Science, Technology, and Utopias

Women Artists and Cold War America

Christine Filippone

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Routledge
23 May 2019

The Arts: General & Reference

Series: Science and the Arts since 1750

"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. At 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."

By: Christine Filippone
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 226g
ISBN: 9780367199135
ISBN 10: 0367199130
Series: Science and the Arts since 1750
Pages: 204
Publication Date: 23 May 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Christine Filippone is Associate Professor of Art History, Millersville University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Reviews for Science, Technology, and Utopias: Women Artists and Cold War America

For this volume in a series titled Science and the Arts since 1750, Christine Filippone has carried out a prodigious amount of research that vividly re-creates some of the inspirational leaps between sources and creative output made by four exceptional artists, Alice Aycock (b. 1946), Carolee Schneemann (b. 1939), Agnes Denes (b. 1938), and Martha Rosler (b. 1943). ... This well-researched, ambitious book by Filippone will surely enlarge the public's understanding of significant art and concepts with which they may not be familiar. It will also be of value to insiders who have followed such developments. - Woman's Art Journal