Title: The maternal in creative work : intergenerational discussions on motherhood and art /
Authors: Marchevska, Elena, 1978-; Walkerdine, Valerie,
Year: 2020
Subjects: Women's studies; Motherhood and the arts; Creative ability in women; Creative ability in women; Motherhood and the arts; Women's studies
Abstract: "The Maternal in Creative Work examines the interrelation between art, creativity and maternal experience, inviting international artists, theorists and cultural workers to discuss their approaches to the central feminist question of the relation between maternity, generation, and creativity. This edited collection explores various modes and forms of art practice which look at mothers as subjects and as artists of the maternal experience, and how the creative practice is used to accept, negotiate, resist, or challenge traditional conceptions of mothering. The book brings together some of the major projects of maternal art from the last two decades, and opens up new ways of conceptualizing motherhood as a creative and communicative practice. Chapters include intergenerational discussion of art practices in the 20th and 21st Centuries, representations of breastfeeding and infertility in creative projects, the notion of the 'unfit mother' and childlessness, together with the experiences of women and men that take on maternal identities through many forms of kinship and social mothering. The Maternal in Creative Work will be essential reading for interdisciplinary students and scholars in cultural studies, gender studies, and art theory, and will have wider appeal to audiences interested in maternity, childcare, creativity and psychoanalysis"--
Contents: 1. Maternal art practice: an emerging field of artistic enquiry into motherhood, care and time / Elena Marchevska -- Part I. Intergenerational maternal discussions: 2. Feminist intergenerational inheritance: a conversation / Natalie Loveless and Mary Kelly -- 3. Maternal Metaphors I and II: a labour of motherlove / Myrel Chernick and Jennie Klein -- 4. A cord that is never done away with: an aesthetic ontology of the pre­birth scene with Francesca Woodman and Bracha L. Ettinger / Tina Kinsella -- 5. Prisms of mourning: gender, justice and hope: Carrie Mae Weems's Colored People, 1989-1990 / Andrea Liss -- 6. The Mothernists / Deirdre M. Donoghue and Lise Haller Baggesen --  7. A.M.M.A.A. -- The Archive for Mapping Mother Artists in Asia / Ruchika Wason Singh -- Part II. Encountering the maternal in artistic practice: 8. Blueprint for a ghost / Eleanor Bowen and Laura Gonzáles --  9. Maternal time travel: epistolary praxis as intergenerational care work / Rachel Epp Buller -- 10. A mother's work: a mother/daughter, seamstress/fibre artist's merging practice and politics / Arah Han Sifuentes About Younghye Han -- 11. The mother artist in the age of performance reproduction / Elizabeth Philps -- 12. Returning to ourselves: Medea/Mothers' Clothes and Patience one decade on / Lena Šimić and Emily Underwood-Lee -- 13. Unravelling family fictions: Stories We Tell, Daughter Rite and My Life Without Me / Lizzie Thynne -- Part III. Maternal future: Interrupting the field: 14. One for Sorrow: the collaborative work of mother and not-yet-­mother / Alison O'Neill and Jo Paul -- 15. Identity through injury: contemporary adoption and the unfit working class mother / Sally Sales -- 16. The motherhood imperative: fertility, feminism, art / Miriam Schaer -- 17. Drawing as a creative exploration of 'circumstantial childlessness' / Lois Tonkin -- 18. Becoming ordinary: making homosexuality more palatable on TV / Lulu Le Vay.