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Rachel Warriner is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art, UK, where her research focuses on the important contribution of activist collectives to the American feminist art movement during the 1970s. She has published widely on feminist art and poetry.
Pain and Politics in Postwar Feminist Art is a timely account of the aesthetics and ethics of pain as a physical, social, and psychic force. Warriner's richly contextual analysis presents a compelling new picture of the work of Spero and of pain as a crucial subject and strategy for feminist and anti-war art and activism. * Lucy Bradnock, Reader in Modern and Contemporary Art and Vice-Dean for Research, The Courtauld Institute of Art, UK * Pain and Politics in Postwar Feminist Art not only offers a fresh take on the work of Nancy Spero, but a methodological intervention in the study of political art. The focus on pain offers a framework for understanding empathy, representation and affect, while Warriner's close attention to the psychic, the embodied and the social give much needed nuance to the feminist refrain the personal is political . * Amy Tobin, Assistant Professor, History of Art, University of Cambridge, UK *
