This book analyses how three artists – Adrian Piper, Nancy Spero and Mary Kelly – worked with the visual dimensions of language in the 1960s and 1970s.
Table of Content
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Writing the “I” otherwise: telegraphing black feminism in the work of Adrian Piper and Angela Davis
1. Adrian Piper’s textual address
2. Letters from an imaginary enemy, Angela Davis
Part II: Typing the poetry of monsters: Nancy Spero and Valerie Solanas write aggression
3. Writing the drives in Nancy Spero’s Codex Artaud
4. Valerie Solanas’ S.C.U.M. Manifesto and the texts of aggression
Part III: Hieroglyphs of maternal desire: the collaborative texts of Mary Kelly and Laura Mulvey
5. Rewriting maternal femininity in Mary Kelly’s Post-Partum Document
6. Feminist desires and collective reading in the work of Laura Mulvey
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Dorothy C. Rowe is Senior Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Bristol
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