Art, Politics, and Feminist Periodicals: The Case of Heresies (1977-1993)

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Meagher, Michelle

• SSHRC Awarded IG 2014: This four year project that will analyse the influential but under-examined feminist periodical Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics. Heresies was a quasi-biannual magazine edited and produced by a collective that included artists, art historians, activists, and critics. Heresies branded itself as a place where many women's voices would be heard. The central claim of this research project is that the periodical's commitment to representing opposing points of view makes it a particularly valuable document for understanding feminist thinking about art and politics from 1977 to 1993. Heresies stands as a gauge for what its participants -- many of whom would continue to play a central role in feminist art practice, criticism and history well after the periodical folded -- understood to be the key issues of the time. I argue that Heresies is additionally a valuable gauge for understanding the contours of the debates that animated feminist discourses and feminist art thinking during the 1980s -- a period that has been largely overlooked by feminist art historians and critics.

• Date created

  2013-10-07

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Insight Grant
  • Arts and Culture
  • Book Culture
  • Periodical Studies
  • 1977-1993
  • Cultural Studies
  • Women-In-Print Movement
  • Women
  • Feminist Cultural Production
  • Heresies
  • Successful SSHRC
  • Grant application
  • United States
  • Feminist Activism
  • Fine Arts
  • 2014
  • Feminist Art History
  • Communications
  • IG
  • Media Studies
  • Interdisciplinary Studies
  • 1977 - 1993
  • Canada
  • United States

• Type of Item

  Research Material

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3VM42X65

• License

  © Meagher, Michelle. All rights reserved other than by permission. This document embargoed to those without UAlberta CCID until 2022.