, "As Faith Would Say..."
Keith Vaughn, Faith Wilding: Fearful Symmetries
Faith Wilding, Memoirs Excerpt: Born Pagan
Irina Aristarkhova, The One Who Waits
Mario Ontiveros, Imagining Solidarity Otherwise: Faith Wilding's Strategies for Writing, Making and Collaborating
Faith Wilding, Memoirs Excerpt: The Blue Flower
Daniel Tucker and Faith Wilding, Learning Together
Mira Schor and Faith Wilding, The Best and the Worst
Faith Wilding, Memoirs Excerpt: Fearful Symmetries
Shannon R. Stratton, Anlagen: An Afterword
Acknowledgments
Faith Wilding: Chronology
Contributor Biographies
