Search and Destroy: Nancy Spero’s War Series, 1966–70

Q1 Social Sciences

Cultural Politics Pub Date : 2020-03-01 DOI:10.1215/17432197-8017298

Deborah Frizzell

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Abstract

Abstract:This article is an analysis of artist-activist Nancy Spero’s War Series paintings, 1966–70. The author analyzes her paintings from this crucial time period within the context of significant historical events that impacted her artistic development of themes, formal devices, and radical breaks from numerous canonical art tenets. Within the emergence of the American political and artistic Left, Spero’s political radicalism became the foundation of her artistic content and studio practice. From this foundation, as an early feminist artist, Spero produced a wide-ranging figurative oeuvre that pioneered a new lexicon of image/text and figure/ground conjunctions, overturning the prescriptive universalist ideals of modern art.

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搜索与破坏:南希·斯佩罗的战争系列，1966-70

摘要:本文分析了艺术家、活动家南希·斯佩罗(Nancy Spero) 1966-70年的战争系列绘画。作者在重大历史事件的背景下分析了她在这一关键时期的画作，这些事件影响了她的主题，形式装置的艺术发展，并彻底打破了许多规范的艺术原则。在美国政治和艺术左派的兴起中，斯佩罗的政治激进主义成为她的艺术内容和工作室实践的基础。在此基础上，作为一名早期女权主义艺术家，斯佩罗创作了广泛的具象作品，开创了图像/文本和人物/背景结合的新词汇，推翻了现代艺术的规范普遍主义理想。

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Cultural Politics Social Sciences-Cultural Studies

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期刊介绍： Cultural Politics is an international, refereed journal that explores the global character and effects of contemporary culture and politics. Cultural Politics explores precisely what is cultural about politics and what is political about culture. Publishing across the arts, humanities, and social sciences, the journal welcomes articles from different political positions, cultural approaches, and geographical locations. Cultural Politics publishes work that analyzes how cultural identities, agencies and actors, political issues and conflicts, and global media are linked, characterized, examined, and resolved. In so doing, the journal supports the innovative study of established, embryonic, marginalized, or unexplored regions of cultural politics. Cultural Politics, while embodying the interdisciplinary coverage and discursive critical spirit of contemporary cultural studies, emphasizes how cultural theories and practices intersect with and elucidate analyses of political power. The journal invites articles on representation and visual culture; modernism and postmodernism; media, film, and communications; popular and elite art forms; the politics of production and consumption; language; ethics and religion; desire and psychoanalysis; art and aesthetics; the culture industry; technologies; academics and the academy; cities, architecture, and the spatial; global capitalism; Marxism; value and ideology; the military, weaponry, and war; power, authority, and institutions; global governance and democracy; political parties and social movements; human rights; community and cosmopolitanism; transnational activism and change; the global public sphere; the body; identity and performance; heterosexual, transsexual, lesbian, and gay sexualities; race, blackness, whiteness, and ethnicity; the social inequalities of the global and the local; patriarchy, feminism, and gender studies; postcolonialism; and political activism.