Self-Portrait - Paperback
by Carla Lonzi
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Carla Lonzi, Allison Grimaldi DonahuePublish date:2022-02-15Pages:300
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Divided PublishingISBN-13:9781916425088ISBN-10:1916425089UPC:9781916425088Book Category:Art, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Art & Politics, Criticism & Theory, FeministSize:8.40 x 5.50 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.1Product ID:SCJWKNNJVQ
Recorded and transcribed throughout the 1960s, Carla Lonzi's Self-portrait ruptures the linear tradition of art-historical writing. Lonzi first abolishes the role of the critic, her own, seeking change over self-preservation by theorising against the act of theorising. This is the voice of feminist experimentalism in Italian art and literature, and here Lonzi speaks for herself in English. Self-portrait montages her verbatim conversations with fourteen prominent artists working at the time, all men except one. Lonzi's vital feeling that it was impossible to respond professionally to the political and existential problems embedded in the production and distribution of artworks drives the book's contingent structure. Artmaking struck Lonzi as the invitation to be together in a humanly satisfying way. This first English translation brings Lonzi's final work of criticism before her break with 'art' to an international audience. Her uncompromising enactment and pragmatic drop-out discontinues the narration of postwar modern art in Italy and beyond.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Divided PublishingISBN-13:9781916425088ISBN-10:1916425089UPC:9781916425088Book Category:Art, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Art & Politics, Criticism & Theory, FeministSize:8.40 x 5.50 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.1Product ID:SCJWKNNJVQ
Lonzi, Carla: - Carla Lonzi (b. 1931, Florence; d. 1982, Milan) was an art critic and feminist activist best known for her work with Rivolta Femminile, a feminist collective created in 1970. Following the publication of Autoritratto ('Self-portrait') in 1969, Lonzi published Manifesto di Rivolta femminile (1970), Sputiamo su Hegel. La donna clitoridea e la donna vaginale e altri scritti (1974) and Taci, anzi parla. Diario di una femminista (1977). Due to her uncodified practice, she occupies a singular position within postwar Italian politics and art, and is a crucial figure of European feminism.Grimaldi Donahue, Allison: - Allison Grimaldi Donahue (b. Middletown, Connecticut) is the author of Body to Mineral (Publication Studio Vancouver, 2016) and the co-author of On Endings (Delere Press, 2019). Her writing and translations have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Words Without Borders, Flash Art, BOMB, NERO and Tripwire, and her performances have been presented in Italy at Gavin Brown's enterprise, MAMbo, MACRO and Short Theatre. She is a 2021-22 resident of Sommerakademie Paul Klee, Bern. She lives in Bologna.
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