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Fearful Symmetries is an essential and long-overdue contribution to the history of feminist art that comprehensively examines the work of one of the movement's most important figures. This book does justice, finally, to Faith Wilding's wide-ranging, poetic, and politically-infused work with an intellectual approach and aesthetic sensibility that matches the richness of the artist's work. --Elissa Auther, Windgate Research & Collections Curator, Museum of Arts and Design and the Bard Graduate Center Rarely do we have the privilege to enter the world of experiences, feelings, relations that inspire art works, ?to ?see the images emerge from the words, ?to hear different voices reflecting on this process. Faith Wilding's Fearful Symmetries is an exception. But what is most commendable about this book is the sheer beauty of Wilding's descriptions of the enchanted world in which she grew up?, the magical quality of the paintings included in the book and, equally important, Wilding's reflections on her striving to create generative, organic life forms beyond the world of the feminine. This is a powerful book to be read, shared and treasured. --Silvia Federici, author of Caliban and the Witch

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Shannon R. Stratton is an artist, curator, and writer. She cofounded the artist-run organization Threewalls, Chicago, and is currently the William and Mildred Lasdon Chief Curator at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York. Faith Wilding emigrated to the United States in 1961 from Paraguay. She received her MFA at CalArts where she was a founding member of the Feminist Art Program. Wilding is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work addresses aspects of the somatic, psychic, and sociopolitical history of the body. Recent publications, lectures, exhibitions and performances focus on issues of cyberfeminist (women and technology) theory and practice, with particular emphasis on biotechnology. Wilding has exhibited and lectured widely in the USA and Europe. Her audio work has been commissioned and broadcast by RIAS Berlin; WDR Cologne; and National Public Radio, USA. Wilding has published in MEANING, Heresies, Ms. Magazine, The Power of Feminist Art, and other books and magazines. She is the recipient of two individual media grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. Currently, Wilding is a faculty member at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the MFA in Visual Art Program at Vermont College of the Union Institute and University.

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