Download or read book Radical Gestures written by Jayne Wark and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2006 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wark brings together a wide range of artists, including Lisa Steele, Martha Rosler, Lynda Benglis, Gillian Collyer, Margaret Dragu, and Sylvie Tourangeau, and provides detailed readings and viewings of individual pieces, many of which have not been studied in detail before. She reassesses assumptions about the generational and thematic characteristics of feminist art, placing feminist performance within the wider context of minimalism, conceptualism, land art, and happenings