Edited by Clément Dirié, Joanna Zielinska. Text by Alison Gingeras, Dorothy Iannone, Ana Mendoza Aldana, Joanna Zielinska.
Vibrant, colorful and explicit, Iannone’s work is a touchstone for 60 years of feminist art and theory
For more than six decades, Dorothy Iannone (1933–2022) represented ecstatic love, the union of gender, feeling and pleasure. Today, her oeuvre is widely recognized as one of the most provocative and fruitful bodies of work in recent decades in terms of the liberalization of female sexuality, and political and feminist issues. A narrative element fed with personal mythologies, experiences and feelings runs through all of her work, unified by her distinctive colorful and graphic style. As Fluxus artist Robert Filliou declared in 1972, “she is a freedom fighter, and a forceful and dedicated artist, skillfully blending imagery and text, beauty and truth. Her aim is no less than human liberation.” This publication sheds new light on the legendary artist’s practice by dealing specifically with her idiosyncratic takes on performativity and transdisciplinarity. New essays by Alison Gingeras, Ana Mendoza Aldana and Joanna Zielinska, together with a selection of texts written by Iannone, offer new approaches to celebrate her work and life.
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Featured spreads are from JRP|Editions’ exciting new book on the previously under-examined performative aspects of the legendary, ultra-liberated and often explicitly sexual Berlin-based American artist Dorothy Iannone, whose sometimes outrageously confessional artworks tackled themes like unconditional love, the celebration of matriarchy and the myth of Eros. M KHA curator Joanna Zielińska quotes the artist, from a 1970 Robert Filliou publication entitled Teaching and Learning as Performing Arts: “Never mind what they say about the nature of ecstasy, I’ve got a feeling one could limit oneself to such an extent that it would be possible half the time—and that’s like all the time. At thirty-six I am down to (in a passionate way) eating, drinking, sleeping, smoking, only the greatest friends, love and sex. Work is no longer a constant matter of being alive happily. It’s a method of expression waiting for those times when I am not being a beauty in other ways (today, for example).” continue to blog
FORMAT: Hbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 128 pgs / 75 color / 25 b&w. LIST PRICE: U.S. $35.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $50 GBP £30.00 ISBN: 9783037646090 PUBLISHER: JRP|Editions AVAILABLE: 8/20/2024 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: In stock TERRITORY: WORLD Excl FR DE AU CH
Published by JRP|Editions. Edited by Clément Dirié, Joanna Zielinska. Text by Alison Gingeras, Dorothy Iannone, Ana Mendoza Aldana, Joanna Zielinska.
Vibrant, colorful and explicit, Iannone’s work is a touchstone for 60 years of feminist art and theory
For more than six decades, Dorothy Iannone (1933–2022) represented ecstatic love, the union of gender, feeling and pleasure. Today, her oeuvre is widely recognized as one of the most provocative and fruitful bodies of work in recent decades in terms of the liberalization of female sexuality, and political and feminist issues. A narrative element fed with personal mythologies, experiences and feelings runs through all of her work, unified by her distinctive colorful and graphic style. As Fluxus artist Robert Filliou declared in 1972, “she is a freedom fighter, and a forceful and dedicated artist, skillfully blending imagery and text, beauty and truth. Her aim is no less than human liberation.” This publication sheds new light on the legendary artist’s practice by dealing specifically with her idiosyncratic takes on performativity and transdisciplinarity. New essays by Alison Gingeras, Ana Mendoza Aldana and Joanna Zielinska, together with a selection of texts written by Iannone, offer new approaches to celebrate her work and life.
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