MARIA DUARTE recommends a remarkable study of the friendship between a Palestinian and a Pakistani, broken by a hostile state
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FIONA O'CONNOR salutes a valuable document of the art work of marginalised women in pre-gentrified New York
Helene Cixous teaching at Maison Heine, Paris; (inset) Ana Mendieta in Havana in 1981.
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MATTHEW HAWKINS rakes through un-fancy words and flair-free summaries to find who and what might be flamboyant
PETER MASON is exhilarated by an exciting, well-considered and historically minded tribute to the great Trinidadian instrument
Reducing historical lives to ‘male’ and ‘female’ roles, we lose the nuance of those lives and a clearer understanding of past societies, suggests CLAIRE ISABELLA GILMOUR
CHRIS SEARLE relishes the genius of pianist Alexander Hawkins, his many ensembles, and his new album
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
by Lauren Elkin, Chatto & Windus , £20
DISTANCED from the market’s central nervous system, the avant-gardes of art and literature play together.
New ways of seeing, desiring and being are imagined. Questions about selfhood, in particular women’s selfhood, emerge while mainstream discourses are directed elsewhere.
A lack of curiosity from the market — because unsellable — helps create conditions in which artists and writers kick back against their confinements: social repression, economic unviability, the taboo.
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