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- Title
Towards a Weak Avant-Garde, Re-Shaping the Canon.
- Authors
Majewska, Ewa
- Abstract
Feminist discussions in art history usually focus on the exclusion of women artists and the reification of women's bodies. A growing constellation of queer and feminist theorists today, however, analyse failure and cuteness as aspects of contemporary feminist avant-garde practices, suggesting that alternative currents in art practice and theory are emerging that challenge traditional notions and modes of art production. In my article, I discuss these debates in relation to "weak universalism" and weak messianism in order to reshape our understanding of avant-garde theory and practice from a feminist perspective. I argue that feminist analysis transforms what was previously thematized as conditions of exclusion into an important part of artistic legacy in works made by previously excluded groups. I propose that the concept of a weak avant-garde might help to theorize these shifts.
- Subjects
EUROPE; FEMINISM; ART history; ART theory; FEMINIST criticism; WOMEN artists; FEMINIST art; SOCIAL marginality
- Publication
Arts (2076-0752), 2023, Vol 12, Issue 2, p70
- ISSN
2076-0752
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/arts12020070