Beschreibung

While much feminist philosophy is enjoying third- and fourth-wave developments and can build on its scholarly roots forged in the 1960 s and 1970 s, feminist contributions have taken what seems an exceptionally long time to break into the stubborn areas of aesthetics and philosophy of art. Some feminist scholars might reasonably consider aesthetics to be a back-burner issue: if we take feminism mainly to be a movement seeking equality and strategies to address social, economic, and political inequities, views on art practices or values have tended to seem less important than work in the sister area of feminist social and political theory.
The truth is, however, that areas of aesthetic value, political value, ethical value even scientific value and religious value intersect in meaningful and complex ways, both in practices of oppression and liberatory strategies. The authors in this volume explore the connections between these value spheres that are too often separated. Feminist Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art: The Power of Critical Visions and Creative Engagement addresses this dearth in the field, and seeks to build on those prior foundational perspectives in feminist aesthetics / philosophy of art. This volume is particularly timely, as it gathers work from scholars who have been able to both build on and offer internal feminist critiques of the previous groundwork.

Inhaltsangabe

From the contents:

Tentative: Introduction; L. Ryan Musgrave

Section I Turning this Century: Frameworks in Feminist Aesthetics Today

The End of Feminist Aesthetics?; Joanne Waugh and Jennifer Ingle

What Is / Isn t Feminist Art?; Sheila Lintott

The Feminist Art Project: its Significance for Feminist Aesthetics; Peg Brand

Restyling the Museum in Feminist Theory; Hilde Hein

Section II: Feminist Aesthetics and Epistemology: Judgments, Interests, Knowledge and Knowers

Who s Afraid of Aesthetic Universalism?; A. W. Eaton

A Feminist Critique of Disinterestedness; Katy Deepwell

The Aesthetics of Ignorance: Feminist Embodiment and the Sensory Grounds of Difference; Monique Roelofs

The Beauty in the Beast: A Pragmatist Feminist Reconstruction of Scientific Aesthetic; Nancy Arden McHugh

Possibly: The Aesthetic Subject and Humean Sympathies; Amy M. Schmitter and Leah A. Spencer

Section III: Current Themes in Feminist Aesthetics
a. Embodiment

Female Painters Remake the Female Nude: Feminist Reflections on the State of the Art; Diana Tietjens Meyers

Two Painting Women: Lisa Yuskavage and Kiki Smith; Mary Wiseman

Possibly: Feminist Dramaturgy on the Great White Way; Jennifer Cavenaugh

b. Moral Imagination

Feminist Ethics: A Bearing on Aesthetic Judgments; Judit Torok

Feminism`s "Exact Imagination": The Negative Dialectical Subtext of Sally Potter s The Tango Lesson; Regina Cochrane

Possibly: Trust, Art and Imagination; Amy Mullin

c. Nature and the Environment

Feminism, the Sublime, and Environmentalism; Bonnie Mann

Holly Lane`s Portrayal of Mary Magdalene as a Proto-Ecofeminist; Ruth Porritt

d. Artistic Autonomy and Commodification

Feminist Politics and the Culture Industry: Adorno Critique Revisited; Lambert Zuidervaart

"What you see is (more than) what you see": Kantian Disinterest, Minimalism, and Feminist Art; Hilary Davis

Feminist Art Objecting: Artistic Autonomy in the work of Nancy Spero and Ida Applebroog; L. Ryan Musgrave

Section IV: Beyond Western Feminist Aesthetics

Fatima Sadiqi Berber Women s Weavings: a Mixture of Visual Art and Agency

No more than two of the following:

"Race, Gender, and Stereotypes: the Aesthetics of Pop-Orientalism from the Odalisque to Abu Ghraib; Amanda Rogers
Re-veiling Maya: Shirin Neshat and Trinh T. Minh-ha on Veiling, Islamic Feminisms, and the Aletheic Euro-ethnic Gaze; Ashley Pryor
Making the Fetish Studying Women's Performances the Middle East and North Africa; Laura C. Box
Beauty as A Philosophy of Mind: Confucian Aesthetics and Its Feminist Modality; Eva Kit Wah Man
Early Feminist Aesthetics in Japan: Murasaki Shikibu, Sei Shonagon, and A Thousand Years of the Female Voice; Mara Miller

Index

Bibliography

Klappentext

While much feminist philosophy is enjoying third- and fourth-wave developments building on its scholarly roots forged in the 1960's and 1970's, feminist theoretical work has taken what seems an exceptionally long time to break into the stubborn areas of aesthetics and philosophy of art. Aesthetics may seem like a back-burner issue generally, if we understand feminism mainly as a social justice movement seeking equality and solutions to socioeconomic, political, and cultural inequities. Framed this way, theories and practices concerning artistic production and / or engagement may seem less pressing or useful than, say, work in the sister area of feminist social and political theory.
The truth, however, is that aesthetic value, political value, ethical value (ven scientific value and religious value) intersect in meaningful and complex ways, both in oppressive practices and liberatory strategies. The essays in Feminist Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art: Critical Visions, Creative Engagements address this dearth in the field, and explore connections between these too-often-separated value spheres while drawing on and offering critiques of work in traditional philosophical aesthetics.  Accessible for graduates and advanced undergraduates, the collection is especially relevant in areas of sociopolitical philosophy, ethics, phenomenology, epistemology, critical social theory and cultural studies. It is a rich resource for feminist scholars across all disciplines, and will also interest a general educated popular audience curious about art, feminism, practices of creative engagement, and with ways these interact or contrast with daily life.