For an aesthetic of emancipation

Far from re-reading the history of art by applying it in a way anachronistic the term "queer", used positively in circles activists since the late 1980s, For an aesthetic of emancipation seeks to show how the writing of art history has diminished the importance of the political and emotional commitments of artists and rendered the social impact of their works ineffective. By imagining unprecedented friendships between artists of the past, Isabelle Alfonsi to emerge a feminist line and queer for contemporary art. Of artistic practices of the twentieth century are thus replaced in the Context of homosexual rights activism • the • s and of the formation of a radical feminist and anti-capitalist critic. Claude Cahun and Michel Journiac cross the story of minimalism American, seen through Lynda Benglis, Lucy Lippard or Yvonne Rainer. Isabelle Alfonsi