05 Feb 2010

n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal

n.paradoxa – international feminist art journal
Volume 25 (Jan 2010) Out Now!

Editor: Katy Deepwell
'Why pleasure? Surely, this is an apolitical category. Something personal, gratuitous, superficial, selfish even. Is the concept of pleasure just an excuse for decadence! Why should feminists question or think about pleasure as an idea in the visual arts? If all we are doing is looking for pleasure, in the sense of personal gratification, what will it say about our politics? Or will it just be a sign of the lack of them and our adherence to the desires of late consumer capitalism or neo-liberalism?.... This volume tries to expand the idea of pleasure as a multiple and diffuse set of forms: the pleasure of the text, the pleasure invested in vision, the pleasure of the senses, pleasure in our physical experience of the world around us, pleasure postponed in utopian visions of the future, the emptiness of certain decadent forms of pleasure, pleasure in contemplation and reflection on small and everyday details, pleasure in drawing how we feel and articulating what we believe in, pleasure in a job well done or an achievement…' Katy Deepwell, editorial, Volume 25, n.paradoxa

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Contents, volume 25:

Kathryn Brown 'Disruption and Delight: Dara Birnbaum's Experiments with Sensory Pleasure'
Lisa E. Bloom and Betti-Sue Hertz 'What Keeps Mankind Alive? 11th Istanbul Biennial (12 Sept-8 Nov 2009)'
'Esther Ferrer' interviewed by Alba Braza
Jennifer S. Musawwir 'I'd like to become a subscriber! Feminist Art Journals in the US, 1970-1980'
Astrid Peterle 'The Performances of Mette Ingvartsen: the pleasures of depersonalized bodies, bouncing trampolines and evaporated landscapes'
Artist's Pages: Michelle Handelman 'Dorian - a cinematic perfume'
Molly Reed 'Nearest Spaces and Remembered Selves: Feminism and the Paintings of Emily Eveleth'
Ming Turner 'Cyborgs and Pleasure: An exploration of Art Works by Liu Shih-Fen, Lin Tsai-Shuan and Kuo Hui-Chan'
Frances Loeffler 'Ending the Matter without the Matter Ending: jouissance and the work of Sofia Hultén'
Estelle Nabeyrat 'State of play: on Elles@centre pompidou'
Gudrun Ankele 'Learning from the Dildo: Postporn Political Practices'
Lesley Ferris 'Bobby Baker's Diary Drawings: Mental illness and me, 1997- 2008'
Photographic features on two feminist shows: 'And Now: Female Artists from the GDR' (Kunstlerhaus Bethanian, Berlin) and 'Gender Check' (MUMOK, Vienna)
Katarzyna Czeczot Book Review: 'Female Brickmakers in Brave New World'

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What is n.paradoxa?

n.paradoxa is the only international feminist art journal in the world!
It has two forms – print and online - with different content in each – and different issns.
n.= noun , para = beyond, doxa = taught or accepted opinion.
The print journal – founded in January 1998 – has 25 volumes in print and is only available in print form.
Each volume is thematic. In 12 years, n.paradoxa has published in-depth scholarly articles, interviews and features on the work of more than 240 women artists in over 54 countries across the world!
The online journal – web.ukonline.co.uk/n.paradoxa - has now archived as pdf's over 1000 pages from its 20 issues since Dec 996.
n.paradoxa publishes the work of women writers, curators, artists and critics of contemporary art (post-1970) who write about the work of contemporary women artists and its relationship to feminist theory located anywhere in the world. It is a must-have for any serious scholarly work on contemporary women artists, feminist art criticism and feminist art history.

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Flexicover, English, 21 x 26 cm, 96 pages, price £9 inc. pp. individuals, £16 inc. pp. institutions/libraries
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n.paradoxa:international feminist art journal is published by
KT press
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London SE10 OAQ
UK
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Editor: Katy Deepwell k.deepwell@ukonline.co.uk
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