Fear and flowers in Anya Gallaccio's keep off the grass, glaschu and repens

Rugg, Judith (2007) Fear and flowers in Anya Gallaccio's keep off the grass, glaschu and repens. In: Culture, creativity and environment : new environmentalist criticism. Nature, culture and literature (5). Rodopi, Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 55-69. ISBN 9789042022508

Creators:
Rugg, Judith
Description/Abstract:

Nature’s gendering as female and the perception of women as being closer to nature than men is exploited and resisted by Anya Gallaccio in her site-specific artworks such as Forest Floor, Keep off the Grass and Repens. Her use of plants as sculptural material questions their associations with femininity and the domestic, and can be historicized with the work of Land Artists such as Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Harriet Feuggenbaum and Dominique Mazeud. Utilising Kleinian theory and drawing on the ideas of Julia Kristeva, this essay argues that Gallaccio collapses artifice, representation and simulacra into the strange and sinister, upsetting assumptions about the cultural stereotypes of femininity and creating subtly anarchic feminist works.

Item Type:
Book Section
Date:
2007
Uncontrolled Keywords or tags :
ecocriticism, ecology in literature, nature
Schools:
School of Fine Art, Crafts & Photography
Depositing User:
Mary-Anne Spalding
Date Deposited:
29 Feb 2012 06:29
Last Modified:
01 Mar 2022 08:43
URI:
https://research.uca.ac.uk/id/eprint/847

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