Title: An intimate distance : works by Glynis Humphrey, Suzanne Swannie and Andrea Ward /
Authors: Humphrey, Glynis.; Swannie, Suzanne.; Ward, Andrea, 1966-; Jenkner, Ingrid, 1955-; Mount Saint Vincent University.
Year: 2015
Subjects: Humphrey, Glynis Exhibitions.; Swannie, Suzanne Exhibitions.; Ward, Andrea, Exhibitions.; Humphrey, Glynis Expositions.; Swannie, Suzanne, Expositions.; Ward, Andrea, Expositions.; Feminism in art Exhibitions.; Art, Canadian Nova Scotia Halifax Exhibitions.; Féminisme dans l'art Expositions.; Art canadien Nouvelle-Écosse Halifax Expositions.
Abstract: "An Intimate Distance presents three multi-component works: Andrea Ward's Hairstories, Glynis Humphrey's Gorge and Suzanne Swannie's Considering Two Small Forms, for Maja and Marta. Apart from illuminating body image issues and other details of women's lives, these works hold in common a distinctive "aniconism"--the avoidance of figurative depictions of women's bodies. They exemplify a critical tendency in Second-Wave feminist art-making, the commitment to engage with women's subjectivity while at the same time refusing to depict women's bodies as objects of "the gaze". The constraints entailed by this aesthetics of refusal have prompted some of the most compelling and imaginative works of art produced in Nova Scotia in the last thirty years"--
Contents: Foreword & acknowledgements / Ingrid Jenkner -- An intimate distance / Ingrid Jenkner -- Gorge / Susan Wolf -- Hairstories / Susan Wolf -- Considering two small forms, for Maja and Marta / Gloria Hickey.