Sexual Warfare
Sexual Warfare
Alexis Hunter
The publication coincided with the exhibition Alexis Hunter: Sexual Warfare at Goldsmiths CCA. Alexis Hunter (1948–2014) was an influential figure in the feminist art movement in Britain in the 1970s. Working primarily with photography, she created images and narrative sequences, that questioned gender stereotypes and manipulated power dynamics.
The typographic cover, featuring a lush lipstick-red script, makes reference to the artist’s visual language that has been informed by advertising and commercial art of the 70s. In Hunter’s works which are often both humorous and serious in tone, it is often hands mimicking types of hands from glossy magazines but doing things they weren’t supposed to be doing. The colors used for the cover cloth and endpapers adopt the rich earthy colors that were specific to this era and the artist’s photographic work.
Year: 2018
Client: Goldsmiths CCA, London
Publisher: Goldsmiths Press, London
Exhibition catalogue, 19.6 × 26 cm, 90 pages
Photography: Marcel Lunkwitz
Sexual Warfare
Sexual Warfare
Alexis Hunter
The publication coincided with the exhibition Alexis Hunter: Sexual Warfare at Goldsmiths CCA. Alexis Hunter (1948–2014) was an influential figure in the feminist art movement in Britain in the 1970s. Working primarily with photography, she created images and narrative sequences, that questioned gender stereotypes and manipulated power dynamics.
The typographic cover, featuring a lush lipstick-red script, makes reference to the artist’s visual language that has been informed by advertising and commercial art of the 70s. In Hunter’s works which are often both humorous and serious in tone, it is often hands mimicking types of hands from glossy magazines but doing things they weren’t supposed to be doing. The colors used for the cover cloth and endpapers adopt the rich earthy colors that were specific to this era and the artist’s photographic work.
Year: 2018
Client: Goldsmiths CCA, London
Publisher: Goldsmiths Press, London
Exhibition catalogue, 19.6 × 26 cm, 90 pages
Photography: Marcel Lunkwitz