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  title info:
    title: Acts of creation
    sub title: on art and motherhood
  name:
    name part: Judah, Hettie
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Cass, Brian
    role:
      role term: writer of foreword.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 272 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
  abstract: Exploring maternity through the work of artists from prehistory to the present day, Acts of Creation addresses the abiding mother-shaped hole in art history. Long taboo, lived experiences of motherhood - and all that accompanies it - are now the subject of urgent discussion. Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood delves into the joys and heartaches, mess, myths and mishaps of motherhood through over 150 artworks, from ancient goddess artifacts to contemporary interpretations of pregnancy in the present. While the Madonna and Child archetype has dominated Western art, we rarely encounter art about real motherhood, in all its raw, unfiltered complexity. Renowned author and curator Hettie Judah examines how shifting ideals of motherhood have been constructed and promoted through visual culture. Moving into the 20th and 21st centuries, it also looks at how women artists - among them Barbara Hepworth, Jenny Saville, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Betye Saar, Suzanne Valadon, Louise Bourgeois, Carrie Mae Weems - have worked to subvert these ideals and reclaim the narrative. Women have long been told that they cannot be both an artist and a mother: here the artist mother is instead addressed as an important cultural paradigm. Acts of Creation explores lived experience of motherhood - and of not becoming a mother - offering a complex account that engages with ongoing concerns around gender, caregiving and reproductive rights. Published to coincide with the acclaimed Hayward Gallery touring exhibition of the same name, Acts of Creation is an engaging, thought-provoking and richly illustrated must-read on the evolving discourse on motherhood, offering a fresh perspective that challenges conventions and inspires change.
  table of contents: Introduction : the monstrous child -- Mothers divine -- The mother in western art : a history of fragments -- The artist as mother -- Creation -- Maintenance -- Loss -- Mothering : the family reborn.
  note: Hettie Judah ; foreword by Brian Cass.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-258) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Motherhood in art
  subject:
    topic: Mothers in art
  subject:
    topic: Breastfeeding in art
  subject:
    topic: Maternité dans l'art
  subject:
    topic: Mères dans l'art
  subject:
    topic: Allaitement maternel dans l'art
  subject:
    topic: ART / General
  subject:
    topic: Motherhood in art
  subject:
    topic: Mothers in art
  subject:
    topic: Breastfeeding in art
  classification: N7630 .J83 2024
  classification: 704.9424
  identifier: 9780500027868
  identifier: 0500027862
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 240218
    record change date: 20250318214710.7
    record identifier: in00005518280
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng