BOOK LAUNCH “ART, FEMINISM, CLASS – SELECTED TEXTS” BY LISE VOGEL

MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 2024, AT 7 P.M.

NOVA BAZA, NOVA CESTA 66

You're invited to the launching of the fifth publication in the Tendencija (Tendency) book series, the selection of texts by Marxist-feminist LISE VOGEL, brought together under the title “Art, feminism, class”. The book will be available free of charge to all those interested. 

The speakers:

ANDREJA GREGORINA (BLOK’s collaborator)

LJILJANA KOLEŠNIK, Ph.D. (Institute of Art History)

and

VESNA VUKOVIĆ, translator and publication editor (BLOK)

“The academic and political path of Lise Vogel (1938–), a Marxist-feminist, feminist sociologist, art historian, and an activist, is a exceptional example of the intersection of biography and history. Her research work was shaped and guided by political events, and her activist experiences were crucial for a broad theoretical grasp of the question of oppression in the capitalist society. On the other hand, historical changes were strongly reflected on the reception of her work – it could almost serve us to construe the feminist and Marxist theoretical development from the 1970s until today. Vogel’s contributions to Marxist and feminist socialism are immense, although not sufficiently recognized and acknowledged. (…)

Not only did she respond to the domestic labor productivity debate and the question whether it produced surplus value, but she also offered an insight that ‘’labor power is not produced within the sphere of capitalist production (…), but within a working-class family, based on kinship”,  raising the question of the structural relationship between the family and reproduction of capital. Stepping away from the trans-historical concept of patriarchy that focused on the internal structure of the family, Vogel analyzed women’s oppression through the Marxist concept of social reproduction. (…)

Her contributions to art history in form of texts brought together in this book represent a unique instance within feminist intervention in the discipline and the second-wave, cultural feminism, which insisted on a politics of difference by looking for specifically female qualities, often in the sphere of art. Contrary to that, Lise Vogel took a materialist stance and, in her analyses, put an emphasis on the institution of high art and its ideological detachment and social isolation.”

(FROM THE INTRODUCTION)

PUBLISHER: BLOK

BOOK SERIES EDITOR: Vesna Vuković

PUBLICATION EDITOR AND INTRODUCTION AUTHOR: Vesna Vuković

CHIEF EDITOR: Dunja Kučinac

TRANSLATION BY: Vesna Vuković (“Marxism and Feminism: Unhappy Marriage, Trial Separation, or Something Else?”, “Modernism and History”), Ljiljana Kolešnik and Jasenka Zajec (“Fine Arts and Feminism: The Awaking Consciousness”)

PROOFREDING BY: Jana Pamuković

DESIGN AND LAYOUT BY: Hrvoje Živčić

THE BOOK HAS BEEN PUBLISHED WITHIN THE “ART AND CULTURAL WORKERS CONGRESS 2023” PROJECT, WHICH IS FINACIALLY SUPPORTED BY THE ROSA LUXEMBURG STIFTUNG SOUTHEAST EUROPE. BLOK’S ANNUAL PROGRAM FOR 2024 IS SUPPORTED BY THE ''KULTURA NOVA'' FOUNDATION.