Gee Vaucher

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Beyond Punk, Feminism and the Avant-Garde

By Rebecca Binns

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Gee Vaucher by Rebecca Binns offers the first critical assessment of the artist's extensive and influential work. Vaucher, a key figure in punk's protest art of the 1970s and 1980s, created iconic album covers for anarchist band Crass and indie legends the Charlatans. The book explores her unique connection to avant-garde art, counterculture, punk, and feminist art history. It delves into how Vaucher's life, especially her involvement with the radical Dial House collective in Essex, shaped her confrontational and revolutionary artistic output.
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This book will appeal to readers interested in punk music, protest art, feminist art history, and British counterculture movements. It is ideal for art historians, cultural studies scholars, and anyone curious about the intersections of radical politics and creativity.

This book situates and critically assesses the substantial body of work created by Gee Vaucher within a lineage of twentieth- and twenty-first-century art history, including radical art production of the 1970s, political protest and street art and punk design, as well as cultural, socio-economic, political and historic contexts.

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As one of the people who defined punk's protest art in the 1970s and 1980s, Gee Vaucher (b. 1945) deserves to be much better-known. She produced confrontational album covers for the legendary anarchist band Crass and later went on to do the same for Northern indie legends the Charlatans, among others.

More recently, her work was recognised the day after Donald Trump's 2016 election victory when the front page of the Daily Mirror ran her 1989 painting Oh America, which shows the Statue of Liberty, head in hands.

This is the first book to critically assess an extensive range of Vaucher's work. It examines her unique position connecting avant-garde art movements, counterculture, punk, and even contemporary street art. While Vaucher rejects all 'isms', her work offers a unique take on the history of feminist art. The book explores how her life has shaped her output, with particular focus on the open-house collective at Dial House in Essex, a centre for radical creativity.

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

"Binns’s book is meticulously researched and well written, covering an area of punk history that deserves a full spotlight all of its own." – Molly Tie, Punktuation!
"A compelling documentation of an important figure in the postwar British counterculture... a brilliant and engaged creative life." – George McKay, Professor in Media Studies, University of East Anglia
"A long overdue contribution to an important history, shedding new light on Vaucher's significance." – Lucy Robinson, Professor in Collaborative History

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781526147899

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 15 November 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Manchester University Press

Illustration: 19 colour illustrations, 76 black & white illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 21.0mm

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 649g

Pages: 240

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Rebecca Binns

About the Author

Rebecca Binns is a writer and lecturer on art, design and cultural history