Counterpractice : Psychoanalysis, Politics and the Art of French Feminism
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Rethinking Art's Histories
ISBN-10
1526191644
ISBN-13
9781526191649
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Imprint
Manchester University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 20th, 2026
Print length
512 Pages
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This groundbreaking book highlights a generation of women who made art as a way of defining a culture of experimental thought and practice, against the backdrop of the French women’s movement or Mouvement de Libération des Femmes (1970–81) -- .
Counterpractice highlights a generation of women who used art to define a culture of experimental thought and practice during the period of the French womens movement or Mouvement de Libération des Femmes (197081). It considers womens art in relation to some of the most exciting thinkers to have emerged from the French literature and philosophy of the 1970s Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva forcing a timely reconsideration of the full spectrum of revolutionary practices by women in the years following the events of May 68. Lavishly illustrated with over 200 images, the book also features an illuminating foreword by art historian Griselda Pollock.
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