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Feminist substances explores how artists used plastics to challenge normative ideas and sexist discourses in 1960s and 1970s art and society at large. Contesting the notion that industrial materials were primarily the domain of men artists, it considers how women engaged with plastics to address issues of social reproduction, motherhood, memory, desire and illness. The book argues that synthetic substances were uniquely suited to materialise feminist concerns because they were relatively new – and thus not predetermined by normative conventions – and related to the everyday. Structured around case studies of Carla Accardi, Lea Lublin and Alina Szapocznikow, it combines close readings of artworks with broader reflections on their social contexts in Italy, Argentina and France. Feminist substances makes a valuable contribution to the study of materiality in art, reconsidered through the lens of gender. Attending to questions of labour, value, and the hierarchies between art and commodities, it also examines the intersection of material and class. This richly illustrated book offers a singular look at materials that continue to shape and affect our everyday lives. It focuses on a period when plastics still held great promise, shortly before their demise in the wake of the oil price crises and growing awareness of their harmfulness. Discussing artworks and exhibitions as well as phenomena from everyday life, the book sheds light on the ambivalent meanings of plastics that still inform our complicated love-hate relationship with them.
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Keywords
- 1960s and 1970s Buenos Aires
- 1960s and 1970s Paris
- 1960s and 1970s Rome
- 20th-century art history
- Alina Szapocznikow
- Argentina
- Argentine military dictatorship
- Art in France
- Beato Angelico
- Carla Accardi
- Contemporary feminist art history
- Ecological impact of art
- exhibition history
- feminist art history
- Images of motherhood
- Industrial materials in art
- Italy
- Lea Lublin
- Lucy Lippard
- Materiality of plastics
- New materials and ancient techniques
- Pierre Restany
- Plastic weaving
- Plastics in sculpture
- Sicofoil
- thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DD Western Europe::1DDF France
- thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DS Southern Europe::1DST Italy
- thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1K The Americas::1KL Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America::1KLS South America::1KLSA Argentina
- thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999::3MPQ Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999::3MPQS c 1960 to c 1969
- thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999::3MPQ Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999::3MPQV c 1970 to c 1979
- thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AF The Arts: art forms::AFK Non-graphic and electronic art forms::AFKB Sculpture
- thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AF The Arts: art forms::AFW Textile artworks
- thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGA History of art
- Toxic art materials
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DOI: 10.7765/9781526193599Editions