Book ID: CBB145854372

Science, technology, and utopias : women artists and Cold War America (2017)

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Filippone, Christine (Author)


Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group


Publication Date: 2017
Edition Details: Book series: Science and the arts since 1750
Physical Details: xiii + 204
Language: English

The rise of proxy wars, the Space Race, and cybernetics during the Cold War marked science and technology as vital sites of social and political power. Women artists, historically excluded from these domains, responded critically, while simultaneously redeploying the products of "Technological Society" into works that promoted ideals of progress and alternative concepts of human community. In this innovative book, author Christine Filippone offers the first focused examination of the conceptual use of science and technology by women artists during and just after the women's movement. She argues that artists Alice Aycock, Agnes Denes, Martha Rosler and Carolee Schneemann used science and technology to mount a critique on Cold War American society as they saw it-conservative and constricting. Motivated by the contemporary American Women's Movement, these artists transformed science and technology into new modes of artmaking that transgressed modernist, heroic, painterly styles and subverted the traditional economic structures of the gallery, the museum and the dealer. 0At the same time, the artists also embraced these domains of knowledge and practice as expressions of hope for a better future. Many found inspiration in the scientific theory of open systems, which investigated "problems of wholeness, dynamic interaction and organization", enabling consideration of the porous boundaries between human bodies and their social, political and nonhuman environments. Filippone also establishes that the theory of open systems not only informed feminist art, but also continued to influence women artists' practice of reclamation and ecological art through the twenty-first century.

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Review Charlie Gere (April 2021) Review of "Science, technology, and utopias : women artists and Cold War America". Technology and Culture (pp. 590-591). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Laakkonen, Simo
Angela Megan Sells
Rogers, Rebecca
Pál, Viktor
Dennis P. Slattery
Myriam Boussahba-Bravard
Concepts
Feminism
Women
Science and gender
Cold War
Medicine
Women and health
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
21st century
Places
United States
Latin America
Great Britain
Brazil
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