{"product_id":"insurgent-muse-life-and-art-at-the-womans-building-paperback","title":"Insurgent Muse: Life and Art at the Woman's Building - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTerry Wolverton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the 1970's, the West Coast feminist arts movement coalesced around the Woman's Building in Los Angeles. Founded by artist Judy Chicago, the Woman's Building was conceived as a public center for women's culture. Women from across the country were drawn there to be part of a community engaged in the exploration of what a female-centered culture might mean.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eInsurgent Muse\u003c\/em\u003e, Terry Wolverton chronicles her own 13-year involvement in the Woman's Building. Arriving as a young art student in 1976, she stayed on to become a teacher and co-founder of the Lesbian Art Project and, eventually, the Building's executive director. Her journey-emblematic of many women who sought to redefine themselves in the light of feminism-entails confrontation with the damages of sexism, the pitfalls of utopian community, and the forces of social backlash.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInsurgent Muse\u003c\/em\u003e is a powerful testament to the importance of feminist thought and the ongoing need for it-by women and men-today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe spirit of the legendary Woman's Building lives on in this unflinchingly brave and tender memoir. Terry Wolverton's \u003cem\u003eInsurgent Muse\u003c\/em\u003e is witty, heart-rending, superbly honest and deeply moving, providing an acute social analysis of a young life and a memorable era of feminism that fueled so much art and so many epiphanies. The great work of the Woman's Building deserves this book.--Lucy Lippard, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Pink Glass Swan: Selected Feminist Essays on Art\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Woman's Building became a North Star on a dream map for women who were looking to redefine their lives and work. And its history--rich, splintered, groundbreaking--is the subject of a new book.--\u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs her memoir illustrates, being a woman artist in the mid-1970s was profoundly revolutionary.--\u003cem\u003eLesbian News\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer documentation of the ideals, debates, and out-and-out battles waged during this important time in the feminist movement will give young women both a surprising and relatable snapshot of the era . . . An inspirational read.--\u003cem\u003eBust Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoet and novelist Wolverton describes her life and work at . . . the Woman's Building, a center for feminist art and culture in Los Angeles... provides an intimate look at the organizational struggles and triumphs. Recommended for public and academic libraries with extensive women's studies or art history collections, particularly on the West Coast.--\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs any individual life a representative life? Terry Wolverton's seems to be in so many ways. Her searingly honest memoir tells what it was like to be a woman, an artist, a lesbian during those heady, storm and stress decades of the 1970s and '80s. It's all here--the multi-lover dyko dramas, the intersection of personal and political, the Coming Out and Recovery and remembering sexual abuse movements, the rise and fall of a women's cultural center, the Woman's Building in L.A. Wolverton has a poet's sense of the complexities of the interior life and an eye witness's intimacy with that era. Anyone wanting to know what it was like to be a woman, an artist, a lesbian at the end of the last American century will find this book indispensable.--Rebecca Brown, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Terrible Girls\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Dogs\u003c\/em\u003e (both published by City Lights)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTerry Wolverton is the author of the novel \u003cem\u003eBailey's Bead\u003c\/em\u003es and two collections of poetry, \u003cem\u003eBlack Slip\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMystery Bruise\u003c\/em\u003e. She has also edited numerous anthologies of gay and lesbian fiction, including \u003cem\u003eHis\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHers (Vols I-III\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTerry Wolverton is the author of the novel \u003cem\u003eBailey's Bead\u003c\/em\u003es and two collections of poetry, \u003cem\u003eBlack Slip\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMystery Bruise\u003c\/em\u003e. She has also edited numerous anthologies of gay and lesbian fiction, including \u003cem\u003eHis\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHers (Vols I-III\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.76 x 7.9 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Lambda Literary Awards (2002)\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Triangle Awards (2003)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51758132298016,"sku":"9780872864030","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/39764792db5ae6c95722e51532545f14.webp?v=1780118825","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/insurgent-muse-life-and-art-at-the-womans-building-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}