Faith Wilding's Fearful Symmetries
With Faith Wilding Edited by Shannon R. Stratton
Publication date:
29 March 2019Publisher
Intellect BooksISBN-13: 9781789380613
Deeply influenced by studies of female iconology, the medieval, the subconscious and hybrid bodies, Faith Wilding's art is instantly recognisable. In keeping with Wilding's own artworks, this book is a bricolage: memoirs and watercolours sit alongside critical essays and family photographs to form an overall history of both Wilding's life and works as well as the wider feminist art movement of the 1970s and beyond.
This collection spans fifty years of Wilding's artistic production, feminist art pedagogy and participation in, and organising of, feminist art collectives, such as the Feminist Art Program, Womanhouse, Womanspace Gallery and the Woman's Building. Featuring contributions from scholars and artists, including Amelia Jones, the book is the first of its kind to celebrate the career of an artist who helped shape the feminist art of today. Intimate, philosophical and insightful, Faith Wilding's Fearful Symmetries is a beautiful book intended for artists, scholars and a broader audience.
'This book is a profound and delightful fusion of the personal and the political. Wilding's unique childhood, her activism and her lovely, poetic but pointed art is investigated through the lens of critical feminism she has helped to construct.'