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Author: Kathy Battista File Type: epub What makes art feminist art? There can be no essential feminist aesthetic, argues Kathy Battista in this exciting new art history, although feminist artists do have a unique aesthetic. Domesticity, the body, its traces, and sexuality have become prominent strands in contemporary feminist practice but where did these preoccupations begin and how did they come to signify a particular type of art? Kathy Battistas (re-)engagement with the founding generation of female practitioners centers on 1970s London as the cultural hub from which a new art practice arose. Emphasizing the importance of artists including Bobby Baker, Anne Bean, Catherine Elwes, Rose English, Alexis Hunter, Hannah OShea, and Kate Walker, and examining works such as Mary Kellys Post-Partum Document, Judy Clarks 1973 exhibition Issues and Cosey Fanni Tuttis Prostitution, shown in 1976, Kathy Battista investigates some of the most controversial and provocative art from the era.*Primarily concerned with the feminist body as site for making and exhibiting works, this book examines themes that look at the body as material, the body and performance, as well as the alternative creative platforms in 1970s feminist art. Drawing on original material - never-before-seen images from artists personal collections and commissioned interviews with prominent artists from the period - the book is an invaluable resource for artists, researchers, curators and students interested in recovering this period from the margins of art history.* hr

Author: Perry Nodelman File Type: pdf This book is about the implications of novels for young readers that tell their stories by alternating between different narrative lines focused on different characters. It asks if you make sense of fiction by identifying with one main character, how do you handle two or more of them? Do novels with alternating narratives diverge from longstanding conventions and represent a significant change in literature for young readers? If not, how do these novels manage to operate within the parameters of those conventions? This book considers answers to these questions by means of a series of close readings that explore the structural, educational and ideological implications of a variety of American, British, Canadian and Australian novels for children and for young adults. **

Author: Alison Isenberg File Type: pdf A major new urban history of the design and development of postwar San Francisco Designing San Francisco is the untold story of the formative postwar decades when U.S. cities took their modern shape amid clashing visions of the future. In this pathbreaking and richly illustrated book, Alison Isenberg shifts the focus from architects and city plannersthose most often hailed in histories of urban development and designto the unsung artists, activists, and others who played pivotal roles in rebuilding San Francisco between the 1940s and the 1970s. Previous accounts of midcentury urban renewal have focused on the opposing terms set down by Robert Moses and Jane Jacobsput simply, development versus preservationand have followed New York City models. Now Isenberg turns our attention west to colorful, pioneering, and contentious San Francisco, where unexpectedly fierce battles were waged over iconic private and public projects like Ghirardelli Square, Golden Gateway, and the Transamerica Pyramid. When large-scale redevelopment came to low-rise San Francisco in the 1950s, the resulting rivalries and conflicts sparked the proliferation of numerous allied arts fields and their professionals, including architectural model makers, real estate publicists, graphic designers, photographers, property managers, builders, sculptors, public-interest lawyers, alternative press writers, and preservationists. Isenberg explores how these centrally engaged arts professionals brought new ideas to city, regional, and national planning and shaped novel projects across urban, suburban, and rural borders. San Franciscos rebuilding galvanized far-reaching critiques of the inequitable competition for scarce urban land, and propelled debates over responsible public land stewardship. Isenberg challenges many truisms of this renewal eraespecially the presumed male domination of postwar urban design, showing how women collaborated in city building long before feminisms impact in the 1970s. An evocative portrait of one of the worlds great cities, Designing San Francisco provides a new paradigm for understanding past and present struggles to define the urban future. **Review Winner of the 2018 PROSE Award for Architecture & Urban Planning, Association of American Publishers Isenberg, a professor of history at Princeton University, dug deep to capture the transitional years when the citys establishment was on the verge of being altered by cultural forces that it could not control. . . . Designing San Francisco deepens our understanding of how todays landscape came to be--and the bullets we dodged along the way.---John King, *San Francisco Chronicle* Designing San Francisco is an outstanding contribution to the growing literature on the City by the Bay, and is indeed one of the finest books in recent memory about American city building in the postwar period.---Ocean Howell, *American Historial Review* The urban historian Alison Isenbergs Designing San Francisco is, among its many other virtues, a vital text for helping landscape architects think through this dilemma. . . . Isenberg is a clear and engaging writer who is both transparent and persuasive in presenting her own angle on the story. . . . Designing San Francisco is a vital critique of the standard narrative of design authorship.---Justin Parscher, *Landscape Architecture Magazine* Alison Isenbergs Designing San Francisco explores a series of controversies from the 1940s through the 1970s, decades when activists, artists, environmentalists, and preservationists challenged establishment approaches to land use, public sculpture, and urban redevelopment in the Bay Area. Her fascinating book is essential reading for anyone interested in the politics of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design.Dolores Hayden, Yale University, author of *The Power of Place Urban Landscapes as Public History* Designing San Francisco makes a major contribution to the history and practice of urban planning and architecture. Probing deeply into how urban plans are worked out on the ground by a broad cast of city builders, Isenberg offers the first serious and persuasive alternative to the longstanding binary opposition between the partisans of Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses.Mary P. Ryan, author of *Mysteries of Sex Tracing Women and Men through American History* Masterful and compelling.Julia L. Foulkes, author of *To the City Urban Photographs of the New Deal* From the Back Cover Alison Isenbergs Designing San Francisco explores a series of controversies from the 1940s through the 1970s, decades when activists, artists, environmentalists, and preservationists challenged establishment approaches to land use, public sculpture, and urban redevelopment in the Bay Area. Her fascinating book is essential reading for anyone interested in the politics of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design.--Dolores Hayden, Yale University, author of *The Power of Place Urban Landscapes as Public History* Designing San Francisco makes a major contribution to the history and practice of urban planning and architecture. Probing deeply into how urban plans are worked out on the ground by a broad cast of city builders, Isenberg offers the first serious and persuasive alternative to the longstanding binary opposition between the partisans of Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses.--Mary P. Ryan, author of *Mysteries of Sex Tracing Women and Men through American History* Masterful and compelling.--Julia L. Foulkes, author of *To the City Urban Photographs of the New Deal*