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Counterpractice highlights a generation of women who used art to define a culture of experimental thought and practice during the period of the French women's movement or Mouvement de Liberation des Femmes (197081). It considers women's art in relation to some of the most exciting thinkers to have emerged from the French literature and philosophy of the 1970s Helene Cixous, Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva forcing a timely reconsideration of the full spectrum of revolutionary practices by women in the years following the events of May '68. Lavishly illustrated with over 200 images, the book also features an illuminating foreword by art historian Griselda Pollock.

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9781526125163

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'Counterpractice provides an ambitious survey of the events leading up to May '68 and an invaluable document of the women artists who were working in Paris at that time. Taken together with her careful account of the ground-breaking feminist theory that informed their activism, Rakhee Balaram has made an essential and lasting contribution to the field.' Mary Kelly, Judge Widney Professor, Roski School of Art and Design, University of Southern California -- .

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Rakhee Balaram is Assistant Professor of Global Art and Art History at State University of New York-Albany

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