The Maternal in Creative Work: Intergenerational Discussions on Motherhood and Art

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Dedication
Contents
List of figures and plates
List of contributors
Foreword
Preamble
1 Maternal art practice: an emerging field of artistic enquiry into motherhood, care and time
Part I Intergenerational maternal discussions
	2 Feminist intergenerational inheritance: a conversation
	3 Maternal Metaphors I and II: a labour of motherlove
	4 A cord that is never done away with: an aesthetic ontology of the pre­birth scene with Francesca Woodman and Bracha L. Ettinger
	5 Prisms of mourning: gender, justice and hope: Carrie Mae Weems’s Colored People, 1989–1990
	6 The Mothernists
	7 A.M.M.A.A. – The Archive for Mapping Mother Artists in Asia
Part II Encountering the maternal in artistic practice
	8 Blueprint for a ghost
	9 Maternal time travel: epistolary praxis as intergenerational care work
	10 A mother’s work: a mother/daughter, seamstress/fibre artist’s merging practice and politics
	11 The mother artist in the age of performance reproduction
	12 Returning to ourselves: Medea/Mothers’ Clothes and Patience one decade on
	13 Unravelling family fictions: Stories We Tell, Daughter Rite and My Life Without Me
Part III Maternal future: Interrupting the field
	14 One for Sorrow: the collaborative work of mother and not­yet­mother
	15 Identity through injury: contemporary adoption and the unfit working class mother
	16 The motherhood imperative: fertility, feminism, art
	17 Drawing as a creative exploration of ‘circumstantial childlessness’
	18 Becoming ordinary: making homosexuality more palatable on TV
Afterwords: mothering the future
Index