Clark Lecture by Mignon Nixon: "Sperm Bomb: Art, Feminism, and the American War in Vietnam"
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
5:30 pm
Clark Fellow Mignon Nixon, Professor of Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, and a co-editor of the journal October, borrows her lecture title from “Sperm Bomb,” by Nancy Spero, who, in 1964, in response to the escalating American war in Vietnam, abruptly abandoned painting on canvas for more immediate means: gouache and ink liberally diluted with spit. Returning to the scene of war resistance and nascent feminism in the Vietnam era, Nixon reflects upon newly pressing questions of what art concerned with subjectivity brings to a situation of war.
