ART, POLITICS AND KNOWLEDGE: FEMINISM, MODERNITY, AND THE SEPARATION OF SPHERES
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Auteurs : Amy Mullin [Canada]Source :
- Metaphilosophy [ 0026-1068 ] ; 1996-01.
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- Activist, Adequate understanding, Adorno, Aesthetic attitude, Aesthetics, Alcoff, Arlene raven, Babbitt, Beacon press, Blackwell, Blackwell publishers, Carolyn korsmeyer, Cognitive dimension, Cognitive function, Collaborative, Common nature, Critique, Danto, Epistemological, Epistemological communities, Epistemologist, Epistemology, Essential frankfurt school reader, Essentialism, Female body, Feminism, Feminist, Feminist aesthetics, Feminist artists, Feminist criticism, Feminist epistemologies, Feminist epistemologists, Feminist epistemology, Feminist essays, Feminist film criticism, Feminist perspective, Feminist politics, Feminist specificity, Feminist standpoint theories, Feminist theories, Feminist theory, Focus attention, Frueh, Gender, George dickie, Habermas, Hilde hein, Indiana university press, Interconnection, Judith butler, Lauretis, Lauter, Linda nochlin, Long tradition, Longino, Male gaze, Margolis, Metaphilosophy, Metaphilosophy foundation, Mullin, Nochlin, Nonpropositional, Nonpropositional knowledge, Objectivity, Other forms, Political consequences, Postaesthetic, Postmodern, Postmodernism, Postpositivist, Propositional knowledge, Richard rorty, Rorty, Routledge, Section viii, Sexist, Sexist oppression, Subversive imagination, Such knowledge, Theorist, Transformative, Transformative knowledge, Women artists.
Abstract
Abstract: Feminist epistemology and feminist art theory are characterized by an opposition to modernity's separation of art, politics, and knowledge into three autonomous spheres. However, this opposition is not enough to distinguish them from other philosophies. In this paper I examine parallels between the two fields of inquiry in order to discover what makes them distinctively feminist. Feminist epistemology sees interconnections between knowledge and politics, feminist art theory sees connections between art and politics. We need to explore as well connections between art and knowledge.
Compared to feminist epistemology, feminist art theory has had much less exposure, and in this paper I emphasize what the former can learn from the latter. In particular, I suggest that feminist art can answer a call made by feminist theories of knowledge for a kind of transformative knowledge. If we focus on the features of activist art explored by feminist art theories, we see that feminist art is particularly suited to engage emotions as well as the intellect. It is an example of nonpropositional knowledge, and is interactive rather than striving to pass down lessons from above. Feminist art celebrates the power of art to “make strange” and to unsettle fixed identities which can transform our understanding of the world.
There is a tendency in some feminist art theory to separate the more concrete work (rediscovering women artists, recognizing women's crafts as art forms, and investigating sexist imagery in art), from the theoretical project of reenvisioning the relations of art to its sociopolitical context. I conclude by arguing that without an awareness of the dialectical relationship between the concrete and the theoretical, feminist art theories run the risk of losing their feminist specificity. They would then amount to little more than abstract pronouncements of the interconnections between art, politics, and knowledge. We need to maintain the feminist specificity of feminist politics in our theories of art and knowledge, and I use examples throughout the essay, drawn particularly from feminist activist art, with this goal in mind.
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