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🌟 21 y/o
📚 BA English Literature student
🖼 + Art History 2nd Major
👀 professional lurker
🎧 neurodivergent
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i don't have an intro post at the moment but while i come up with one here's a film photo of a red panda at my local wildlife reserve ❤️
film photograph of a red panda in a tree yawning
November 19, 2024 at 5:03 AM
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can't seem to escape fan studies 🤭

excerpt from "Fans of Feminism: Re-writing Histories of Second-Wave Feminism in Contemporary Art" by Catherine Grant (Published in the Oxford Art Journal in 2011)
excerpt from "Fans of Feminism: Re-writing Histories of Second-Wave Feminism in Contemporary Art" by Catherine Grant, published in the Oxford Art Journal in 2011 Defining Fandom Within fan studies, fandom has been recuperated from the realms of obsessive loners and theorised instead as a creative, productive space of engagement with popular culture. As a model for re-writing histories, the differences between the fan and scholar seem to be blurred in many of the accounts of fandom, with a central debate being the self-definition of writer as being fans, academics, or 'fan- scholars' - describing the in-between site of their work within an academic context and /or their participation in fan culture.6 In this respect, my consideration of the artist as a fan also incorporates the artist as an art historian, as well as an art historian as a fan. Here the roles are blurred around a shared interest in a fan object, in this case feminism. My position as a writer is equally coloured by my own fandom, my own emotional attachment to the history of feminism and feminist art. As an art historian influenced by the legacies of feminism, the figure of the fan provides a way to think through my relationship to a history of feminist art and writing.
November 19, 2024 at 3:12 AM