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Doing Feminism: Women’s Art and Feminist Criticism in Australia

Doing Feminism: Women’s Art and Feminist Criticism in Australia Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 2022, vol. 22, no. 2, 218–223 https://doi.org/10.1080/14434318.2022.2143761 EXTENDED REVIEW Doing Feminism: Women’s Art and Feminist Criticism in Australia. Anne Marsh, Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press, 2021, $199.99AUD, hardback. Doing Feminism: Women’s Art and Feminist Criticism in Australia (2021) is Anne Marsh’s ambitious national survey of art and writing about and alongside femin- ism. The book begins with the 1960s pre-rumblings of the second wave and ends in the 2010s—bypassing the first half of the twentieth century in favour of the extended period when feminism as a concerted theoretical, political and artistic project has been most impactful in Australia. The publication is comprehensive, featuring over 220 artists, and is lavishly illustrated, with hundreds of colour plates filling its glossy pages. If read as a politically chic coffee table book, Doing Feminism excels. It has a stylish, large-format design with a distinctive highlighter- yellow cover. Rather than slowly working through dense theory, readers can flick open to short (around 300 word) essays and enough feminist artworks to animate a thousand consciousness-raising circles. As a scholarly resource, the book is valu- able—it will serve as a good starting point for finding under-researched artists and as a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art Taylor & Francis

Doing Feminism: Women’s Art and Feminist Criticism in Australia

Hurst, Cameron
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art , Volume 22 (2): 6 – Jul 3, 2022
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Doing Feminism: Women’s Art and Feminist Criticism in Australia

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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 2022, vol. 22, no. 2, 218–223 https://doi.org/10.1080/14434318.2022.2143761 EXTENDED REVIEW Doing Feminism: Women’s Art and Feminist Criticism in Australia. Anne Marsh, Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press, 2021, $199.99AUD, hardback. Doing Feminism: Women’s Art and Feminist Criticism in Australia (2021) is Anne Marsh’s ambitious national survey of art and writing about and alongside femin- ism. The book begins with the 1960s...
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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 2022, vol. 22, no. 2, 218–223 https://doi.org/10.1080/14434318.2022.2143761 EXTENDED REVIEW Doing Feminism: Women’s Art and Feminist Criticism in Australia. Anne Marsh, Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press, 2021, $199.99AUD, hardback. Doing Feminism: Women’s Art and Feminist Criticism in Australia (2021) is Anne Marsh’s ambitious national survey of art and writing about and alongside femin- ism. The book begins with the 1960s pre-rumblings of the second wave and ends in the 2010s—bypassing the first half of the twentieth century in favour of the extended period when feminism as a concerted theoretical, political and artistic project has been most impactful in Australia. The publication is comprehensive, featuring over 220 artists, and is lavishly illustrated, with hundreds of colour plates filling its glossy pages. If read as a politically chic coffee table book, Doing Feminism excels. It has a stylish, large-format design with a distinctive highlighter- yellow cover. Rather than slowly working through dense theory, readers can flick open to short (around 300 word) essays and enough feminist artworks to animate a thousand consciousness-raising circles. As a scholarly resource, the book is valu- able—it will serve as a good starting point for finding under-researched artists and as a

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