Gee Vaucher: Beyond punk, feminism and the avant-garde

Rebecca Binns

doi:10.7765/9781526147929

Best known for her work with punk provocateurs Crass, Gee Vaucher (b. 1945) is widely acknowledged for the idiosyncratic and powerful images that have played a decisive role in shaping alternative culture over the last fifty years. This is the first book to critically assess an extensive range of her work, situating it in a lineage from early twentieth-century avant-garde art movements through the counterculture and punk and on to contemporary street art. It provides a fascinating insight into social and cultural history from a vital but hitherto marginalised perspective. While Vaucher rejects all ‘isms’, her work offers a unique perspective within the history of feminist art. The book explores how her experience has shaped this perspective, with particular focus on the anarchistic, open house collective at Dial House.

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Introduction
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1 - The changing face of British arts, politics and culture during Vaucher’s art school years
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2 - Radical art collectives and the free festivals movement
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3 - New York, political photomontage and the underground press
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4 - Towards the definition of a punk aesthetic
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5 - Crass art and the birth of anarcho-punk
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6 - Post-punk, hardcore and the dissolution of the dream
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7 - Post Crass introspection: Postmodernism and the anti-rationalist avant-garde
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8 - Beyond the art world: Political agitation and public intervention in the new millennium
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Front Matter
pp i-iv

Table of contents
pp v-v

List of figures
pp vi-x

List of plates
pp xi-xii

Acknowledgements
pp xiii-xiv

Introduction
pp 1-5

1 - The changing face of British arts, politics and culture during Vaucher’s art school years
pp 6-27

2 - Radical art collectives and the free festivals movement
pp 28-52

3 - New York, political photomontage and the underground press
pp 53-75

4 - Towards the definition of a punk aesthetic
pp 76-96

5 - Crass art and the birth of anarcho-punk
pp 97-121

6 - Post-punk, hardcore and the dissolution of the dream
pp 122-151

7 - Post Crass introspection: Postmodernism and the anti-rationalist avant-garde
pp 152-171

8 - Beyond the art world: Political agitation and public intervention in the new millennium
pp 172-202

Select bibliography
pp 203-208

Index
pp 209-216

Plates
pp 217-224

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