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Read n.paradoxa's Guide to Feminist Art, Art History and Criticism
Current volume:
Trans-Asia
(vol 29, Jan 2012)
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Next volumes
Feminist Aesthetics
(vol 30, July 2012)
Africa
(vol 31, Jan 2013)
Previous volumes
Biopolitics
(vol 28, July 2011)
Women's Work
(vol 27, Jan 2011)
Feminist Pedagogies
(vol 26, July 2010)
Pleasure
(vol 25, Jan 2010)
If you would like to submit an article on contemporary women’s art practices (visual arts only, women artists working post-1970) or an aspect of feminist art theory, an interview with a woman artist or a feature to n.paradoxa, please contact the editor. Do not send finished articles. Articles are commissioned through negotiation with the editor: Katy Deepwell. email: katy@ktpress.co.uk
Please send, well in advance of the copy deadline, an outline (1-2 paragraphs) and a short resume (1 page only). Please also outline the relation of your proposal to the theme of a particular volume.
Volume 30: Feminist Aesthetics (July 2012)
(Copy deadline: 1 May 2012, to be published July 2012)
After forty years of feminist art practices around the world which are neither media-specific nor have a single aesthetic (in the limited modernist sense of an identifiable "style"), how can we redefine feminist aesthetics in its relation to feminist politics today? This volume will explore questions about feminist aesthetics, art and politics and welcomes contributions which look at new and progressive lines of enquiry in these longstanding debates (even when revisiting previous formulations or arguments since the 1970s). These may touch on 'aesthetics in the feminine' and 'feminist philosophical critiques of aesthetic theory' (but the latter will only be accepted, where the primary examples used in discussion are feminist artworks (visual arts only)). Feminist critiques of aesthetic theory have drawn on and developed in relationship to post-structuralist and post-colonialist theories and contributions bringing together discussions of race, class, sexualities and ethnicities or nationalisms will also be welcomed, alongside critiques of neoliberalism.
Volume 31: Africa and its diasporas (Jan 2013)
Guest Editor: Bisi Silva, Director CCA, Lagos
(Copy deadline: 1 Nov 2012, to be published Jan 2013)
Contributions offering a pan- or trans-African perspective on contemporary women artists (visual arts only, post-1970) will be welcomed from women artists or writers (art historians, critics and curators). The aim of the volume is to look at women artists’ production across the 50 countries that make up the continent of Africa as well as at African women artists working in Europe, South and North America and the Caribbean. The African diaspora is diverse stretching across the Atlantic to Brazil, the Caribbean, and back again across Europe and the Americas. Contributions about contemporary art produced by women which reflect on the effects of the migration of African people around the world - during and after slavery - during and after Colonialism – pre- and post-1960s Independence – will be welcomed. In the last two decades, there has been an exponential growth in the visibility of a new generation of women visual artists on or from the continent of Africa as well as a diversification not only in the medium but also in the breadth and complexity of the themes and issues with which they engage, including the body, sexuality as well as questions of history, culture, patriarchy and post-colonialism. Women artists from Africa, and of African descent, have been producing work which questions and challenges both their contemporary situation and their complex histories. This special volume will publish work which addresses these concerns and focuses on the cultural production of women artists who define themselves as black/African/Afro-Caribbean/Afro-American across the globe as well as first/second/third/and even fourth generations of immigrants in different countries.
Volume 32: Citizenship (July 2013)
(Copy deadline: 1 May 2013, to be published July 2013)
Volume 33: Religion (Jan 2014)
(Copy deadline: 1 Nov 2013, to be published Jan 2014)
KT press, publishers of n.paradoxa, are planning a new book series on feminist art theory and the work of contemporary women artists (visual arts only, post-1970) – for late 2011 into 2012. This new series could be characterised as a return to the 18th century tradition of pamphleteering – with a modern digital twist and an ISBN!
It is intended that each book in the series will be an e-book, sold and circulated at low cost as PDFs, from KT press’ website. Each book will contain around 40 pages of text and images. The first series will contain 5-10 books.
KT press holds the view that feminism in relation to the visual arts is a contentious subject but it is also an open question about the relationship between art, aesthetics and politics which needs to be debated, especially with regard to the work of women artists. Authors must specify which feminist ideas they are engaging with and where their views of feminism originate. New perspectives and a critical consideration of the legacy of feminism will be valued in selecting this series.
The aim of the series is to publish books containing:-
a) collected conference papers or panel discussions on or about feminist art
b) translations of writings about feminist art from any language into English for the first time (with commentaries).
c) discussions of a single woman artist’s work by one or several authors including documentation of their projects (where no monograph exists)
d) collected writings / performance scripts / art notes by a woman artist on art and her practice (Poems will not be considered).
e) new polemics about feminist-art-theory and feminist art criticism arising from a single author or a discussion between feminists.
f) essays engaging in future thinking about feminism in the visual arts or written as new manifestos for the future.
g) extended discussions of curation or exhibitions as forms of feminist reading or praxis or essays written bringing together works to form virtual exhibitions “of our wishes”.
Ideas developed from theses (MA to PhD) will be considered but authors are asked not to send the thesis itself, only a summary of the key arguments and a description of the subject. Women who have not published a book before are encouraged to apply, if they are prepared to develop their ideas in co-operation with the publisher.
Ideas based in post-structuralist approaches to language, psychoanalysis and social critique of art and politics, cyberfeminist thinking, exploring new art forms, feminist post-colonial critiques, feminisms of the North and South/ East and West, approaches to global diasporas in contemporary art, issue-based political thinking about questions of social justice in relation to contemporary art are all welcome.
KT press operates as a not-for-profit company. Fees to authors will be paid and a royalty on copies sold. This project is supported by a grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in New York. Potential authors should write to Katy Deepwell at KT press, sending an outline of their idea for an e-book. katy@ktpress.co.uk