50% OFF ALL E-BOOKS • Use code ebook in the shopping cart

Browse

Skip to content

Books
Authors
Subjects
Series
Museums & Partners
Contact
About Us
Offers

Books

Authors

On The Site

Advanced Search

Home
art
Women Artists Together

Women Artists Together

Women Artists Together

Art in the Age of Women's Liberation

Imprint: Yale University Press

264 Pages, 171.00 x 244.00 mm, 100 color + b-w illus.

Hardcover

Hardcover
9780300270044
Published: 10 October 2023

£35.00

Download Cover

Request inspection copy

Print

Description
Authors
Praise

A fresh perspective on collaboration, collectivity, and conflict in the women’s art movement of the 1970s

Women Artists Together is a thought-provoking study of how the women’s liberation movement galvanized a generation of women artists. It offers a fresh perspective on the history of the women’s art movement and considers how it was shaped by collaboration and togetherness. Retracing 1970s liberation politics, Amy Tobin emphasizes how artworks emerged from—and contested—feminist paradigms and contexts.

Taking class, gender, race, and sexuality as central concerns, the book includes examples of inspirational feminist activism as well as fallings out, disagreements, and antagonism. Across four chapters, Tobin looks at the work of UK- and US-based artists including Judy Chicago, Mary Beth Edelson, Rose English, Harmony Hammond, Candace Hill-Montgomery, Claudette Johnson, Suzanne Lacy, Howardena Pindell, Ingrid Pollard, Carolee Schneemann, Cecilia Vicuña, and Kate Walker. Groups include the Feminist Art Programme at Cal Arts, Women’s Workshop of the Artists’ Union, Where We At, Black Women Artists Inc., and the South London Art Group, publications such as Heresies and Chrysalis, along with writers and curators including Lucy R. Lippard and Arlene Raven.

Amy Tobin is an academic and curator at the University of Cambridge, where she is associate professor in the Department of History of Art, curator, Contemporary Programmes at Kettle’s Yard, and fellow of Newnham College.

“Women Artists Together is critically nuanced and expansive in the modes of thinking with and through the complexities of feminist art histories that it offers and provokes.”—Harriet Curtis, Women: A Cultural Review

“This is an urgent, important book. Tobin explores the productive, sometimes uncomfortable, moments where solidarity, collectivity and conversation met disagreement and difference as artists working in the USA and UK sought to forge new communities and ways of working, thinking, and living together.”—Jo Applin, author of Lee Lozano

“Tobin’s work rescues women’s artistic subjectivity from the tomb of historical erasure without essentialism, she writes about 'women artists' as a political category – noting the complexity and nuance in their work with care, with generosity, and an unmatched theoretical precision.”—Lola Olufemi, author of Feminism, Interrupted

“Amy Tobin offers a fluent, readable and important history of complex groupings, intense debates, diverse artworks and agonistic cultures of difference that formed the historic moment when art was transformed by a new consciousness—the Women’s Liberation Movement. This new political energy collided with all that was new and exciting, critical and challenging in post-1968 art practice: performance, moving image, photography, installation, conceptual practice, and most radically, the dynamic of collaboration and collective art making and a confrontation with differences and their often painful, but always creative, challenges.”—Griselda Pollock, University of Leeds

Related Books

Dora Carrington

Tamara de Lempicka

Made in Germany?

Women Artists in Denmark 1880-1910

Draw Them In, Paint Them Out

Ancient Thrace and the Classical World

The Dance of Life

Inspection Copies

Course and Order Information

Inspection copies are books under consideration as required or recommended reading for an upcoming course. Print book inspection copies are only available for certain textbooks. Please choose the eBook inspection copy option if you need your inspection copy quickly (particularly if you are based outside the UK - print books can be subject to shipping and customs delays and, in some cases you may need to pay an import fee to receive your book).

Requested Title

Book Title

ISBN

Email *

Address *

Address Line 1

Address Line 2

City

State / Province / Region

Postal Code

Country

Telephone Number *

Adoption Information

Bookshop stocking your course texts

Current textbook (title and author) *

Number of copies being requested *

Course Details

Course number and title *

Course level *

Undergraduate
Postgraduate
Secondary School
Other

Course level: Other *

Please enter your Course level

Course frequency *

Start date *

Number of students *

How did you hear about this book? *

Yale UP website
Yale UP catalogue
Yale UP email newsletter
Yale UP conference stand
Google
Amazon
Social Media
I read a review
I saw it on the shelf at a bookshop
It was recommended to me
Other

Why did you request an inspection copy of this book? *

The online description
The content aligns with my syllabus
I read a sample online
The title
The cover
Someone recommended it to me
I read a review
The endorsements
I know the author / editor
I am already familiar with this title
Other

Comment

Additional information

Sign up to the Yale newsletter for book news, offers, free extracts and more

Tel: +44(0)20 7079 4900
Email: [email protected]

Column
Column

© 2024 Yale University Press London. All Rights Reserved.

Powered by Supadu

We are using cookies to give you the best experience on our website.

You can find out more about which cookies we are using or switch them off in .

Powered by GDPR Cookie Compliance

Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings.

Enable or Disable Cookies

If you disable this cookie, we will not be able to save your preferences. This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again.