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Below is a list of key books from the database, listed alphabetical by author's last name. (It's not comprehensive, and your search for names may reveal more!)
Sonia
Abadzieva Deep Breathing
(Skopje: Skenpoint, 2001)
More Review reproduced from Volume 9, n.paradoxa, Jan 2002. Katy Deepwell 'Short Book Reviews'
Sonia Abadzieva Deep Breathing Skopje: Skenpoint, 2001
(English and Macedonian texts)
9989-888-05-1
Largely illustrated with works from the 1990s and including only a very few from the 1980s and 1970s, this publication is less a recent history of contemporary Macedonian women artists or the few women artists' exhibitions since the 1990s , than a very personal discussion of issues and ideas about the feminine and female-orientated traditions in Macedonia, overlooking recent cultural politics or history. It includes around 80 biographies of artists and a chronology.
Andrea
Abalia, Txaro Arrazola, Raquel Asensi et al Arte, Investigación y Feminismos (available as downloadable PDF, Spainish text)
(Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU, 2018)
Gabriela
Aceves Sepúlveda Women Made Visible: Feminist Art and Media in Post-1968 Mexico City
(USA: University of Nebraska Press, 2019)
Kathy
Acker and Robin Kahn, Antal Ronell Time Capsule: A Concise Encyclopedia by Women Artists
(Creative Time, 1995)
Parveen
Adams The Emptiness of the Image: Psychoanalysis and Sexual Differences
(Routledge, 1995)
More This article was first published by Katy Deepwell in Women's Art Magazine, April/May 1996. p.29-30 and discusses Parveen Adams The Emptiness of the Image: Psychoanalysis and Sexual Difference (London & New York: Routledge, 1996) ISBN 0-415 04622-X and Liz Wells (editor) Viewfindings: Women Photographers:'Landscape' and Environment (W.England: AvailableLight,1994) ISBN 1-899457-00-3
These two books provide an opportunity to discuss and compare two divergent trends within feminist art criticism : one, the presentation of contemporary women artist's work and the other, the feminist critique of the mechanisms at stake in the representation of gendered representations (not necessarily or exclusively produced by women). What interests me is the contrast represented by these two approaches : Liz Wells foregrounds women artists' actual work, the photographs themselves, emphasising women's political and multicultural diversity ; Parveen Adams offers a singular and consistent feminist critique within a primarily Lacanian psychoanalytic framework, a perspective developed and revised in relation to an encounter with specific artworks. The Emptiness of the Image presents papers written by Parveen Adams since 1987 and offers a very specific feminist critique of psychoanalytic concepts (e.g. hysteria, identification,voyeurism, castration) in order to discuss how psychoanalysis might by applied to analyse individual artworks by both male and female artists, including Francis Bacon, Della Grace, Mary Kelly and Orlan. Liz Wells' Viewfindings is a very different kind of book which presents the work of 13 women photographers to demonstrate the diversity of contemporary approaches to the questions of woman, 'nature'; landscape and enviroment. It is framed by a short, albeit revised and extended, essay offering a social-historical context by Liz Wells entitled 'Reframing Landscape' which was published in a different form by Women's Art Magazine in 1993/4. Although the strength of Liz Wells' book is invested in the visual reproductions in colour of the photographic work and complemented by short statements and one interview with one of the artists, this is not the case in Parveen Adams' book where reproductions are few and far between and confined to black and white. Does the presentation itself indicate two divergent audiences for these books? Strong visual images often attract artists to borrow, read or buy books where the artwork is mainly presented rather than books where verbal analysis is the principal issue and the books 'look' academic. This is not to say that either book falls into the trap of presuming the works 'speak for themselves' nor the opposite where the analysis is so overdetermined as to limit any other form of possible enagagement in the work, but it is to point to a common split reproduced in art publishing where books of art criticism , which are neither catalogues from exhibitions nor monographs, have generally poor reproductions, particularly those with feminist content. Liz Wells' book was made with the assistance of the Arts Council in order to develop the generally high production values, whereas Routledge, Parveen Adams' publisher, rarely publishes colour plates in its art history series, even as it maintains an orthodox stranglehold on publication of certain forms of academic research.
As a feminist strategy for making women's work more visible and to frame it within a coherent and graspable way in a new field of enquiry where little has been published, Liz Well's book is highly effective but I regret that each artist does not receive a more detailed critical analysis even as I recognise the role of the book in distributing women's photography to a wider audience. Women's work needs not just physical visibility but also the assistance of extended critical discussion. While Liz Wells properly seeks to problematise 'landscape' as a category, I wanted to read more in-depth analysis of how particular women photographer's had in the late 20th Century defined their subjects' relationship to property, territory, entrepreneurship, class, racism, Imperialism, and patriarchy (like Ingrid Pollard's Pastoral Interlude or Stevie Bezencenet Right of Passage or Roshini Kempadoo's Trans-formations portfolio which are reproduced). In a world where women's activities are almost 'automatically' subject to a failure to recognise the positions from which women speak or to give credibility to anything they have to say, the need for commentary becomes all the more important. Contrary to the frequent misapprehension that this detracts from the work, or that critical analysis may destroy the work, in-depth criticism may actually provide a means of access to the project of the artist. Comparisons between artists may also offer a means to demonstrate the strengths and weaknesses of the work itself and this is the very difficulty and tension between representing the necessary diversity of women's art practice in relation to the questions of photography and landscape and framing adequately beyond the categories of 'Margins'; 'Territories'; 'Image, Metaphor, Myth' which Liz Wells offers. Liz Wells is also the editor of Photography: A Critical Introduction (Routledge, 1996 ISBN 0-415-12559-6) : a valuable teaching text to introduce photography's history and theory.
Perhaps these comments about further critical work are also prompted by the contrast with Parveen Adams' work, where a very different strategy is operating. Here an individual artists' work acts as a prompt, a vehicle for elaborate investigations about pyschoanalytic concepts and their adequacy to address fully how identificatory mechanisms within artworks produce meaning. Her enquiries are refreshingly readable amongst work in this field. What is productive here is the way that both the operations of artwork and / or text and the psychoanalytic concepts themselves are subjects of her questioning. For, Parveen Adams has generally avoided what has become an unfortunate tendency in some art historical texts which employ psychoanalysis is that the artwork is discussed only where it fits a pre-existing pyschoanalytic framework without subjecting that framework to any questioning. Parveen Adams has instead opened up how an encounter with a work might prompt reflection of both psychoanalysis and artistic strategies. However, there is one essay where this is not the case, and this concerns the analysis of Catherine Mackinnon's text on pornography in terms of sadism. The possibility of this as a deliberate polemical strategy in political life is dismissed in order to demonstrate the violence inflicted on the reader by the text itself . The comparison of this strategy to those of other pornographic or sadistic writers strikes me as hopelessly inadequate as a means of critiquing the logic of the text and its accurately observed conflation of reality and representation. This is not to say, I support Mackinnon's position but my criticisms of it arise because of the civil legislation which follow from her critique and whether or not these are workable in any state. This is where the more subtle and absorbing sense of possibilities and rereadings offered in the other essays (like chapters on 'Of female bondage' and 'Per (os)cillation') dissolves into a very specific problem for feminists : i.e. how social and political demands for social change can be critiqued by psychoanalytic processes which reflect upon actions and events to reveal and revise psychoanalysis itself rather than to structure new forms of political or social activity. Is it coincidence that this is the only essay jointly written in the book, and with Mark Cousins? By contrast, her reading of Mary Kelly's Interim is really intriguing and insightful in terms of the ways in Lacan's ideas about discourse (including the discourses of Master, University, Hysteric, and Analyst) are deployed to reflect upon the relation of textuality and interpretation: specifically how the same question can mean and imply different things in different situations. Parveen Adams explores how 'Interim gives us the place of the object petit a at the limit of the image' (p.84) , representations which both interrogate the object of desire and interrupt the movement of desire on the part of the spectator in his/her misrecognition of the object : a relation of transference which refuses the discourse of the Master. The essays on the horror provoked by the operations of the French performance artist Orlan and her analysis of Della Grace's 'The Three Graces' in relationship to a lesbian Phallus are also thought-provoking readings.
While these two books may represent two divergent trends in feminist publishing , they nevertheless are both significant and desirable books to read.
Tessa
Adams and Andrea Duncan The feminine case : Jung, aesthetics and creative process
(London ; New York : Karnac, 2003)
Lene
Adler Petersen Kvindetegnet
(Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 2010)
More Review reproduced from Volume 27, n.paradoxa, Jan 2011. Katy Deepwell 'Short Book Reviews'
Lene Adler Petersen Kvindetegnet Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 2010 ISBN: 9788702078923
This catalogue documents the 484 collages/drawings known as Cuttings on Paper with the O-Sign(1974) now owned by the Statens Museum fur Kunst in Copenhagen. Birgitte Anderberg's introduction emphasises Lene Adler Petersen's formal strategies within the black and white format of this work and its dissection of images of women in relation to what was the sign for feminism in the 1970s. Produced in the lead up to her first major solo show in 1975, Adler Petersen was also heavily involved in the planning of Kvindeudstillingen XX (The Women's Exhibition) in Charlottenborg the same year. Although the essay stresses her radical credentials in foregrounding a female psyche and the potential of a new political language from women, an opportunity to examine the links to other feminist artists and groups working around her in Denmark has been lost.
Annika
Aitken, Dr Isobel Crombie, Megan Patty, Dr Maria Quirk and Myles Russell-Cook eds
She Persists: Perspectives on Women in Art and Design
(Australia: National Gallery of Victoria, 2020)
Arna
Alexander Bontemps Forever Free: Art by African-American Women
(Alexandria, Va.: Stephenson, 1980)
Juan Vicente
Aliaga Arte y cuestiones de género: una travesía del siglo XX
(Editorial Nerea, 2004)
Edith
Almhofer Performance Art: die Kunst zu Leben
(Wien: Bohlau, 1986)
Caroline
Ambrus The Unseen Art Scene: 32 Australian Women Artists
(Woden: ACT: Irrepresssible Press, 1995)
Rhea
Anastas, Michael Brenson eds
Witness to Her Art: Art and Writings by Adrian Piper, Mona Hatoum, Cady Noland, Jenny Holzer, Kara Walker, Daniela Rossell and Eau de Cologne
(Bard College, 2007)
Alice
Andersen Konnets Aesthetiik : bidrag til en 'betydelse' af kvindeligheden
(Denmark: Aarhus Universitets Forlag, 1989)
Christina Z.
Anderson Tutti Nudi: Reflections on the Nude from the Greeks to the Twenty-First Century
(New York: Midmarch, 2000)
More Review reproduced from Volume 7, n.paradoxa, Jan 2001. Katy Deepwell 'Short Book Reviews'
Christina Z. Anderson Tutti Nudi: Reflections on the Nude from the Greeks to the Twenty-First Century New York: Midmarch Arts press, 2000. ISBN 1 877675 34 2
A gentle introduction to this topic, highlighting the links between religious doctrine and the representation of the female nude over the last two millenium with some sharp and incisive comments to provoke a feminist consciousness in the reader.
Gabor
Andrasi ed
Erotics and Sexuality in Hungarian Art
(Budapest: League of non-profit art spaces, 1999)
Muriel
Andrin (et al) eds
Femmes et critique(s): lettres, arts, cinéma
(Namur : Presses universitaires de Namur, 2009)
Suzanne
Anker and Dorothy Nelkin The Molecular Gaze: Art in the Genetic Age
(New York: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2004)
More Review reproduced from Volume 15, n.paradoxa, Jan 2005. Katy Deepwell 'Short Book Reviews'
Suzanne Anker and Dorothy Nelkin The Molecular Gaze: Art in the Genetic Age New York: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2004
ISBN: 0 87969 697 4
This engaging book examines the impact of DNA as a visual icon for modern biology in contemporary art since the 1980s. Divided into five sections, the authors explore the reduction of the body to a script of code in the information age; the blurring of boundaries between human and animal in transgenics; a new eugenics; the commodification of genes; and science as culture in artists' work. As a comment on the book jacket suggests the question is raised but not answered: whether the artist's engagement is fuelled by protest, explication or just fascination? A wide range of artists' work is discussed, from Boltanski to Marc Quinn, Hans Bellmer to Cindy Sherman, Matthew Barney to the Tissue Culture and Art project, Gunter van Hagens to Helen Chadwick. Women artists feature prominently in the discussion, including Faith Wilding, Ellen Levy, Christine Borland, the Storey Sisters, Orlan and Cornelia Hesse-Honegger.
Ida
Applebroog Benjamin Lignel ed
Ida Applebroog Are You Bleeding Yet?
(New York: la maison Red, 2002)
More Review reproduced from Volume 11, n.paradoxa, Jan 2003. Katy Deepwell 'Short Book Reviews'
Benjamin Lignet (ed.) Ida Applebroog Are You Bleeding Yet? New York: la maison Red ISBN: 1-56466-087-7
A comprehensive overview of the New York painter Ida Appelbroog presented through images of her work and edited quotations from essays, reviews and interviews. Introduced by Francine Prose, the book tracks her exhibition history from 1976 to the present day in a lavishly illustrated monograph.
Gil
Appleton Women in the Arts: A Study by the Research Advisory Group of the Women & the Arts Project
(Australia: Sydney, 1982)
Århus Universitet Køn & identitet
(Institut for Æstetiske Fag, Afdeling for Kunsthistorie, Århus Universitet, 2003)
Marion
Arnold Women and Art in South Africa
(Cape Town: David Phillip, 1996)
Marion
Arnold and Brenda Schmahmann eds
Between Union and liberation : women artists in South Africa 1910-1994
(Aldershot : Ashgate, 2005)
Marion
Arnold and Marsha Meskimmon eds
Home/Land: Women, Citizenship, Photographies
(Liverpool University Press, 2016)
Alejandro
Arosetegui Mujeres
(Nicaragua: CODICE: Galeria de Arte Contemporaneo, 1993)
Sara
Arrhenius and Friedrich Meschede eds
Works by Annika Eriksson
(Leipzig: DAAD, IASPIS, Propexus, Revolver, 2005)
More Review reproduced from Volume 19, n.paradoxa, Jan 2007. Katy Deepwell 'Short Book Reviews'
Sara Arrhenius & Friedrich Meschede (eds) Works by Annika Eriksson
Leipzig: DAAD, IASPIS, Propexus, Revolver, 2005. ISBN 91-87952-20-3 (Propexus) ISBN 3-86588-131-9 (Revolver - Archiv fur aktuelle Kunst)
Introduced by a critical essay by Peio Aguirre, this major exhibition catalogue documents Eriksson's practice between 1991-2005 in photos and project descriptions of her installations and videos. Her "staff pieces" where co-workers from bus companies or museums introduce themselves and explain where they come from reveal and make visible migration, displacement and belonging in the modern work place. In other works, Eriksson sets up a situation of work which unmasks relationships of power and authority. Her collaborative works are thus described by Aguirre as a mixture of 'anthropological optimism, humanist socialism and feminism': a public looking glass.
Elisabeth
Ashburn Lesbian Art: An Encounter with Power
(Australia: Craftsman House, USA: Gordon and Breach, 1996)
Association Femmes et mathématiques, France Rencontres entre artistes et mathématiciennes: toutes un peu les autres
(Paris : L'Harmattan, 2001)
Claudia
Attimonelli and Caterina Tomeo eds
L’ elettronica è donna. Media, corpi, pratiche transfemministe e queer (Italian text)
(Caestellvechi, Rome, 2022)
Australia Council Women in the Arts: A Strategy for Action
(North Sydney: Australia Council, 1984)
Axis : Deanna Herst, Jan Torpus, Alex Schaub Axis: Gender, Media, Art
(Amsterdam: Axis, (a CD-Rom), 1999)
More Review reproduced from Volume 4, n.paradoxa, July 1999. Katy Deepwell 'Book Reviews'
Axis Gender, Media,Art CD ROM
Concept: Deanna Herst, Jan Torpus, Alex Schaub.
This CD-Rom contains details of 12 Axis-organised projects between 1997-1998. Over 75 artists are represented, including Lynn Hershman, Annie Sprinkle, Sadie Benning, and Debra Solomon 'Women with Beards' calendar. The interface uses Quicktime (also included), and relies on manipulation of three interlocking circles where one locates different wigs upon different heads to blend genders, identities and access other parts of the CD-Rom. Sections include use of sound,video clips and dynamic graphics to show quotations on gender, media and art theory; a floating sequence of talking heads discussing the situation of women in the media and hot link clicks to artworks; individual artist's projects ranging from examinations of identity politics, queer theory, gay identities, cross-dressing, gender-blending and pornography. As an anthology of work, this is an invaluable CD-Rom to have.
Virginia
Ayllon and Fernando Machicado Vola entre Sonidos,Colores y Palabras (mujer y actividad cultural en la prensa boliviana, 1991)
(Bolivia: La Paz: CIDEM, 1992)
Matthew
Baigell and Renee Baigell Peeling Potatoes, Painting Pictures: Women Artists in Post-Soviet Russia, Estonia & Latvia, The First Decade
(New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2001)
Sascia
Bailer Caring Infrastructures: Transforming the Arts through Feminist Curating
(Transcript Verlag, 2024)
E.
Baker and T.Hess eds
Art and Sexual Politics
(New York,London, 1971)
Mieke
Bal Louise Bourgeois' Spider: the Architecture of Art-Writing
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001)
Rakhee
Balaram Counterpractice: Psychoanalysis, politics and the art of French feminism
(Manchester University Press, 2022)
Anna
Ball Forced migration in the feminist imagination : transcultural movements
(Routledge, 2021)
Erika
Balsom and Hila Peleg Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image
(MIT press, 2022)
Grace
Banks Play With Me: Dolls, Women and Art
(Lawrence King, 2017)
Bettina
Bannasch and Stephanie Waldow eds
Lust? : Darstellungen von Sexualität in der Gegenwartskunst von Frauen
(Paderborn : Fink , 2008)
Jennifer
Banta ed
Cultural Confluences:
The Art of Lenore Chinn
(San Francisco: APICC, 2011)
A.
Banti Quando Anche le Donne si Misero a Dipingere
(Italy: Milan, 1982)
Olga
Barrios Herrero La Mujer en las artes visuales y escenicas: Transgresion, pluralidad y compromiso social
(Fundamentos, 2010)
Roberta
Barros elogio ao toque: ou como falar de arte feminista a brasilera
(Rio de Janeiro: Relacionarte , 2016)
Orla
Barry Portable Stones
(Belgium: SMAK, exhibition catalogue, 2005)
More Review reproduced from Volume 16, n.paradoxa, July 2005. Katy Deepwell 'Short Book Reviews'
Orla Barry Portable Stones exhibition catalogue (Belgium: SMAK, 2005) ISBN: 90-7567-918-1
The first two sections of this catalogue are documentation of several major projects by the artist since 1991, from her graphic and paper-based installations like The Barmaid's Notebook and Year X to both the scripts and stills from five of her video/ films including A Tear for a Glass of Water and Portable Stones. The third part contains 2 essays by Eva Wittocx and Enrique Juncosa with an interview from 2004 between the artist and Bruce Haines (the 3 curators from each of the exhibition venues: SMAK; London, Camden Arts Centre, end 2005-2006; Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2006). Working between Belgium and Ireland, Barry's video work offers some compelling monologues, primarily focused on a female character, often in trouble, seeking a new direction, a way to make sense of the world or a means to announce their own position on life, art and sensual existence in the world.
Eli
Bartra Feminism and Folk Art: Case Studies in Mexico, New Zealand, Japan and Brazil
(USA: Lexington, 2019)
Eli
Bartra Crafting Gender: Women and Folk Art in Latin America and the Caribbean
(Durham: Duke University Press, 2003)
More Review reproduced from Volume 13, n.paradoxa, Jan 2004. Katy Deepwell 'Short Book Reviews'
Eli Bartra (ed) Crafting Gender: Women and Folk Art in Latin America and the Carribean Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. ISBN: 0-8223-3182-9
A new anthology which focuses on women's contribution as producers and consumers of "folk art". This book positions its case studies as gender-based with attention to social context and the analysis of specific belief systems and aesthetic values. Questioning the category of "folk art", the essays embrace both women artists in indigenous communities and the mestiza society of the region. Sally Price writes about fashions in "traditional" Maroon art in Suriname; Norma Valle about Santeras in Puerto Rico; Mari Lyn Salvador on Kuna women's arts in Panama; Dorothea Scott Whitten on Canelos Quichua women in Ecuador. Eli Bartra writes about Mexican ceramicists of Mata Ortiz; Ronald J. Duncan analyses women's folk art in La Chamba, Columbia; Dolores Juliana writes on Mapuche craftswomen in Argentina; Maria Rodriguez-Shadow on votive paintings in Chalma, Mexico; Betty LaDuke on Teodora Blanco in Mexico and Lourdes Rejon Patron on Mayan women's costumes.
Eli
Bartra, María Guadalupe Huacuz Elías eds.
Mujeres, feminismo y arte popular
([México, D.F.] : Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Xochimilco : Obra Abierta Ediciones, 2015)
Kathy
Battista Re-Negotiating the Body: Feminist Art in 1970s London
(London: I B Tauris, 2011)
Kathy
Battista New York, New Wave: The Legacy of Feminist Artists in Emerging Practices
(IB Tauris, 2019)
Jean
Baudrillard and Sophie Calle Suite Venetienne/Please Follow Me
(Seattle: Bay Press, 1988)
Jennifer
Baumgardner, Amy Richards eds
Manifesta [10th Anniversary Edition]: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010)
S.
Baumgart and and G. Birkle, M. Fend, B. Gotz, A. Klier, B. Uppenkamp eds
Denkraume:Zwischen Kunst und Wissenchaft: 5.Kunsthistorikerinnin-Tagung in Hamburg
(Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1993)
Kyra
Belan Earth, Spirit and Gender: Visual Language for the New Reality
(American Heritage, 1997)
Katnira
Bello y Julia Antivilo Monica Mayer: Intimidades… o no. Arte, vida y feminismo
( Editorial Diecisiete, 2021)
Jill
Bennett Practical Aesthetics
(London: IB Tauris, 2012)
Ruth
Ben-Tovim and Trish O'Shea Encounters: The Shop Collections
(UK: Sheffield, Site Gallery, 2006)
More Review reproduced from Volume 20, n.paradoxa, July 2007. Katy Deepwell 'Short Book Reviews'
Ruth Ben-Tovim and Trish O'Shea Encounters: The Shop Collections Sheffield, UK: Site Gallery, 2006 ISBN: 1-899926-76-3
This small and interesting catalogue documents the artists' project since 2002 taking over disused shops in Sharrow, and establishing encounters with the local community in an exchange of lost and found objects, memories and organised workshops.
Mirna
Berberovic, Teja Reba eds
City of Women/Reflecting/2018/2019
(Slovenia: Mesto Zensk (City of Women) Festival, 2019)
Renate
Berger Malerinnen auf dem Weg ins. 20 Jahrhundert: Kunstgeschichte also sozialgeschichte
(Cologne, DuMont, 1982)
Renate
Berger 'Und ich sehe nichtes,nichts als die Malerei'. Autobiographische Texte von Kunstlerinnen des 18. bis 20 Jahrhunderts
(Frankfurt am Main, 1987)
Karine
Bergès, Florence Binard, Alexandrine Guyard-Nedelec Féminismes du XXIe siècle : une troisième vague?
(Rennes : Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2017)
Renate
Bertlmann Amo Ergo Sum (3 Vols)
(Germany: Klagenfurt, Ritter Verlag, 1989)
Susan
Best Visualizing Feeling: Affect and the feminine avant-garde
(London: IB Tauris, 2011)
Susan
Best Visualizing Feeling, Affect and the Feminine Avant-garde
(I.B. Tauris, London, 2011)
Rosemary
Betterton Maternal bodies in the visual arts
(Manchester: Manchester University Press (1st ed. 2014), 2018)
Rosemary
Betterton An Intimate Distance: Women Artists and the Body
(London: Routledge, 1996)
More Review reproduced from Volume 1, n.paradoxa, Jan 1998. Katy Deepwell 'Short Reviews of New Publications' --- This book brings together ten years of Rosemary Betterton's writing on women artists : including conference papers, catalogue essays and articles. She describes the process of constructing the book as a 'gathering and reusing' of ideas : setting up an opposition between women's processes of working (parallel to their practice of patchwork) and the masculine model of academic 'mastery'. Feminism's 'central project of reframing and re-fashioning the body within a feminist politics of sexual difference' is, in her own words, central to the diverse areas she explores across the 20th Century. The idea of 'embodiment' plays a central role in the analysis she adopts, located at different historical moments and mapped in terms of conflicting ideologies in specific debates.
Chapters : 1. 'An Intimate Distance: Women,Artists and the Body'; 2. 'Mother Figures:The Maternal Nude in Kathe Kollwitz & Paula Modersohn-Becker' ; 3. ' "A Perfect Woman" : The Political Body of Suffrage ; 4. 'Bodies in the Work :The Aesthetics and Politicis of Women's Non-Representational Painting' : 5. 'Life and A.R.T:Methaphors of Motherhood and Assisted Reproductive Technologies': 6. 'Body Horror? Food (and Sex and Death) in Women's Art' : 7. 'Identities,Memories & Desires: The Body in History'.
Carla
Bianpoen Into the Future: Indonesian Women Artists
(Jakarta: Afterhours books, 2019)
Carla
Bianpoen, Farah Wardani, Wulan Dirgantoro Indonesian Women Artists
(Jakarta: Yayasan Semirupa Indonesia, 2007)
Elizabeth
Biasio 'The Burden of Women - Women Artists in Ethiopia' New Trends in Ethiopian Studies: Papers of the 12th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies
(New Brunswick: The Red Sea Press & Michigan State University, 1994)
Ursula
Biemann Been There and Back to Nowhere: Gender in Transnational Spaces (post-production documents, 1988-2000)
(Berlin: b_books, 2000)
More Review reproduced from Volume 7, n.paradoxa, Jan 2001. Katy Deepwell 'Short Book Reviews'
Ursula Biemann been there and back to nowhere: Geschlecht in transnationalen Orten/ Gender in Transnational Spaces.Postproduction Documents, 1988-2000. English and German text
Berlin: B books, 2000.
ISBN 3 933557 12 7
Documentation of the research, ideas and script of Performing the Border, Biemann's major videowork on women's exploitation - both economic and sexual - in the border zone between Mexico and the USA, forms the heart of this new publication. The book as a whole also documents several other major, often collaborative, projects, Global Food, Lexicon Hispanica, Afghan Collection, Kueltuer, Trafficking and Trading in which Biemann has worked as both producer and curator, e.g. at the Shedhalle, Zurich, pursuing different models of institutional critique in late consumer capitalism.Thought-provoking introductory essays by Avtah Brah and Yvonne Volkart explore trans-national identities in con-temporary art and culture. (See article by Biemann in n.paradoxa vol 4, July 1999)
Geraldine P.
Biller ed
Latin American Women Artists,1915-1995
(USA:Milwaukee Art Museum, 1995)
Susanne
Binas-PreisendOrfer Zur Merkliste hinzufügen Erfolgreiche KUnstlerinnen : Arbeiten zwischen Eigensinn und Kulturbetrieb
(Essen : Klartext-Verl, 2003)
Derek
Birdsall and Bruce Bernard Evelyn Williams: Works and Words
(London: Omnific, 1998)
More Review reproduced from Volume 2, n.paradoxa, July 1998. Katy Deepwell 'Book Reviews'
Derek Birdsall & Bruce Bernard (eds) intro: John McEwen.
Evelyn Williams:Works and Words London: Omnific,1998. ISBN 0 9532316 0 7
In spite of the introduction, and its two male editors, this book is dominated by the juxtaposition of Evelyn Williams' own words - drawn from her writings since 1990 - and large good-quality reproductions of her figurative sculptures, reliefs, drawings and paintings in the last twenty-six years. John McEwen seeks to position her solely in a long line of humanist, expressionist, figurative (all male) painters, poets and sculptors. It is as if, apart from one mention of the novelist Fay Weldon because it is the title of one of her paintings, women artists or feminism had no impact on this artist's life or the decisions she has taken and the what she treats her subjects. Yet, Evelyn Williams' subject is, in the tradition of expressionism coupled with a visionary tradition from Blake, the relationship of the artist to society, the individual to the mass and it is centred in a projection of that vision to the world through witnessing exterior emotion in physical gestures. In Evelyn's world, close interpersonal relationships of mother to daughter, and between lovers and friends form a major thread in her work. But there is another side to her work, that of the large group drawings of the mid-1980s where oppression, torture, imprisonment, images of mass demonstrations or repetitive conformity dominate. It is these qualities which make for a remarkable body of work and provide the interest in her accounts of incidents, decisions and objectives found in her work and words.
Jacqueline
Bishop Patchwork: Essays & Interviews on Caribbean Visual Culture
(Bristol: Intellect, 2023)
Michael
Blackwood (Director) Reclaiming the body : feminist art in America (DVD recording, not book, of Bad Girls' exhibitions and artists)
(Michael Blackwood Productions in association with Saarlandischer Rundfunk, 2005)
Debra J.
Blake Chicana sexuality and gender: cultural refiguring in literature, oral history, and art
(Durham : Duke University Press, 2008)
Lilianne
Blanc Elle sera Poete, elle aussi; les femmes et la creation artistique
(Paris: Diff. Inter-forum, 1991)
Rosana
Blanco Cano Cuerpos disidentes del México imaginado: cultura, género, etnia y nación más allá del proyecto posrevolucionario
(Madrid : Iberoamericana, 2010)
Joani
Blank ed
Femalia
(Last Gasp, San Francisco, 2012)
Jane
Blocker What the Body Cost: Desire, History, and Performance
(University of Minnesota Press, 2004)
Jane
Blocker Where is Ana Mendieta? Identity, Performance and Exile
(USA: Duke University Press, 1998)
Jane
Blocker Seeing Witness: Visuality and the Ethics of Testimony
(University of Minnesota Press, 2009)
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Jane Blocker Seeing Witness: Visuality and the Ethics of Testimony
University of Minnesota Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-8166-5477-2
This book is a very valuable contribution to debates about how the visual constructs knowledge and at the same time how problematic is the interpretation of what we see. The subject of the discussion is focused on what happens when we witness performance and installation artists' work as well as what it means to bear witness. Works discussed include: James Luna, Marina Abramovic/Ulay, Alfredo Jaar, Eduardo Kac, Christine Borland, Ann Hamilton to Feliz Gonzalez-Torres. In consdering how testimony figures in their work, Blocker is concerned to analyse how art has the capacity to challenge dominant accounts of events and question knowledge of the "real" in art's diverse production of representations and differences in regimes of representation.
Lisa
Bloom ed
With Other Eyes: Looking at Race and Gender in Visual Culture
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999)
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Lisa Bloom (ed.) With Other Eyes Looking at Race and Gender in Visual Culture
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,1999
ISBN 0-8166-3223-5
This anthology is offered as a course reader for an expanded notion of a feminist visual cultural studies within the academy. Essays from the 1990s by Inderpal Grewal, Francette Pacteau, Caren Kaplan, Ann Pellagrini, Irit Rogoff are republished alongside new work by Shawn Michelle Smith, Griselda Pollock, Aida Mancillas/Ruth Wallen/Marguerite R. Waller, Zoe Leonard/Cheryl Dunye, and Jennifer A. Gonzalez. This outlines a field in which gender,race and nationalism is explored alongside postnational aesthetics in a range of subjects from British Museum guide books to the Body Shop, to the work of Sutapa Biswas and Sandra Bernhard. Feminist methodology acts as the umbrella for these seemingly diverse explorations and as Lisa Bloom suggests in the introduction feminist readings of visual culture have tended to oscillate between two positions which she defines in terms of bell hooks's notion of 'oppositional looks' where the gaze functions as a site of resistance and the use of parody and imitation to provide a challenge to existing racist and sexist stereotypes. The essays go on provide more possibilities.
Lisa
Bloom Jewish Identities in American Feminist Art: Ghosts of Ethnicity
(London & New York: Routledge, 2006)
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Lisa E. Bloom Jewish Identities in American Feminist Art: Ghosts of Ethnicity
London & New York: Routledge, 2006 ISBN: 978-0-415-23221-0
Exploring both ' "an experience of marginality vis-a-vis whiteness and an experience of whiteness and belonging vis-a-vis blackness"', Bloom attempts to look at the contradictions and ambiguities of Jewishness as a secular form of ethnicity in American feminist art. Her book focuses on the contributions of Judy Chicago and Mierle Ukeles in the 1970s, Eleanor Antin and Martha Rosler but Bloom also discusses other contemporary feminist art practices in New York and California. Bloom takes great care to provide situated accounts of race, nationality and class in relation to American WASP identity and Jewish understandings of self in relation to this and anti-Semitism or stereotyping, while demonstrating how the contributions of earlier debates (Greenberg in particular) continue to haunt present attitudes.
Jacqueline
Bobo Black Women Film & Video Artists
(London: Routledge, 1998)
Jacqueline
Bobo Black feminist cultural criticism
(Malden, Mass. ; Oxford : Blackwell, 2001)
Stephen
Bode ed
Jananne Al-Ani
(London: Film and Video Umbrella, 2005)
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Stephen Bode (ed.) Jananne Al-Ani (London: Film and Video Umbrella, 2005) ISBN: 1-90427-014-x
This is a small edition catalogue, published to coincide with the completion of her Film and Video Umbrella commission, Muse (2004) and a touring exhibition of the artist's work. The catalogue documents Al-Ani's practice since 1991 as a photographer and video artist, especially the series of works which feature five women:- the artist, her mother and her three sisters and includes: Echo (1994/2004), A Loving Man (1996/1999), Reel (2001), Cradle (2001), She Said (2000); 1001 Nights (1998); Veil (1997). Against her development of works based around the faces, voices, movement of these five women, Muse initially represents a radical departure as its motif is a single man walking in a desert landscape, but it could also be seen as another extension of her family story - born in Iraq, living in England with an Iraqi father and Irish mother. While Al-Ani's works subtly reference her family history they are never directly autobiographical, they deal instead with the problems of communication; of word-games and story-telling; and of cultural (mis-)representation. The catalogue includes two essays by Angela Weight and Claire Doherty and an interview between the artist and Richard Hylton.
Monica
Bohm-Duchen ed.
Rubies and Rebels: Jewish Female Identity in Contemporary British Art
(Lund Humphries, 1996)
Barbara
Bolt Art Beyond Representation: The Performative Power of the Image
(London IB Tauris, 2004)
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Barbara Bolt Art Beyond Representation: The Performative Power of the Image London: IB Tauris, 2004 ISBN: 1 85043 411 5
This book, by an Australian based writer, is an enquiry into what happens in practice, in the heat of practice as experienced in painting,and sometimes writing, when the work takes on a life of its own. Questioning the interpretative framework in which visual art is only seen as representation, the book mounts a critique of representationalism to try and speak of other qualities in art: light, vision, execution, embodiment, ritual and transference. The ambition is to move towards a materialist ontology about practice, especially the experience where there is an exchange between imaging and reality. To this end she redeploys Heidegger, Deleuze and Guattari, CS Pierce and Judith Butler, and Paul Carter into her use of the term methexis for practice (to signal something of and beyond the radical material performativity of Indigenous Australian cultural productions).
Marie-Jo
Bonnet Les femmes dans l'art: qu'est-ce que les femmes ont apporté à l'art?
(Paris : Éditions de la Martinière, 2004)
Frances
Borzello Women Artists: A Graphic Guide
(London: Camden, 1986)
Frances
Borzello A World of Our Own: Women As Artists
(London: Thames and Hudson, 2000)
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Frances Borzello A World of Our Own: Women as Artists
Thames and Hudson, 2000 ISBN 0 500 23776X
Divided into 6 chapters, each introduced by a 'cast of characters' - either prominent women artists of the day or the subjects of feminist art history and recovery - Borzello spans 500 years of women's art production and examines a wide range of questions about women's self-identity as artists, their survival strategies, issues of representation and changing subject-matter, training and methods. Lavishly illustrated, it is written as an uplifting text of struggle, enthusiasm and enjoyment in their art, against the odds of financial hardship, indifference and discrimination. Given its breadth, it can offer only a limited selection of women, and as a history of women artists it bears comparison with Germaine Greer's The Obstacle Race or Linda Nochlin's and Ann Sutherland Harris's Women Artists 1550-1950.
Chukwuemeka
Bosah The Art of Nigerian Women
(Ohio: Ben Bosah, 2017)
Carol
Boulbès ed
Femmes, attitudes performatives
(Dijon : Les Presses du réel,, 2014)
Sylvia
Bovenschen Die Imaginierte Weiblichkeit. Exemparische Untersuchungen zu Kulturgeschichtlichen und literarischen Praesentationsformen des Weiblichen
(, 1979)
Lionel
Bovier, Douglas Eklund, Fabrice Stroun Ericka Beckman, The Super-8 Trilogy
(Zurich: JRP Ringier, 2013)
Johanna
Braun Hysterical methodologies in the arts : rising in revolt
(Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
Gisela
Breitling Die Spuren des Schiffs in den Wellen - eine autobiographische Suche nach den Frauen in der Kunstgesichte
(Berlin, 1980)
Gisela
Breitling Der Verborgene Eros - Weiblichkeit und Mannlichkeit im Zerrspeigel der Kunste
(Frankfurt, Aufsatze, 1990)
Deborah
Bright Photography & Sexuality: The Passionate Camera
(London: Routledge, 1997)
Susie
Bright and Jill Posener Nothing But the Girl: the Blatant Lesbian Image
(Cassell, 1996)
Martine
Brinkhuis Koppeltekens: vier Kunstenaarsparen vier Dialogen
(Amsterdam: In de Knipscheer, 1993)
Judith
Brodsky and Ferris Olin ed.
The fertile crescent : gender, art, and society
(New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Institute for Women and Art ; New York, N.Y. : Distributed by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, 2012)
Norma
Broude and Mary Garrard Introducing Feminist Art History (ebook)
(Amazon, 2014)
Julia R.
Brown, Radmila Stefkova, Tamara R. Williams Women Photographers and Mexican Modernity Framing the Twentieth Century
(Routledge, 2024)
Julia
Bryan-Wilson Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era
(University of California Press, 2011)
More This book has a chapter on Lucy Lippard's conception of Feminist labour
Julia
Bryan-Wilson Fray: Art and Textile Politics
(University of Chicago Press, 2017)
Anna
Brzyski ed
Partisan Canons
(Durham and London: Duke
University Press, 2007)
Elke Linda
Buchholz Künstlerinnen : von der Renaissance bis heute
(Munich: Prestel, 2003)
Rachel Epp
Buller ed
Reconciling Art and Mothering
(UK; Ashgate Publishing, 2012)
Noel
Burch and Helene Marquie eds
Emancipation sexuelle ou contrainte des corps ?
(Paris : L'Harmattan, 2006)
Lene
Burkard ed
Julie Roberts - in retro
(Odense: Kunsthallen Brandts, 2008)
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Lene Burkard (ed. and curator) Julie Roberts - in retro Odense: Kunsthallen Brandts, 2008 ISBN: 978-8777-66062-7
Lisbeth Bonde, Francis McKee, Lene Burkard and Lars Grambye contribute overviews of Julie Roberts' paintings since the early 1990s when she made her reputation with single, and rather sinister, images - often of hospital equipment - set against large backdrops (reminiscent of the 1990s paintings of Rita Duffy and Lisa Milroy). Since 2000 her painting has looked with increasingly irony at images of The Dead Artist or the Father of Evolution(Darwin); as well as re-examining myths of women's domesticity (1950s style), their nineteenth century art education and their family relationships in two series on the Dysfunctional Family and Girls painting.
Janine
Burke Field of Vision: A Decade of Change: Women's Art in the 1970's
(Australia: Viking, Victoria, 1990)
Johanna
Burton ed
Cindy Sherman
(October Files series
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT
Press, 2006)
Ilaria
Bussoni and Raffaella Perna eds
Il gesto femminista. La rivolta delle donne: nel corpo, nel lavoro, nell'arte (The feminist gesture. Women's revolt: body, work, art, 2014)
(, 2014)
Maria Elena
Buszek ed
Extra/Ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art
(Duke University Press, 2011)
Cornelia
Butler From Conceptualism to Feminism: Lucy Lippard's Numbers shows, 1969-1974
(London: Afterall Books, 2012)
Helen
C. Chapman ed
Memory in Perspective: Women Photographers Encounters with History
(Nexus Volume 3, London: Scarlet Press, 1997)
Claudia
Calirman Dissident Practices: Brazilian Women Artists, 1960s-2020s
(Duke University Press, 2023)
Sophie
Calle Exquisite Pain
(London: Thames and Hudson, French edition: Arles: Actes Sud, 2003)
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Sophie Calle Exquisite Pain London: Thames and Hudson, 2004/ in French , Actes Sud, Arles: 2003
ISBN: 0 550 51198 5
With pages framed in red and black marking the two halves of this artist's book, Calle traces the end of a love affair (fifteen years ago) as a result of taking a three month trip to Japan on a government travel grant. The first part is a 92 day countdown, a travel journal of her trip, while the second maps her own reaction to the end of the affair, marked by her lover failing to meet her in New Delhi hotel room, juxtaposed with the solace or consolation of other people's stories of suffering, loss and death. Exquisitely presented, witty and painful!
Sophie
Calle (Introduction: James Putnam) Appointment
(London: Thames and Hudson with Violette Editions.exhibition catalogue from London: Freud
Museum, 2005)
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Sophie Calle Appointment intro. James Putnam.
Thames and Hudson, 2005 with Violette Editions.exhibition catalogue from London: Freud Museum. ISBN: 0-500-51199-3
This artist's book presents a project from 1998 at the Freud Museum in London where the artist placed relics from her own life amongst Freud's possessions in his former London home. Juxtaposing a photograph of the object in situ with the story about her connection to the object, the artist relates elements from her own psycho-biography. This approach takes on a particular poignancy in the context of the Freud Museum where Freud moved in 1938 and reconstructed his study from Vienna. The museum displays objects from former patients (the Wolf man's paintings), his collection of books, African art and other works, like the infamous image of Gradiva, and these are often accompanied by museum labels carrying fragments of his analysis or from his writings. Calle's project echoes her other works with image and text, word and object associations, double games, and the ongoing pursuit of love combined with her investigations of sexual curiosity and the re-enactment of desire.
Margaret
Camus ed
Création au féminin. Volume 2, Arts visuels (Vol. 1, Littérature),(Vol. 3, Creation, 2007)
(Dijon : Éd. universitaires de Dijon, Kaleidoscope, 2006)
Marian L.F.
Cao Creacion artistica y mujeres recuperar la memoria
(Madrid: Narcea, 2000)
Susana
Carro Fernandez Mujeres de Ojos Rojos: Del arte feminista al arte femenino
(Trea, 2010)
Susana
Carro Fernández Mujeres de ojos rojos : del arte feminista al arte femenino
(Gijón : Trea, D.L., 2010)
Sue-Ellen
Case Feminist and Queer Performance: Critical Strategies
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
CEED (Central Eastern Europe) Feminisms Working Group CEED Feminisms Bibliography
(London: Cell Project Space, 2024)
Whitney
Chadwick Framed
(London: Macmillan, 1998)
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Whitney Chadwick Framed (London: Macmillan, 1998) ISBN 0-353-71950-6
If there are aspects of Art History which are akin to crime solving - trying to see with fresh eyes, collating evidence, and resolving questions through interpretation - then there are aspects of feminism which resemble a never-ending thriller - the frequent twists of the plot, the need to find out why all this outrageous stuff is happening, and the desire to see wrongs righted. It is hardly surprising, then, that most of the feminist art historians I know confess to loving thrillers with female protagonists. The sites of identification and fantasy are not hard to find: good woman finds bad mess, is jeopardised by bad men, and triumphantly restores order through her own wit and tenacity.
No wonder, then, that Framed by art historian Whitney Chadwick hits all the right buttons. Chadwick has created in Charlotte Whyte a character who is a nice mixture of independence, snottiness, and vulnerability. An art historian working in San Francisco, she is invited to hear a gay male colleague, Michael, lecture on David. The lecture never happens: Michael is murdered minutes before he is due to start. The grieving Charlotte is invited to finish Michael's work on a David catalogue, and manages to piece together not only the art history but also the murder mystery. Lacking the all-singing, all dancing scientific talents of Dr Kay Scarpetta (Patricia Cornwell's heroine), and the reams of accident-prone or conveniently employed relatives of V I Warschawski (in Sara Peretsky's books), Charlotte Whyte is a believable woman in a believable setting. Framed is marred in places by clumsy editing (it gives nothing away to say that the penultimate paragraph implies that the Arena chapel is in Tuscany), but would make a great holiday read.
Whitney
Chadwick The Militant Muse: Love, War and the Women of Surrealism
(Thames and Hudson, 2017)
Whitney
Chadwick, Bia Markel, Alexandra Reiff eds
Contemporary feminist studies and its relation to art history and visual studies (conference papers, 2007)
(Goteborg: Goteborg Universitet, 2010)
Suzanne
Chan Critical Diaspora: Women, Art and Migration
(London: IB Tauris, 2013)
Nicholas
Chare, Jeanette Hoorn, Audrey Yue eds
Re-reading the Monstrous-Feminine: Art, Film, Feminism and Psychoanalysis
(Routledge, 2019)
Myrel
Chernick and Jennie Klein The M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art
(Ontario: Demeter Press, 2011)
Eva-Maria
Chibici-Revneanu ed
Frauen in der Kunst
(Graz, Josef-Krainer-Haus, Bildungszentrum der ÖVP Steiermark, 1999)
Judy
Chicago Through the Flower: My Struggle as a Woman Artist
(NY:Garden City/Doubleday/ Anchor, 1986)
Judy
Chicago The Dinner Party: From Creation to Preservation
(London: Merrell, 2007)
Red
Chidgey Feminist Afterlives: Assemblage Memory in Activist Times
(Palgrave MacMillan, 2018)
Jane
Chin Davidson Staging art and Chineseness: The politics of trans/nationalism and global expositions
(Manchester University Press, 2019)
Kelly
Clark Keefe Invoking Mnemosyne: art, memory and the uncertain emergence of a feminist embodied mythology
(Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2010)
Danielle
Cliche and Ritva Mitchell, Andreas Joh. Weisand eds
Pyramid or Pillars: Unveiling the Status of Women in Arts and Media Professions in Europe
(Germany: ARCult Media/ERICarts/ZfKf, 2001)
Silvie
Coellier Lygia Clark (L'enveloppe) La fin de la modernite et le desir du contact
(Paris: L'Harmattan, 2003)
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Sylvie Coellier Lygia Clark (L'enveloppe) La fin de la modernite et le desir du contact (text in French) Paris:L'Harmattan,2003
ISBN: 2-7475-4408-7
A detailed account of the life and work of Lygia Clark (b. 1920, Brazil), this book offers an account of the intellectual positions and philosophy behind her work and its development of a tactile participatory form of sculpture. Central to her argument is a distinction made between enveloppement (a strategy pursued by many men in the representation of women) and l'enveloppe (Clark's): a distinction which rests on Luce Irigaray's appeal to an art which is not dependent on sight, but relies on the other senses.
Colectivo Ma Colère Mi cuerpo es un campo de batalla : [análisis y testimonios]
(València : Ediciones La Burbuja, 2007)
Judith
Collard 'Spiral Women: Locating Lesbian Activism in New Zealand Feminist Art, 1975-1992' Journal of the History of Sexuality Vol. 15, No. 2 (May, 2006), pp. 292-320
(University of Texas, 2006)
Josephine Penelope
Collet Women Contesting the Mainstream Discourses of the Art World
(New York: Lewiston: E Mellen Press, 2004)
Georgia
Collins and Renee Sandell Women, Art and Education
((USA) National Art Education Association , 1984)
Georgia
Collins and Renee Sandell eds
Gender issues in art education : content, contexts, and strategies
(Reston, Va. : National Art Education Association, 1996)
Victoria
Combalía Amazonas con pincel 2
(Spain: SD, 2022)
Joan
Copjec Imagine There's No Woman: Ethics and Sublimation
(Cambridge, Mass: MIT press, 2003)
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Joan Copjec Imagine There's No Woman:Ethics and Sublimation
Cambridge, Mass: MIT press, 2003 ISBN: 0-262-03299-6
Starting from Lacan's famous proposition about female sexuality ,'the Woman does not exist', Copjec demonstrates how Freud's attempts to define a theory of sublimation were restructured by Lacan as the key to his ethics. His ostensible negative proposition about women's existence, Copjec argues, is not to be taken as a nominalist denunciation of another universal but as an instance of how thought posits and creates difference. The difference she goes on to explore is between views of the same object but the split which structures the object to itself, an area she explorse especially well in the gap between the real and its representations.
This analysis Copjec pursues through a variety of case studies in film, contemporary art, and philosophical or psychoanalyical readings, interwoven as always with her detailed analysis of theoretical points drawn from psychoanalysis, analysis of tropes/metaphors and broader social and political concerns. Her reading of Kara Walker positions her beyond the negative press as a manipulator of stereotypes to an artist calculating offering a doubleplay of negation as the founding of a modern identity - critiquing her own "inner plantation" - yet very much attached to coming to terms with and distancing herself (and us) from a historical past through its nostalgic representations in Americana.
Other topics discussed in this book include: the figure of Antigone; Stella Dallas; Cindy Sherman's film stills; Kant's concept of radical evil; Pasolini's film Salo; the film noir classic Laura; and the Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination.
Vanessa
Corby Eva Hesse: longing,belonging and displacement
(London: IB Tauris, 2010)
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Vanessa Corby Eva Hesse: longing,belonging and displacement London: IB Tauris, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-84511-544-9
Taking as its point of departure two drawings from 1960/1961, Corby seeks to explore their role as 'bearers of subjectivity' and develop a new reading of Hesse against the climate of her time and the impact of the Holocaust.
Karen
Cordero Reiman and Ivan Acebo Choy Sin Centenario ni bicentenario: revoluciones alternas
(Mexico: Universidad Iberoamericana, 2009)
John
Corso Esquivel Feminist Subjectivities in Fiber Art and Craft: Shadows of Affect
(Routledge, 2019)
COSAW Women's Collective Like a House on Fire: Contemporary Women's Writing, Art & Photography from South Africa
(S.Africa: Fordsaw: COSAW Publishing, 1994)
Laura
Cottingham Seeing Through the Seventies: Essays on Feminism and Art
(Amsterdam: G+B Arts International, 2000)
Paul
Couillard ed
Ironic to Iconic: The Performance of Tanya Mars
(Toronto: FADO performance, 2008)
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Paul Couillard (ed) Ironic to Iconic: The Performance of Tanya Mars
Toronto: FADO Performance, 2008 Book and DVD.
Tanya Mars' exemplary, fascinating and humorous performances from the 1970s to the present day are documented in this new book. The accompanying DVD profiles her site-specific work Tyranny of Bliss (2004). Mars is co-editor (with Joanna Householder) of Caught in the Act (Toronto: YYZ, 2004), a major anthology of performance art by Canadian women artists. Mars was recently awarded The Governor General's Award for Media and Visual Arts in Canada.
Mars contributed the script of her performance Pure Virtue, based on an ironic look at Queen Elizabeth I, to n.paradoxa About Time vol 5 (2000).
Margaret
Courtney-Clarke Tableaux d'Afrique: l'art Mural des Femmes de l'Ouest
(Paris: Arthand, 1980)
Elizabeth
Cowie Representing the Woman
(University of Minnesota Press, 1996)
Christine
Craig The Changing Status of Women in the Arts: A Preliminary Reference
(Kingston,Jamaica: Women's Bureau, 1975)
Abigail
Crompton ed
Truth Bomb: Inspirations from the mouths and minds of women artists
(Thames and Hudson, 2021)
Laboria
Cuboniks The Xenofeminist Manifesto: A Politics for Alienation
(London: Verso, 2018)
Tricia
Cusack, Síghle Bhreathnach-Lynch eds
Art, Nation and Gender: Ethnic Landscapes, Myths and Mother-Figures (1st ed. 2003)
(Routledge, 2017)
Cutting Edge Research Group Digital Desires: Language, Identity and New Technologies
(London: IB Tauris, 2000)
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Cutting Edge Women's Research Group
Digital Desires: Language, Identity and New Technologies London: IB Tauris, 2000 ISBN 1 86064 575 5
Cyberbodies,cyborgs, cyberfeminism, women's work in/using computers, virtual spaces, artificial life and gendered language/ identities in the digital domain are some of the issues tackled by this book and its numerous contributors. Cutting Edge is based at Westminster University (London) and these papers were given at one of their conferences.
Aline
Dallier, Frank Popper Réflexions sur l'exil, l'art et l'Europe : entretiens avec Aline Dallier
(Paris : Klincksieck, 1998, )
Aline
Dallier-Popper, Claudine Romeo (interview) Art, féminisme, post-féminisme: un parcours de critique d'art
(Paris : L'Harmattan, 2009)
Pen
Dalton The Gendering of Art Education: Modernism, Identity and Critical Feminism
(Buckingham, Open University, 2001)
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Pen Dalton
The Gendering of Art Education: Modernism, Identity and Critical Feminism
Buckingham, Philadelphia: Open University, 2001
0-335-19648-9
This is a thoughtful and engaging book for art educators, especially for feminist practitioners trying to re-consider the legacy of modernist practices in the art school and find other models in art education. Retracing the history of modernist art education with a critical feminist perspective and close attention to its gendering of disciplines and practices, Pen Dalton exposes its production of a division of labour in creativity and design methods and approaches. Her reassessment of these strategies and outline of other potential directions, given postmodernism, offers new lines of enquiry and practical ideas for women lecturers teaching in the studio.
Lisa
Darms ed
The Riot Grrrl Collection
(Feminist Press, 2013)
Elif
Darstarli and F. Melis Cin Feminist Art in Resistance: Aesthetics, Methods and Politics of Art in Turkey
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Flaudette May V.
Datuin Home, Body, Memory: Filipina Artists in the Visual Arts,19th Century to the Present
(Quezon City: University of Philippines Press, 2002)
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Flaudette May V. Datuin Home, Body, Memory: Filipina Artists in the Visual Arts,19th Century to the Present. Quezon City: University of Philippines Press, 2002. ISBN: 971-542-346-9
Datuin engages with semiotics and a materialist feminist analyses to reframe the history of Filipina artists in terms of home, body and memory. She argues that the feminine is a feminist "elsewhere" and pursues the important distinction between the feminist and the feminine to open up different approaches within her main analysis. Her notion of "elsewhere" draws on Theresa de Lauretis notion of a "space-off" (via Griselda Pollock's use of the term), described as determining a feminist perspective in relation to the canon and patriarchy. Datuin uses the term to try and describe the differences amongst women, situating the feminine as a site of contestation within a specifically Filipina perspective. What is interesting about this book is not just the factual insights into the work of a wide range of Filipina artists but the ways in which Datuin is negotiating feminist theory (largely European and American) for her own ends and remapping a fragmented and dispersed history through original research. She looks closely at the emergence of the Kasibulan and Kalayaan women's organisations in the late 1980s and the work they did which included holding conferences, events and all-women exhibitions to promote Filipina artists. Twentieth century artists discussed in the book under the main themes of home, body, memory include: Imelde Cajipe-Endaya, Areceli Limcaoco-Dans, Lani Maestro, Ofelia Gelvezon-Tequi, Brenda Fajardo, Lydia Ingle, Irma Lacorte, Cristina Taniguchi, Agnes Arellano, Cecil de Leon, Ma. Angelica Bunoan and Karen Flores.
Karen Mary
Davalos Exhibiting mestizaje : Mexican (American) museums in the diaspora
(Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2001)
Cecily
Davis Women Artists of Australia
(Balwyn,Victoria: Five Milk Press, 1992)
Heather
Davis DESIRE CHANGE: Contemporary Feminist Art in Canada
(McGill-Queen's University: Mentoring Artists for Women's Art, Canada, 2017)
More Publicity statement about this book:
'In the resistance to the violence of gender-based oppression, vibrant – but often ignored – worlds have emerged, full of nuance, humour, and beauty. Correcting an absence of writing about contemporary feminist work by Canadian artists, Desire Change considers the resurgence of feminist art, thought, and practice in the past decade by examining artworks that respond to themes of diversity and desire.
Essays by historians, artists, and curators present an overview of a range of artistic practices including performance, installation, video, textiles, and photography. Contributors address the desire for change through three central frames: how feminist art has significantly contributed to the complex understanding of gender as it intersects with sexuality and race; the necessary critique of patriarchy and institutions as they relate to colonization within the Canadian nation-state; and the ways in which contemporary critiques are formed and expressed. The resulting collection addresses art through an activist lens to examine intersectional feminism, decolonization, and feminist institution building in a Canadian context.'
Alicia Gaspar
de Alba, Alma López eds.
Our Lady of Controversy (Alma Lopez)
(University of Texas, 2011)
Ellen
de Bruijne ed
L.A.Raeven: Analyse/Research
(Hatje Cantz, 2010)
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Ellen de Bruijne (ed) L.A.Raeven: Analyse/Research Paris Hatje Cantz, 2010 ISBN: 978-3-7757-2706-8
L.A. Raeven aka twin sisters Liesbeth and Angelique have for ten years in a variety of performance and video projects investigated the ideal body shape, mediated by fashion trends, culture, ballet and advertising. This book documents their approach as "artist/researchers" as they explore the effects of women's attempts to match these ideals through women's self-control, surgery, eating dis-orders and strange and obsessive behaviours to present, secure and deliver their image of ultimate femininity.
Serrano
de Haro Mujeres en el Arte
(Barcelona: Plaza and Janes, 2000)
Rocío
de la Villa Crítica de arte desde una perspectiva de género
(Colección Textos Mínimos, Universidad de Málaga, 2021)
Catherine
de Zegher and Griselda Pollock eds
Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger: Art as Compassion
(Belgium: ASA publishers and MER, Paper Kunsthalle, 2011)
Francoise
d'Eaubonne Historie de l'art et lutte des sexes
(Paris: Edition de la difference, 1977)
Katy
Deepwell ed
De-/Anti-/Post-colonial Feminisms in Contemporary Art and Textile Crafts
(KT press, 2023)
Katy
Deepwell Dialogues: Women Artists from Ireland
(London: IB Tauris, 2005)
Katy
Deepwell ed
Feminist Art Activisms and Artivisms
(Netherlands: Valiz, 2020)
More Editor: Katy Deepwell
Contributors: Linda Aloysius, Marissa Begonia, Sreyashi Tinni Bhattacharyya, Marisa Carnesky, Paula Chambers, Amy Charlesworth, Emma Curd, Katy Deepwell, Tal Dekel, Emma Dick, Lior Elefant, Christine Eyene, Abbe Leigh Fletcher, GraceGraceGrace, Alana Jelinek, Sonja van Kerkhoff, Alexandra Kokoli, Elke Krasny, Loraine Leeson, Laura Malacart, Rosy Martin, Alice Maude-Roxby, Kathleen Mullaniff, Louise O?Hare, Tanja Ostojic, Martina Pachmanová, Gill Park, Pune Parsafar, Roxane Permar, Anne Robinson, Stefanie Seibold, Pam Skelton, Mare Tralla, Christina Vasileiou, Camille Melissa Waring, Michelle Williams Gamaker, Virginia Yiqing Yang
Design: Lotta Lara Schröder
Series: PLURAL
?Feminisms? (as a plural) is widely used today to draw attention to inequalities and to critique the status quo in limiting women?s roles/ positions/ lives/ potential. Art can offer a vision of future worlds, manifesting a desire for projecting change, playing with existing realities and conventions. Feminist Art Artivism and Activism, two sides of the same coin, arise where art approaches, develops or transforms into activism and vice versa, where activisms become artivisms. In both, art emerges in differing forms of political intervention, at both an individual, shared or collective level, apparent in actions, events, identifications and practices.
This volume wants to reveal the diversity of these practices and realities. Representing a range of critical insights, perspectives and practices from artists, activists, curators, academics and writers, it explores and reflects on the enormous variety of feminist interventions in the field of contemporary art, social processes, the public sphere and politics. In doing so, Feminist Art Activisms and Artivisms touches upon broader questions of cultural difference, history, class, economic position, ecology, politics, sexual orientation, and the ways in which these intersect.
Richly illustrated with c. 300 black and white illustrations and photos.
Vidya
Dehejia Representing the Body: Gender Issues in Indian Art
(Delhi, Kali, 1997)
Tal
Dekel Gendered: Art and Feminist Theory
(Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013)
Tal
Dekel Transnational Identities: Women, Art, and Migration in Contemporary Israel
(USA: Wayne State University Press, 2016)
Johanna
Demetrakas (Director) Womanhouse [videorecording about the Feminist Art Program of the California Institute of the Arts] (originally made in 1974)
(New York: Women Make Movies, 2006)
Rosalyn
Deutsche Not-Forgetting: Contemporary Art and the Interrogation of Mastry
(University of Chicago Press, 2022)
Rosalyn
Deutsche Not-Forgetting Contemporary Art and the Interrogation of Mastery
(University of Chicago Press, 2022)
Angela
Dimitrakaki Gender, artWork and the global imperative: A materialist feminist critique
(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013)
Wulan
Dirgantoro Feminisms and Contemporary Art in Indonesia: Defining Experiences
(Amsterdam University Press, 2017)
Yvonne P.
Doderer DOING BEYOND GENDER. Interviews zu Positionen und Praxen in Kunst, Kultur und Medien.
(Münster: Monsenstein & Vannerdat, 2008)
Ronald
Dotterer, S. Kraft and S. Bowers eds
Politics, Gender and the Arts: Women, the Arts and Society
(Selingrove, Philadelphia: Susquehanna University Press, 1988, 1992)
Gen
Doy Seeing and Consciousness: Women, Class and Representation
(Oxford: Berg, 1995)
Jennifer
Doyle Sex objects : art and the dialectics of desire
(Minneapolis, Minn. ; London : University of Minnesota Press, 2006)
Nicole
Dubreuil-Blondin 'Feminism and Modernism Paradoxes' in B.Buchloh, S.Guilbaut, D.Solkin (eds) Modernism and Modernity: Vancouver Conference Papers
(Nova Scotia College of Art and Design Press, 1983)
Fabienne
Dumont Des sorcières comme les autres: artistes et féministes dans la France des années 1970
(Rennes: Presse Universite de Rennes, 2014)
Fabienne
Dumont Des sorcieres comme les autres - Artistes et feministes dans la France des annees 1970
(Rennes, PUR, 2014)
Carol
Duncan The aesthetics of power : essays in the critical art history
(Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1993)
Dinah
Dysart and Hannah Fink Asian Women Artists
(Australia: Craftsman House, 1996)
More Review reproduced from Volume 1, n.paradoxa, Jan 1998. Katy Deepwell 'Short Reviews of New Publications' - This book attempts to cover aspects of women artist's work in China, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, India, Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia and Vietnam. This is a tall order given the range of work and the numbers of women artists in Asia. The essays vary widely between analyses of the emergence of feminism (often identified and described through theoretical models of Western feminism with the occasional references to post-colonial and post-structuralist theories) and case studies of individual women artists. The book is beautifully illustrated and reproduces an incredible diversity of work. Where it is frustrating is in its omission of details and footnotes and bibliographic references which would encourage greater research. Nevertheless the material is fascinating including a description of the only women's art gallery in Asia: the Senwati Gallery in Bali,Indonesia founded in 1991(but no address!) ; and the feminist groups called 'Hyung'sang' and '30 Carat' in Korea (no contact or details of joint exhibitions or work!). Many of the women artists discussed are starting to be shown in international biennals (from Venice to the Asia-Pacific triennal,Australia) and major group exhibitions, such publications can only fuel this development and the dissemination of knowledge about their work.
Essays include:- Jane Chia 'Trouble at Hand: Singapore Women Artists' ; Xu Hong 'Dialogue: The Awakening of Chinese Women's Consciousness' ; Kim Hong Hee 'Sex and Sensibility: Women's Art & Feminism in Korea' ; James B.Lee 'Yi Bul :The Korean Installation Artist'; Yang Wen-I 'A Banana is not A Banana: The New Women Artists of Taiwan' ; Anna Kirker 'Poised in Equilibrium: Irene Chou' ; Yuri Mitsuda 'Flowers for Wounds: Contemporary Japanese Women Artists' ; Helen Michaelson 'Traces of Memory: Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook' ; Ana P.Labrador 'Beyond the Fringe: Making it as a Contemporary Filipina Artist' ; Astri Wright 'Undermining the order of the Javanese Universe: the self-portraits of Kartika Affandi-Koberl' and 'A Woman's Place: the Senwati Gallery in Bali' ; Martinus Dwi Marianto 'Srikandi,Marsinah & Megawati: Lucia Hartini' ; Nora Taylor 'Invisible Painters: North Vietnamese artists from the revolution to Doi Moi' ; Gayatri Sinha 'Indian Women Artists' ; Nilima Shekh 'Materialising Dream: Arpita Singh'.
Laura
E. Perez Eros Ideologies: Writings on Art, Spirituality, and the Decolonial.
(Duke University Press, 2019)
Elizabeth
Eastmond and M. Penfold Women and the Arts in New Zealand
(Auckland: Harmondsworth, UK; Penguin, 1986)
Lucinda
Ebersole and Diane Apostolos-Cappadonna Women Creativity and the Arts: Critical & Autbiographical Perspectives
(New York: Continuum, 1995)
Michi
Ebner Genie, Kunst & Identität : Lebensentwürfe und Strategien bildender Künstlerinnen
(Frankfurt, M. ; Berlin ; Bern ; Bruxelles ; New York, NY ; Oxford ; Wien : Lang , 2010)
Michi
Ebner Genie, Kunst & Identitat : Lebensentwürfe und Strategien bildender Kunstlerinnen
(Frankfurt-am-Main: Lang, 2010)
Mary Beth
Edelson The Art of Mary Beth Edelson
(New York: Seven Cycles, 2002)
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Mary Beth Edelson The Art of Mary Beth Edelson New York: Seven Cycles, 2002
ISBN: 0-9604650-6-5
Like her famous poster Some Living American Women Artists/Last Supper, this book is a rich, multilayered collage of critical essays; documentation of works; interviews by Edelson of other women artists about the changing face of feminism in the US and attempts to map her own history in a stylish and graphic manner. Designed by the artist herself, the book as a whole tracks many different phases and bodies of work in the artist's thirty, nearly forty, years of exhibitions and art production. These include her later works about women in film; her activist contribution to WAC, Heresies, Chrysalis, New York Soho Artists co-operatives; her poster series on women artists; her performance work; as well as her activist projects like Combat Zone (against violence against women) and StoryGatheringBoxes. E.Ann Kaplan , Laura Cottingham and Alissa Rame Friedman provide some of the short essays in this anthology of Edelson's life and her work.
Sylvia
Eiblmayr Die Frau als Bild: Der Weibliche Korper in der Kunst des 20 Jahrhunderts
(Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, 1993)
Silvia
Eiblmayr Zehn Jahre: Galerie im Taxispalais / Ten Years: Galerie im Taxispalais
Dokumentation 1999-2008
(Austria: Galerie im Taxispalais, 2008)
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Silvia Eiblmayr Zehn Jahre: Galerie im Taxispalais / Ten Years: Galerie im Taxispalais Dokumentation 1999-2008 Innsbruck: Galerie im Taxispalais, 2008
Text in German and English ISBN: 978-3-7082-3283-8
Documenting 11 years of work at the Galerie im Taxispalais by one of the most outstanding feminist curators in Europe (who is also responsible for the Austrian pavilion this year at the Venice Biennale) this is an unusual book. Eiblmayr's work has contributed to the international reputation of this publicly-funded gallery in Innsbruck, but under her leadership, the gallery has also resolutely put forward exhibitions as arguments and as interventions in what is seen or known in current contemporary art debates, deliberately and thoughtfully furthering debates or reconsidering key political/aesthetic questions: on leisure/survival, on work (Arbeit), on the concept of Suture, and on The Wounded Diva. Eiblmayr also organised many significant one-person shows of Eastern European women artists: Milica Tomic, Sanja Ivekovic, Jasmila Zbanic, Ana Lupas, Greta Bratescu, Sejla Kameric, in a programme in which half the solo exhibitions were by women. These included exhibitions of VALIE EXPORT, Eva Schlegel, Dorit Margreiter, Atusko Tanaka, Michaela Melian, Helena Almeida, Ketty La Rocca, Ellen Gallagher, Laura Horelli, Carol Rama, Charlotte Posensnska, Carola Dertnig, Esther Stocker, Isa Genzken, Ulrike Lienbacher, Charlotte Salomon, Hedrun Holzfeind, Katerina Seda and Monika Schwitte.
Silvia
Eiblmayr and Dirk Snauwaert, Ulrich Wilmes, Matthias Winzen eds
Die verletzte Diva: Hysterie, Korper, Technik in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts/The Wounded Diva: Hysteria, Body and Technique in Twentieth Century Art
(Koln: Oktagon, 2000)
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Silvia Eiblmayr, Dirk Snauwaert, Ulrich Wilmes and Matthias Winzen (eds.) Die verletzte Diva: Hysterie, Korper, Technik in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts / The Wounded Diva: Hysteria, Body and Technique in Twentieth Century Art
Koln: Oktagon, 2000
Text: German and English
ISBN 3-89611-088-8
This valuable and fascinating book, a must for scholars on this subject, was published to accompany an exhibition at the Munich Kunstverein and touring to Baden-Baden June-August 2000. It makes available a new set of commentaries upon the subjects of hysteria, women/machine/medium, and the category of the abject. Republishing texts by Gilles Deleuze on 'Hysteria'; Klaus Theweleit on epidemics of hysteria, Slavoj Zizek on identification and the sublime, provides a context and opens up a space for the newer and largely more feminist essays on the subject by Silvia Eiblmayr, Christina Von Braun ('Voice of Diva'), Elisabeth Bronfen ('The Language of Infirmity'), Georges Didi-Hubermann, Peter Gorsen, Thomas Lischeid, Kate Meyer-Drawe ('Camouflaged Sensibility'), Irit Rogoff, Karin Sagner-Duchting and Matthais Winzen.
Kate
Eichhorn The Archival Turn in Feminism: Outrage in Order (Riot Grrrls)
(Temple University Press, 2013)
Daly
Eileen and Melanie Keen eds
Necessary Journeys
(Arts Council of England: Decibel, Blackworld, 2005)
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Melanie Keen & Eileen Daly (eds) Necessary Journeys Arts Council of England: Decibel, Blackworld, 2005
ISBN:0-7287-112-5
An arts project about travel and migration in film, photography and writing organised through journeys and residences at the archives of British Film Institute and University of Central England and Birmingham Central Library. New commissions from women artists (33% of those invited) include: Oreet Ashery (Israel/Palestine); Margareta Kern (Bosnia/Herzogovina); Jackie Kay (poet); and susan pui san lok.
Kathryn
Elder ed
The Films of Joyce Wieland
(Toronto: Cinematheque Ontario, 1999)
ELIA Artemisia - Boosting Gender Equality in Higher Arts Education
(ELIA, 2000 )
Jane
Elizabeth Lavery, Sarah Bowskill, Thea Pitman eds
The Multimedia Works of Contemporary Latin American Women Artists and Writers: 4 (Tamesis Studies in Popular and Digital Cultures)
(Tamesis Books, 2023)
Lauren
Elkin Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
(Chatto and Windus, 2023)
Catherine
Elwes Video Loupe: a collectin of essays by and about the videomaker and critic Catherine Elwes
(London: KT Press, 2000)
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Video Loupe: a collection of essays by and about the videomaker and critic Catherine Elwes KT press, 2000 ISBN 0 9536541 0 9
When there is currently a renewed attempt in the UK to bring to a new audience/generation the ideas and work from the 1970s, as evident in the Whitechapel exhibition Live in Your Head, the publication of Video Loupe is apt and timely. It is significant in two respects: firstly, because we still have a society, that for all its liberal ideology, finds issues raised from the feminist perspective both marginal and irksome - in fact, not just the issues but the very idea of feminism itself - and secondly, because it is a small one-woman publisher who offers us the republished works of this feminist artist/writer.
Years ago, realising that nobody was going to review her work with any clarity and understanding the issues raised in her work and others like her, Catherine Elwes began to write about video and performance work,in particular, that of women. Elwes sets the agenda herself with the statement:
'Performance, independent film and video all contributed to the critical, counter-culture environment of the 1970s and the early 1980s, but it was the existence of feminist politics as an active force within society that convinced me I could exploit video as a vehicle for my creativity from a gendered position.'
Her first published letter to Art Monthly in 1981, for example, outlines the failings in a review of two shows by women, Women's Images of Men, and the show of women artists at the ACME gallery in Shelton Street, and is a brilliant and systematic criticism of the lack of any understanding about what was actual being shown. From then on, one notes that Elwes's own writing was published more often in the magazine. How could they refuse? She said it all so clearly and the questions, raised in her reviews and essays, still need to be asked today.
The strength in Elwes' writing comes from her ability to locate the work she reviews in a broader context, outlining its historical background and contrasting it with other works to bring out many pertinent issues and ideas, especially in relation to a feminist schedule. In her reviews of primarily video works, she notes quite clearly the pitfalls of narcissism inherent in the medium and the lack of any political agenda in many of today's artists' work. She is able to negotiate with some clarity the work of the new generation of yBa's (young British artists) performance work and installations in relation to the previous generation. It is the lack of a political agenda, she notes, that sets the work of older women artists apart and gives their work bite. The message is simple "Know your history! Or we are doomed to keep reinventing the wheel!"
I often look at young women artists today, as a teacher and as an older woman, and I am proud of their confidence and the ideas in the work that they do, but I am aware how few reviews of their work link it to women's art history or a feminist perspective. Too often women artists start discussions around relevant issues with the opening statement 'I am not a feminist but…' in order to distance themselves from the negative associations that have been placed on feminism. However despite my enjoyment of her writing, I am critical of how the book is constructed, as it would have flowed better without the reviews of Elwes' 'wn video work which the book also documents. These selected reviews do not enhance her reputation as an artist or add to what she has to say as a critic. With the exception of the commissioned introduction essays that frame the context of the book, the writing on her work is redundant and does her no favours. If anything it muddies the waters and weakens the overall structure and flow. In contrast the essays by Lisa Steele, Jeremy Welsh and Julia Knight have an intellectual weight and clarity that compliment and extend an understanding of her work.
I read sections of the book to my evening students. A good thought provoker for them was 'Women and Technoculture','first published in Variant. The excitement of the ensuing discussions and debate amongst them was revealing. They also enjoyed her analysis with Jacqueline Morreau of the show Women's'Images of Men. I dug out the catalogue of the show from my collection and brought it to the next class. It was well received. But the longest debate and ensuing discussion came out of her letter to Art Monthly called 'Feminism & Political Elitism' 'p. 43). Too often when feminist ideals are mentioned, minds are turned off. The popular press in the UK has done a very good job of trivialising the whole feminist agenda. Yet the same issues are still very alive, as was illustrated by my evening students, who from their diverse social and economic backgrounds, debated and understood quite clearly what she had to say. They found the ideas exciting, pertinent and applicable to their own life experiences. I say this in all seriousness, for after reading this new book on her writings and her work, one is left with the desire that more people should know about it.
Perin
Emel Yavuz Genre, féminisme et valeur de l'art
(Paris : L'Harmattan, 2009)
Brigitte
Enzner-Probst Frauenliturgien als Performance : die Bedeutung von Corporealität in der liturgischen Praxis von Frauen
(Neukirchen-Vluyn : Neukirchener , 2008)
Nicole
Erin Morse Selfie Aesthetics: Seeing Trans Feminist Futures in Self-Representational Art
(Duke University Press, 2022)
Marian
Evans 'Lesbian landscapes : a little oral history' Women's Studies Journal (2001)vol.17 no.1:p.102-119
(, 2001)
Laura
Fantone Local Invisibility, Postcolonial Feminisms: Asian American Contemporary Artists in California
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
Lisa E.
Farrington Creating their Own Image: the history of African-Americam Women Artists
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005)
Phoebe
Farris ed
Women Artists of Colour: A bio-critical Sourcebook to 20th Century Artists in the Americas
(Westport, Conneticut: Greenwood Press, 1990)
Fariba
Farshad Masques of Shahrazad: Three Generations of Iranian Women Artists
(London: Candlestar, 2009)
Catherine
Fehily and Jane Fletcher, Kate Newton I Spy: Representations of Childhood
(London: I. B. Tauris, 2000)
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Catherine Fehily, Jane Fletcher and Kate Newton
I Spy: Representations of Childhood
London: I.B. Tauris, 2000
ISBN 1-86064-384-1
IRIS, the women's photography project at Staffordshire University co-ordinated and developed this lavishly produced and well-illustrated publication with essays by Val Williams, Melissa Benn, Jane Fletcher and Patricia Holland. The work of professional women photographers from the US, UK and Ireland, Caroline Molloy, Cath Pearson, Catherine Fehily and Wendy Ewald, is Review reproduced alongside photographs by children from the Holly Street Public Art Trust where children document their own experience of childhood alongside the adult view of either a remembered childhood or their own children. The essays in the book touch on the controversy surrounding Sally Mann's photographs; the work of women and feminist photographers in their real and reconstructed photographs of childhood and the problematic questions surrounding distinguishing a paedophilic gaze or exploitation of children from a more positive representation of children's lives in photography, given the widespread concern today about child abuse.
Zdenek
Felix and Martina Pachmanova eds
Martha Rosler: Photographic Works, 1965-2008
(Prague: Langhams Galerie, 2008)
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Martha Rosler: Photographic Works, 1965-2008
Essays by Zdenek Felix, Martina Pachmanova (Prague: Langhans Galerie, 2008)
ISBN: 978080-902816-5-3
This catalogue surveying forty years of Rosler's practice in photography is the first exhibition of the artist in the Czech Republic. Martina Pachmanova, whose two anthologies in Czech have done much to introduce ideas about feminist art to the local scene, wrote the introductory essay offering an overveiw of her practices and her feminism. Text is in Czech and English.
Nina
Felshin But is It Art? : The Spirit of Art as Activism
(Seattle,Bay Press, 1995)
Femen, Galia Ackerman Femen
(Polity, 2014)
Mathilde
Ferrer and Yves Michard eds
Feminisme, art et histoire de l'art
(Paris: Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, 1994)
Agnese
Fidecaro and Stephanie Lachat eds
Profession : créatrice: la place des femmes dans le champ artistique
(Switzerland: Lausanne : Éd. Antipodes/ Universite de Geneve, 2007)
Jill
Fields ed
Entering the Picture: Judy Chicago, The Fresno Feminist Art Program and the Collective Visions of Women Artists.
(New York: Routledge, 2012)
Karen
Finley Shut Up and Love Me
(Artspace Books, 1998)
Penny
Florence Sexed Universals in Contemporary Art
(New York: Allworth Press, 2004)
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Penny Florence Sexed Universals in Contemporary Art New York: Allworth Press, 2004 ISBN: 158115 313 9
Focusing on close readings and comparisons of traits in both male and female artists, this book is best summed up by one of its quotations: Penelope Deutscher's 'The point of some contradictory positions is their contradictory status'. The concept of a sexed universal is itself paradoxical and the interpretation slips between concepts of a universal (acknowledged as male, with a view to feminist critique), and Irigaray's ideas of sexual difference (which are not wholly embraced), becoming occasionally a female universal, a feminine universal and sexed as both male and female, with full acknowledgement of social.cultural belief systems. The routes discussed as well as the choices of examples are interesting: Barbara Hepworth is juxtaposed with Constantin Brancusi , Anish Kapoor and Liz Larner; Lynn Lapointe with Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe.
Rebecca
Fortnum British Women Artists
(London: IB Tauris, 2007)
Alicia
Foster Tate Women Artists
(London: Tate Publishing, 2004)
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Alicia Foster
Tate Women Artists London: Tate Publishing, 2004 ISBN: 1-85437-311-0
The Tate Collection currently owns works by 316 women artists (11%) compared to the 2,600 men. Very few of these women are represented by more than one work and their works form only 7% of the collection's total. When the Tate opened in 1897 only five of the 253 pictures in the new gallery were by women. Women artists are proportionately better represented in the twentieth century, although the collection has works dating from the seventeenth century. This book documents the presence of women in the collection and offers 250 short portraits of the women artists and their work in this major collection.
Lauren
Fournier Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism
(MIT, 2021)
Jean
Franco Plotting Women,Gender & Representation in Mexico
(London, 1989)
Frauen Museum, Bonn Dritte Kunstmarkt der Kunstlerinnen
(Bonn: Frauen Museum, 1986)
Frauen sehen Sich Selbst Frauen sehen Sich Selbst
(Hamburg, 1979)
Kristen
Frederickson and Sarah Webb eds
Singular Woman: Writing the artist: the politics of rediscovery: the monograph and feminist art history
(University of California Press, 2003)
Annegret
Friedrich ed
Projektionen - Rassismus und Sexismus in der visuellen Kultur
(Marburg : Jonas-Verl. , 1997)
Flavia
Frigeri Women Artists: Art Essentials
(Thames and Hudson, 2019)
Joanna
Frueh Clairvoyance (for those in the desert) Performance Pieces, 1979-2004
(Durham and London: duke University Press, 2008)
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Joanna Frueh Clairvoyance (for those in the desert) Performance Pieces, 1979-2004 Duke University Press, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-8223-4040-9
This new book by Joanna Frueh republishes her performance scripts, spanning twenty-five years. An extensive introduction is included by JillO'Bryan exploring the major concerns in her writing and in her performances as well as her intellectual contribution to feminism. The book is illustrated by images of Joanna Frueh in performance but also by their joint photography project: Joanna in the Desert (2006).
Joanna
Frueh Erotic Faculties
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996)
Joanna
Frueh Monster Beauty: Building the Body of Love
(Berkeley:University of California Press, 2001)
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Joanna Frueh Monster Beauty: Building the Body of Love
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001 ISBN 0 520 22114 1
This anthology brings together performance lectures and writing largely written/published/performed since 1998. Divided into 3 sections, 'Erotic Weight', 'Pleasure and Pedagogy', 'Icons of Pleasure', Frueh discusses representations of eroticism in literature and art, bodybuilding, multiple ideals of beauty and bodily pleasure in a wide range of relationships and human encounters.
Judith
Fryer Davidov Women's Camera Work : Self/Body/Other in American Visual Culture
(Duke University Press, 1998)
Coco
Fusco English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas
(New York, 1995)
Coco
Fusco et al The Latina Artist: The Response of the Creative Mind to Gender, Race, Class and Identity
(New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Univ Press, 1998)
Peggy
Gale and Lisa Steele Video Re/View
(Canada Toronto: Art Metropole & VTape, 1996)
Elizabeth Jessie
Garber Feminist polyphony : a conceptual understanding of feminist art criticism in the 1980s
(Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1989)
Rachel
Garfield Experimental Filmmaking and Punk : Feminist Audio Visual Culture in the 1970s and 1980s
(London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021)
Cheri
Gaulke and Laurel Klick eds
Feminist Art Workers: A History
(LA: Otis College of Art and Design, 2012)
Delia
Gaze ed
Dictionary of Women Artists 2 Vols.
(London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997)
GEDOK Gegenlicht - 60 Jahre Gedok
(Berlin,GEDOK, 1986)
Rae
George Women Artists Since 1900: Has their role changed?
(Glasgow: Boom books, 2022)
Masha
Gessen Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot
(Riverhead:Granta , 2014)
Helga
Geyer-Ryan Fables of desire : studies in the ethics of art and gender
(Cambridge : Polity, 1994)
Jools
Gilson, Nicola Moffat eds
Textiles, Community and Controversy : The Knitting Map
(Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019)
Wong
Gina See-Yuen Global feminisms in feminist art and their new challenges
(Hong Kong University, PhD, 2007)
Alison
Gingeras ed
Great Women Painters
(Phaidon, 2022)
Ferren
Gipson Women's Work: From Feminine Arts to Feminist Art
(London: Frances Lincoln, 2022)
Guerrilla
Girls The Guerrilla Girls' Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art
(UK,Harmondsworth,Penguin, 1988)
Guerrilla
Girls The Banana Report: The Guerrilla Girls Review the Whitney
(exhibition catalogue, The Clocktower, New York, 1987)
Andrea
Giunta The Political Body: Stories on Art, Feminism, and Emancipation in Latin America
(Oakland : University of California Press, 2023)
Andrea
Giunta Avant-Garde, Internationalism,
and Politics: Argentine Art in the Sixties
(Durham and London: Duke
University Press, 2007)
Andrea
Giunta Feminismo y arte latinoamericano: Historias de artistas que emanciparon el cuerpo
(Siglio XX: Arte y pensamiento, 2018)
Jorunn Svensen
Gjerden, Kari Jegerstedt, Željka Švrljuga eds
Exploring the Black Venus figure in aesthetic practices
(Leiden ; Boston : Koninklijke Brill , 2019)
Gerhard
Glüher ed
Ulrike Rosenbach : Wege zur Medienkunst 1969 bis 2004
(Köln : Wienand, 2005)
Nan
Goldin Nan Goldin : Ten Years After
(Scalo Publishers, 2005)
Catherine
Gonnard and Elizabeth Lebovici Femmes Artistes, Artistes Femme: La Creation en France, 1900-2000
(Paris, Edition Hazan, 2008)
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Catherine Gonnard and Elisabeth Lebovici
Femmes Artistes, Artistes Femme: La Creation en France, 1900-2000
Paris, Edition Hazan, 2007 (Text in French) ISBN: 978-2-7541-0206-3
This is one of the most important reference books to be published on the subject of women artists from France. Although the book concentrates on Paris, it is the first major attempt to map and link in one book a trajectory of women artists' work stretching from the Union of Femmes Artistes (founded in 1881); the group, Femmes Artistes Moderne (1931-1938); through the work of women as gallerists in Paris; into the work of contemporary feminist artists from Annette Messager and Tania Mouraud to Dominique Gonzalez-Forster and Elisabeth Ballet. The sources for this research include: analyses of state collections; published art criticism; diaries, monographs and theses as well as photographic records. The authors also conducted new interviews with artists and gallerists from different generations for this book.The authors negotiate the complex territory d'un art feminin and the shifting definitions of modern feminism in their efforts to explore the episodic treatment of women artists in French culture as frequently celebrated and often marginalised.
Karen
Gonzalez Rice Long Suffering: American Endurance Art as Prophetic Witness
(University of Michigan Press, 2016)
More This book contains a detailed analysis of Linda Montano's work.
Semíramis
González, Marta Pérez Ibáñez y Carolina Rodovalho eds
Desigualdad de género en el sistema del arte en España
(Menades Editorial, 2020)
Emily Elizabeth
Goodman Food, Feminism, and Women’s Art in 1970s Southern California
(Routledge, 2022)
Helen
Gorrill Women Can’t Paint: Gender, the Glass Ceiling and Values in Contemporary Art
(Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020)
Uta
Grab Muller and Monika Katz Zwischen Anpassung und Widerspruch Beitrage zur Frauenforschung am Osteuropa
(Berlin: Harrassowitz Verlag/ Institut der Frein Universitat, 1993)
Grace
Grace Grace GraceGraceGrace explore gen-age* (*gender and ageing)
(London: Live Arts Development Agency, 2019)
Mayo
Graham Some Canadian Women Artists
(Canada: National Gallery of Canada, 1975)
Catherine
Grant A Time of One's Own: Histories of Feminism in Contemporary Art
(Duke University Press, 2022)
Catherine
Grant and Kate Random Love eds.
Fandom as Methodology: A Sourcebook for Artists and Writers
(Goldsmiths Press, 2019)
Catherine
Grant and Lori Waxman eds
Girls! Girls! Girls! in Contemporary Art
(Intellect, Bristol , 2011)
Isabelle
Graw Die Bessare Halfte: Kunstlerinnen des 20 und 21 Jahrhunderts
(Cologne: du Mont Verlag, 2003)
Germaine
Greer The Obstacle Race
(London: IB Tauris, 2001)
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Germaine Greer The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and their Work London: IB Tauris, 2001 reprint, 1979 ISBN 1 86064 677 8
The republication of this feminist classic is worth noting. While the scholarship in the intervening years has often challenged or expanded its theses on the "obstacles" facing women artists as more in-depth studies of some women discussed from the 10th-early 20th centuries have been undertaken, it nevertheless remains an informative, thought-provoking introduction to the question of women artists' lives and the challenges they faced.
Sylvia
Grevel ; Mieke Korenhof eds
Theologische Ikonographien : Kunst und Religion im Dialog
(Berlin ; Münster : Lit , 2007)
Uta
Grosenick ed
Women Artists in the 20th and 21st Centuries
(Germany and UK: Taschen Books. English and German editions, 2001)
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Uta Grosenick (ed) Women Artists in the 20th and 21st Century
(separate German and English editions) Koln & London: Taschen, 2001 3-8228-5854-4
93 women artists are featured in this book, each with a short profile, a photograph and four or five images of their work. The hidden selection criteria mirrors the other two anthologies discussed (Art and Feminism and Feminism-Art-Theory) in so far as 46 live or work in America, 10 in the UK, 14 in Germany, 17 in other European centres and a further 6 in total from South America, Australia and Japan. As a German book, the inclusion of more German women from both past and present should I hope underline the specific location and histories offered by all three anthologies. The book aims to negotiate the stereotypes of "feminist" and "feminine" and point to a wide-ranging cross-section of different art practices from women artists but does not identify the nature of the feminism in particular artists' projects. The majority of artists chosen have worked in the last twenty years of the twentieth century, with the notable exceptions of some "great women artists": Sonia Delaunay, Natalia Goncharova, Hannah Hoch, Barbara Hepworth, Georgia O'Keefe, Germaine Richier, Frida Kahlo and Lee Krasner. The selection appears premised on a museum and market-led assessment of the value of particular women artists currently. The relationship of their practice to any feminist legacy or art movement is played down. The introduction acknowledges dis-crimination through the last century but paints an uncritical picture of a triumphant chronological march towards increasing numbers of women artists and recognition of their strength and individualism in the twenty-first century.
Nancy
Grove Magical Mixtures - Marisol Portrait Sculpture
(, 1991)
Eva
Grubinger Group.Sex
(Sternberg Press, 1998)
More Texts by Eri Kawade/James Roberts, Ann Powers, Klaus Theweleit
Marina
Grzinic and Adele Eisenstein The Spectralization of Technology: From Elsewhere to Cyberfeminism and Back : Institutional Modes of the Cyberworld
(Slovenia: Maribor: MKC, YouthCultural Center: Festival of Computer Arts, 1999)
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Marina Grzinic (ed) with Adele Eisenstein
The Spectralization of Technology: From Elsewhere to Cyberfeminism and Back : Institutional Modes of the Cyberworld. (Slovenia, Maribor: MKC, Youth Cultural Center/ Festival of Computer Arts, 1999) ISBN 961-6154-02-8
This new anthology in English continues the ongoing discussion of cyberfeminism from East/West perspectives questioning perceptions in this equation. Essays by Cornelia Sollfrank; Helene von Oldenburg; Marina Grzinic;Claudia Reiche; Eva Ursprung;Kathy Rae Huffman & Margarete Jahrmann.
Marina
Grzinic and Tanja Ostojic eds
Integration Impossible? The Politics of Migration in the Artwork of Tanja Ostojic
(Germany: Argobooks, 2009 Exhibition Innsbruck: Kunstpavillion Tiroler Kunstlerschaft, 2009)
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Marina Grzinic and Tanja Ostojic (eds) Integration Impossible? The Politics of Migration in the Artwork of Tanja Ostojic Germany: Argobooks, 2009 Exhibition Innsbruck: Kunstpavillion Tiroler Kunstlerschaft ISBN: 978-3981-255263
This anthology brings together documentation by the artist with a range of critical essays about her projects since 2000 on immigration, border controls, acquiring visas to travel into Europe, people sans papiers,questions about language as a model for integration and discrimination against Roma people, as well as her remake of Courbet's L'Origine du Monde as a statement about the "Fortress Europe" in 2004. Ostojic's major project Looking for a Husband with an EU Passport (2000-2005) is also documented and discussed, in which she as a citizen of the former Republic of Yugoslovia, living in Belgrade, advertised for an EU husband, married and then divorced a German citizen to obtain papers to live and work in Germany. Ostojic's challenging work on these subjects has produced a book which challenges us to reconsider how we think about "subjects" and "citizenship" in today's globalised economy. Essays by Suzana Milevska, Pamela Allara, Rune Gade, Sefik Tatlic, Manuela Bojadzijev and Judith Surkis.
Luise
Guest Half the Sky: Conversations with women artists in China
(Australia: Piper Press, 2016)
Greg
Gurley ed
Art and Gender: An Intersexual Reader
(USA: Cognella Inc., 2017)
h.arta eds
FEMINISME. Recapituland concepte si afirmand noi pozitii/ FEMINISMS. Reviewing concepts and affirming new positions
(Timisoara: h.arta, 2010)
More Book available:
FEMINISME. Website link currently down (May 2020).
Nguyen
Haiyen (intro) Vietnamese Women Artists
(Cultur-Information Publishing House, 2004)
Sophie
Halart, Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra Sabotage Art: Politics and Iconoclasm in Contemporary Latin America
(IB Tauris, 2016)
Robert L.
Hall Gathered Visions: Selected Works by African American Women Artists
(Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992)
Harmony
Hammond Lesbian Art in America: A Contemporary History
(New York: Rizzoli International Publications Inc, 2000)
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Harmony Hammond Lesbian Art in America:A Contemporary History
New York: Rizzoli International Publications Inc, 2000
ISBN 0-8478-2248-6
Advertised as a 'history of which girls made and showed what, when and where', this volume promises to be the most comprehensive documentation of lesbian artists in America. The introduction makes it clear that the territory mapped contains many problematic definitions post-Stonewall of the terms, lesbian, lesbian artist, feminist lesbian artist. Taking Martha Gever's definition as a guide each definition is situated in relation to the 'complex, often treacherous, system of cultural identites, representations and institutions, and a history of sexual and social regulation.' Three hundred artists and thirty years of this story are included in this original and in-depth research developed alongside Harmony Hammond's own activism in this period with many feminist and lesbian artists in America as an organiser and artist.
Harmony
Hammond Wrappings : essays on feminism, art, and the martial arts
(New York, N.Y. : TSL Press, 1984)
JoAnn
Hanley and Ann-Sargent Wooster The First Generation: Women and Video,1970-1975
(New York:Independent Curators Incorporated, 1993)
Heather
Hanna Women Framing Hair: Serial Strategies in Contemporary Art
(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015)
James Martin
Harding Cutting performances: collage events, feminist artists, and the American avant-garde
(Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2010)
Geraldine
Harris Staging femininities: performance and performativity
(Manchester University Press, 1999)
Natalie
Harris Bluestone Double vision : perspectives on gender and the visual arts
(Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, 1995)
Deborah
Hart and Elspeth Pitt Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now, (November 2020–January 2022)
(National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2020)
Lynda
Hart and Peggy Phelan eds
Acting out : feminist performances
(Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1993)
Salima
Hashmi Unveiling the Visible: Lives and Works of Women Artists of Pakistan
(Islamabad: ActionAid, Pakistan, 2002)
Janice E.
Hayes Bibliography on Canadian feminist art
(Montreal : Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, McGill University, 1986)
Eleanor
Heartney, Helaine Posner, Nancy Princenthal, Sue Scott The Reckoning: Women Artists of the New Millennium
(Prestel, 2013)
Elaine
Hedges and Ingrid Wendt In Her Own Image: Women Working in the Arts
(New York:Feminist Press, 1980)
Laura
Hein and Rebecca Jennison eds
Imagination without Borders: Feminist Artist Tomiyama Taeko and Social Responsibility
(Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2010)
PL
Henderson, Cheryl Robson ed
Unravelling Women's Art: Creators, Rebels and Innovators in Textile Arts
(Supernova Books, 2021)
Robert
Henkes The Art of Black American Women: Works of 24 Artists of the Twentieth Century
(Jefferson:McFarland & Co, 1993)
Minna
Henriksson, Erik Krikortz, Airi Triisberg eds
Art Workers – Material Conditions and Labour Struggles in Contemporary Art Practice
(
self-published, 2015)
Kari
Herbert We are Artists: Women who made their Mark on the World
(Thames and Hudson, 2019)
Vanja
Hermele Konsten – så funkar det (inte) / Art –
this is how it works (not) (PDF, Swedish text)
(Sweden: KRO/KIF, 2017)
Jillian
Hernandez Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment
(Duke University Press, 2020)
Lynn
Hershman Leeson Clicking In: Hot Links to a Digital Culture
(Seattle,Bay Press, 1996)
Lynn
Hershman Leeson and Peter Weibel ed
Lynn Hershman Leeson: Civic Radar
(Hatje Cantz / ZKM, 2016)
Katy
Hessel The Story of Art Without Men
(Hutchinson Heinemann, 2022)
Cressida J.
Heyes Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge
(Duke University Press, 2020)
Jennifer
Higgie The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World
(W & N, 2023)
Jennifer
Higgie ed
The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience: 500 Years of Women's Self-Portraits
(W & N, 2022)
Susan
Hiller Thinking About Art: Conversations with Susan Hiller
(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996)
More Review reproduced from Volume 1, n.paradoxa, Jan 1998. Katy Deepwell 'Short Reviews of New Publications' - This book contains documentation and interviews about Susan Hiller's work as a multi-media artist from 1973 to the present. The book has been produced through a collaboration between Susan Hiller and Barbara Einzig and foregrounds the idea of art as epistemology : a lens through which we can view the grounds of culture and knowledge formations. Hiller's interests and her work as an anthropologist are discussed ; alongside her interest in automatism, shamanism : language, sex and death against the legacy of conceptualism, a critique of representation and specifically scientific forms of empiricism.
1. Inside all Activities: The Artist as Anthropologist ; 2.Within and Against : Women Being Artists; 3.Fragments of A Forgotten Language:Automatism,Dream,Collective Reveries; 4. Working Through Culture: Convetions of Seeing; 5.Objects as Events Extended Over Time:Nature as Representation 6.Art and Knowledge: A Critique of Empiricism.
Susan
Hiller (Alexandra Kokoli, editor) The Provisional Texture of Reality
Selected Talks and Texts, 1977–2007
(JRP Ringier, 2008)
Natasha
Hoare Sexual Warfare: Alexis Hunter
(MIT press, 2019)
Janell
Hobson When God lost her tongue : historical consciousness and the black feminist imagination
(Routledge, 2021)
Beata
Hock Nemtan es pablikart: Lehetseges ertelmezesi szempontok az utobbi masfel evtized ket muveszeti iranyzatahoz [Women's Art and Public Art: Interpretive Aspects for Art Practices Emerging in the Hungarian Scene in the Past 15 Years]
(Budapest: Praesens, 2005)
Beata
Hock Gendered artistic positions and social voices : politics, cinema, and the visual arts in state-socialist and post-socialist Hungary
(Stuttgart: Steiner, 2013)
Susie
Hodge The Short Story of Women Artists: A Pocket Guide to Key Breakthroughs, Movements, Works and Themes
(Laurence King, 2020)
Home (Laura Godfrey-Isaacs) Home presents Home 2
(UK: Jordan UK and Home (Laura Godfrey-Isaacs), 2001)
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Home presents Home 2
A DVD published by Jordan UK and Home. A DVD. Artists' performances in the second exhibition/presentation at home, a space in South London set up and run by the artist Laura Godfrey-Isaacs. This DVD features performances, scripts, images & introductory texts from: Bobby Baker, Helena Bryant, Michelle Griffiths, Anna O (Janet Hand & Tessa Speak), Hayley Newman, Clare Roberts, Joshua Sofaer, Gary Stevens, John Seth & Anne Tallentire, Julian Woropay.
Klaus
Honnef ed
Melanie Manchot: Love is a Stranger: Photographs 1998-2001
(Munich, London, New York: Prestel, 2001)
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Klaus Honnef (ed) Melanie Manchot: Love is a Stranger: Photographs 1998-2001
Munich, London, New York: Prestel, 2001
3-7913-2532-9
Lavishly and generously illustrated in colour, this book documents several major series by the artist and includes short statements by her on the work. These include Liminal Portraits, frank and beautiful photos of the artist's mother positioned naked against the landscape; For a Moment Between Strangers; The LA Pictures; Gestures of Demarcation; The Fountainbleau Series - a series of double portraits of women based on a painting and several billboard projects. Essays by Janet Hand, Klaus Honnef and Stuart Horodner.
Bell
Hooks Art on My Mind:Visual Politics
(New York: New Press, 1996)
Jeanette
Hoorn Strange Women : Essays in Art and Gender
(Carlton,Victoria: Melbourne University Press, 1994)
Gill
Hopper Art, Education and Gender: The Shaping of Female Ambition
(Palgrave MacMillan, 2015)
Gabriele
Horn, Ruth Ronen eds
Sigalit Landau
(Berlin: Kunst-Werke Berlin and Hatje Cantz, 2007)
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Gabriele Horn, Ruth Ronen (eds) Sigalit Landau Kunst-Werke Berlin and Hatje Cantz, 2007 Texts in German and English ISBN: 978-3-7757-2104-2
Landau, who is based in Jerusalem, works across the media of sculpture, performance, video producing large scale installations often using sound or video. Her reputation as a powerful artist engaged with the politics of globalisation, especially issues of migration, oppression and the consequent degradation of the environment was secured by the showing of Resident Alien I at documenta X. The new work featured in this exhibition catalogue of The Dining Hall at Kunst-Werke is no less challenging, moving from an assessment of the spaces of communal life to the relationship between flesh, meat, salt and matter as metaphors for how we live today. Oral histories are retold in this space and they include voices of elderly women speaking about their stories, in contrast to the conflicts produced through Zionism, especially those related to food, nourishment and digestion and identity as described by Tali Tamir in the main essay on 'Collective Digestion and Table Manners'. Essays by other contributors address other works in her oeuvre. The book also contains documentation of works between 1994-2005 produced largely in Israel or Germany. Her later works are an examination of the politics and physical properties of the Dead Sea.
Andrew D.
Hottle The art of the Sister chapel : exemplary women, visionary creators, and feminist collaboration
(Ashgate, 2014)
Francesca
Hughes ed
The Architect: Reconstructing Her Practice
(Boston: MIT Press, 1996)
More Review first published in n.paradoxa online (May 1997) by Katy Deepwell -- This book addresses the question of gender in architectural practice. Touching on familiar questions for women practitioners : Do women design differently from men? Is there a feminine architecture? What does it look like? and at the same time trying to move beyond these into more complex questions of the problem of 'Woman' already-inscribed in language in its contradictory even opposition placement against the work of real women architects. The aim is to produce a collective autobiography of practice : one which multiplies that sense of possibility in gender beyond simple binary oppositions of male/female. As one reviewer put it, the book is collected 'with cunning and tact', essays are linked in a tangential but flowing manner.
Contents and Authors:
Beatriz Colomina discusses Eileen Gray's house E.1027 at Cap Martin and the contradictory place of Le Corbusier's gift mural within it. Martine De Maesener's essay plays on the conflicts in language and spatial design embodied in the notion of form and function : a play between up and side, 'Op-Zij' (in Dutch) inside/outside in 'Rear Window'. Francoise-Helene Jourda describes her architectural practice (and collaborations) in terms of principles specifically exploiting contradictory principles. Elizabeth Diller moves from an analysis of time-motion efficency in 1950s Taylorism to a clever pun on the pyschology of housewives dis-/mal-content in pressing the perfect shirt. Dagmar Richter, inspired by Cixous' challenge to put into words the unthinkable/unthought offers reflections on 'A Practice of One's Own' from building the Century City to using 'irony' as a method to redesign Beirut. Nasrine Seraji-Bozorgzad's reflections presented in image/text forms present reflections on territories and models of architectural practice in order to illuminate her own position. Catherine Ingraham takes up Francesca Hughes' suggestion of women operating as both insiders and outsiders in architecture language and its objects: as a site for a lament. Christine Hawley presents aspects of her own practice and offers ideas and salutary warnings about challenging the norms of architecture. Merrill Elam discusses some of her own projects and recollections ; Diana Agrest 'The Return of (the Repressed) Nature in the China Basin project; Magret Hargardottir discusses her design of City Hall, Reyjavick,Iceland and work in Wiesbaden; and Jennifer Bloomer the principles of composition and fascination in still life in her work.
Aída
Hurtado Intersectional chicana feminisms : sitios y lenguas
(Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2020)
Genevieve
Hyacinthe Radical Virtuosity: Ana Mendieta and the Black Atlantic
(MIT press, 2019)
Sarah
Hyde Exhibiting Gender
(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997)
Mako
Idemitsu What a Woman Made
(art media KY, DVD and booklet, 2005)
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Mako Idemitsu What a woman made art media KY, DVD and booklet in Japanese, with English summary
This invaluable DVD contains three of Japanese artist Mako Idemitsu's early feminist video works:What a Woman Made (1973), a film about menstruation and womanhood; Woman's House (1972), her footage of the Womanhouse Project in California and Another Day of a Housewife (1977), a video about the routine of housework. Mako Idemitsu produced artist's pages in Vol.16 of n.paradoxa.
Eligio
Imarisio Donna poi artista : identità e presenza tra Otto e Novecento
(Milano : FrancoAngeli, 1996)
Kornelia
Imesch Inscriptions / transgressions : Kunstgeschichte und Gender Studies
(Peter Lang, 2008)
Joanna
Inglot The Figurative Sculpture of Magadalena Abakanowicz: Bodies, Environments, and Myths
(University of California Press, 2004)
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Joanna Inglot The Figurative Sculpture of Magadalena Abakanowicz: Bodies, Environments, and Myths University of California Press, 2004 ISBN: 0-520-23125-2
While offering a critical perspective on Magdalena Abakanowicz which seeks to position her work in the context of Polish art developments and demythologise her reputation as the loner or outsider from Communist Poland, driven by intuition and imagination, in international circles, this book was nevertheless published without key reproductions or interviews. Permission for this was withheld by the artist in the final stages of its production in spite of her co-operation in the research. The tension in the book between the author's reading and the artist's perspective of herself is interesting here. Abakanowicz's early family life, her development as an artist are outlined as well as the shifts in cultural policy in Poland. Inglot also compares Abakanowicz with Alina Szapocznikow amongst her peers in Poland. However, more significant in the argument is how the author contrasts Abakanowicz's popular reception by many feminists in the US with the artist's own statements, in which she refuses to see equality as an issue (a common position in Eastern Europe where equality was official policy) combined with her refusal to acknowledge her perspective as gendered, while instead stressing its contribution to humanity, universal values and the importance of mystery in art.
Joanna
Inglot WARM: A Feminist Art Collective in Minnesota
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, Weisman Art Museum, 2007)
Luce
Irigaray Luce Irigaray: Key Writings
(London/New York: Continuum, 2004)
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Luce Irigaray Key Writings London/New York: Continuum, 2004 ISBN: 0 8264 6940 X
A new anthology of collected writings on philosophy, linguistics, art, spirituality, religion and politics, advancing her argument about 'a culture of two subjects' beyond the so-called neutered and universal subject but taking account of sexuate difference as a respect for difference in terms of speaking and being. Irigaray also describes this book as a return to her concerns in Speculum and the problem of how to approach the other as other.
Sharon
Irish Suzanne Lacy: spaces between
(University of Minnesota Press, 2010)
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Sharon Irish Suzanne Lacy: Spaces Between University of Minnesota Press, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-8186-6096-4
Offering a strong chronological overview of the different projects which Suzanne Lacy has made since 1972, this book is the first, apart from discussion in exhibition catalogues, to offer an extended insight into Lacy's work in the last forty years. It summarises how Lacy's work has resisted racism, promoted feminism and explored human relationships in her development of new genre public art.
Jo Anna
Isaak Feminism and Contemporary Art: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Laughter
(London: Routledge, 1996)
More Review first published in n.paradoxa online (May 1997) by Katy Deepwell -- Jo Anna Isaak analyses and presents the work of women artists from the U.S., the former Soviet Union; the United Kingdom and Canada in this book, beginning with the work from her 1982 exhibition 'The Revolutionary Power of Women's Laughter' and its 1992 sequel 'Laughter Ten Years After'. Two chapters engage with her work on Freud and feminist readings 'Art History and Its Discontents' and 'Encore'; and on Cixous in 'Mapping the Imaginary'. There are many insights and ideas presented for feminist analysis within this book. What is immediately striking is the move towards an international appraisal of parallels within feminism and the importance of 'heteroglossia'.
Chapters : The Revolutionary Power of Women's Laughter ; Art History and Its (Dis)Contents ; Reflections of Resistance: Women Artists on the Other Side of the Mir; Mothers of Invention ; Mapping the Imaginary ; Encore.
Graciele
Iturbide Eyes to Fly With: Portraits, Self-
Portraits, and other photographs
(USA: University of Texas Press, 2007)
Sanja
Ivekovic Public Cuts
(Slovenia: P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E., 2006)
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Sanja Ivekovic Public Cuts Ljubljana, Slovenia: P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E., 2006
ISBN: 10-961-91737-1-6
This catalogue introduced by Bojana Pejic documents the work of Sanja Ivekovic in public spaces in the last three decades from her renowned performance action Triangle (1979) staged on one of President Tito's visits to Zagreb to LiverPoll (2004 Liverpool Biennial), her street sculptures based on responses to a poll of public opinion and Attention: Women at Work! (2006), a series of altered traffic signs in Ljubljana.
Mary Jane
Jacob Shikego Kubota: Video Sculpture
(University of Washington Press, 1991)
Mary
Jacobus First things : the maternal imaginary in literature, art, and psychoanalysis
(Routledge, 1995)
Annette
Jael Lehmann, Verena Kittel Tacit Knowledge Feminism – California Institute of the Arts 1970-1977
(Leipziz : Spector Books, 2019)
Karina
Jakubowicz An Analysis of Griselda Pollock's Vision and Difference:
Feminism, Femininity and the Histories of Art
(Routledge, Marcat Library, 2018)
Agata
Jakubowska ed
Alina Szapocznikow: Awkward Objects
(Books N°5, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, 2011)
Elisabeth
Jappe Performance,Ritual, Prozess: Handbuch der Aktionskunst in Europe
(Munich: New York,Prestel, 1993)
Titia
Jeanette Top Art and Gender: Creative Achievement in the Visual Arts
(Amsterdam, 1993)
Alana
Jelenik This is Not Art and Other "Not-Art"
(London: IB Tauris, 2013)
Natalie
Jeremijenko and Eugene Thacker Creative Biotechnology: A User's Manual
(Newcastle: Locus +, 2004)
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Natalie Jeremijenko and Eugene Thacker (Biotech Hobbyist)
Creative Biotechnology: A User's Manual Newcastle: Locus +, 2004
ISBN:1 899377 22 0
Divided into two parts, with each contributor framing their own approach to the subject, this is both an instructional manual and an operator warning system for biotech hobbyists. Jeremijenko's discussions are framed by the strange arrest and ongoing prosecution of Steve Kurtz of Critical Art Ensemble by US authorities under the mail and wire fraud act, and not anti-terror laws, and what it means for an artist to experiment with "innocent" bio-technological materials in the US, given the current wave of cultural panic about terrorism. While Thacker documents his own biomolecular practice and experiments with language, Jeremijenko seeks to provide a context for working with biological experiments. Her own work includes experiments with artificial skin grafts, micropropogation, test equipment for Milgram's mice, and genetic horoscopes.
Paul
Jobling Bodies of Experience: Gender & Identity in Women's Photography since 1970
(Vol.2, Nexus: London, Scarlet Press, 1997)
Margarethe
Jochimsen ed
Dokumentation des Symposiums Feministische Erneuerung von Wissenschaft und Kunst : [vom 16. bis 18. Februar 1989 im Rahmen der Ausstellung "Das Verhaltnis der Geschlechter" im Bonner Kunstverein] / Arbeitsgemeinschaft Interdisziplinäre Frauenforschung und -studien]
(Pfaffenweiler : Centaurus-Verl.-Ges. , 1990)
Clare
Johnson Femininity, Time and Feminist Art
(Palgrave, 2013)
Jill
Johnston, Axel Wieder, Fiona McGovern, Megan Francis Sullivan The Disintegration of a Critic
(Sternberg, 2019)
Amelia
Jones The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader (2002, 2003, 2010 editions)
(London: Routledge, 2003)
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Amelia Jones (ed)
The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader London: Routledge, 2003
ISBN: 0-415-26706-4
Divided into seven parts with 62 essays or extracts from articles, this book aims to be another definitive reader for feminist teaching. The introduction and the first section Provocation offer six new essays which examine the current state of feminist scholarship for its biases and the relationship of feminism to visual culture. Amelia Jones insists on the intersecting nature of feminism and visual culture, positioning feminism as central rather than an adjunct or specialist area within visual culture. She also draws a distinction between visual culture and cultural studies based on the former's exclusive concern with visuality. Rosemary Betterton discusses the difficulties of students when faced with artworks from the past, in spite of their considerable skills in reading images from popular culture as part of the shift involved in visual culture when moving from a discipline-based study to interdisciplinary analysis. Jennifer Doyle analyses how homophobia and misogyny continue to structure the art world and our knowledge systems; Lisa Bloom considers how feminism must now attend to how (Western) feminist theories may and may not work in different trans-national locations and consider again their own regional context of operation. Judith Wilson considers the semantics involved in thinking about a black feminist visual theory: positioning the first as a social category; the second a political orientation;the third a mode of perception, a category of cultural phenomena. Interestingly, she positions black women artists as ahead of theoretical research in their practice. Faith Wilding discusses cyberfeminist debates and draws attention not only to the bio-tech industry but the pace of modern industrialised life globally. Meiling Chang concludes by discussing a metaphor for feminism as a pool of colours to which ever more pigments are being added.
The book then divides into parts titled: Representation; Difference; Disciplines/Strategies; Mass Culture/Media Interventions; Body; and Technology. In each section eight to ten essays, primarily from the last three decades are included. Amelia Jones based her selection of Anglophone texts (largely US/UK-based) on tracing a history of theory, selecting canonical articles which each represent a shift in methodology, while maintaining overall a heterodoxy of debates and ideas to reveal the intersection between feminist theory and visual culture.
Amelia
Jones Body Art - Performing the Subject
(University of Minnesota, 1998)
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Amelia Jones Body Art: Performing the Subject (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998) ISBN 0 8166 2773 8
This is a book which, I feel, will have a far-reaching effect upon the development of the theoretical discourses around performance, representations of the body, and body art in particular. Amelia Jones develops models for thinking through the representation of the artist's body/self in artworks and the associated problematics of the mediation of subjectivity between artist and audience. Using a phenomenological basis for developing understanding of body art as intersubjective (rather than subject/object), Jones traces body art's disruption of the normative values of the modernist art world. The significance of the particularity of the body used is demonstrated through close readings of certain works: any artist's body/self used in an artwork becomes explicitly non-universal, non-transcendent. In this lies body art's potential for radical (including feminist) practices. Works by Vito Acconci and Hannah Wilke are analyzed in depth against this background, enriched by readings across a host of works by other artists, demonstrating the delicate but insistent play of intersubjectivity.
This is not a book 'about' body art, then (and still less is it one 'about' particular artists), so much as one which aims to develop the critical vocabulary and shape the discourses of body art, opening spaces for gender-aware and anti-racist practices. This it does productively and provocatively. Its language is rich and challenging (if with a decided American accent - many nouns extended into adjectives and verbs). Its main fault for the researcher-reader is its lack of separate bibliography: one has to trace back through the notes, which is frustrating, as they take up over a quarter of its pages.
My main problem with the book's argument is tangential to its aim: it lies with one of Jones's definitions of "body art", which I feel is an over-protective handling of a methodological problem. Early on, Jones stresses that body art is dependent upon photographic documentation (p.13), later adding that it [depends] on documentation to attain symbolic status within the realm of culture (p.33). While photographic documentation is crucial for the retrospective researcher, it is important to distinguish between body art intended to be mediated in photographic format (like some of Wilke's work under discussion), and that which is documented through photographs - in which case the photographic evidence remains highly contingent and partial, and the structures of discourse around them differ. A few photographs taken during (say) a 12-hour non-stop body art work can only be understood as a trace record, rather than privileged access to the artist/subject; the most reductive critic would at this point mourn the loss of such access, deeming it only possible through attending/participating in the performance itself. The significance of this distinction is not clear in the book (indeed, the import of time in the processes of body art is notably absent from the discussion). This point (and my terminology) cut across Amelia Jones's intentions of elucidating the intersubjective nature of body art, but it is crucial in the thorny debate about the representation of body art and the possibility not only for adequate documentation but also for a radical (feminist) retrospective critical analysis. Jones positions the reading by Alan Kaprow of Hans Namuth's photographs of Jackson Pollock as crucial to the development of Happenings; but this could only happen with the imaginative leap from reading those photographs as indexical of the (unmediated) subject 'behind' the paintings, to reading them as indexical of a possible repertoire of gestures of mediation. Only then can the subjectivity of the artist be constructed as particular and contingent. What is indicated here is that the strategic reading of the documentary photograph is at stake. This could, I think, have been explored in the book; however, this removes little from Jones's overall, and considerable, achievement of shifting the models of thinking about body art away from the prevalent idealist notions of unmediated access to the artist/subject and into a more radical realm which can only be of benefit to developing feminist critical thought.
Amelia
Jones Self/Image: Technology, Representation and the Contemporary Subject
(London: Routledge, 2006)
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Amelia Jones Self/Image: Technology, Representation and the Contemporary Subject London: Routledge, 2006 ISBN: 978-0-415-34522-4
The contention of this book is that both ideas of a contemporary self and self-image have been reconfigured since the 1970s by the impact of new technologies in the consumer spectacle of late global capitalism. Jones reviews a wide range of film, performance, video and multi-media art projects drawing together her own experiences of the work and a larger conceptual framework about the shifting forms of "self" in post-post-modernist and philosophical terms. An interval in the book introduces the work of Asco, a Los-Angeles based 1970s activist art collective, while Pipilotti Rist, Cindy Sherman and Stellarc provide major case studies within the chapters to emphasise that the body, albeit reconfigured, is not obsolete.
Amelia
Jones In Between Subjects: A Critical Genealogy of Queer Performance
(Routledge, 2021)
Amelia
Jones Seeing Differently: A History and Theory of Identification and the Visual Arts
(Routledge, 2012)
Chino
Kaori and Takaai Kumakura eds
Onna? Nippon? Bi? (Women? Japan? Beauty?)
(Fujisawa: Keio University Press, 1999)
Michiko
Kasahara Gender Photography Theory 1991–2017 (English title of Japanese book)
(Kawasaki: Satoyamasha, 2018)
Claudine Mandel
Katz Estéticas de la disidencia. Mujeres artistas en Costa Rica (1930-2000)/ Aesthetics of dissidence. Women artists in Costa Rica (1930-2000)
(Editorial UNED, Costa Rica, 2022)
Susan
Kavaler-Adler The Compulsion to Create: A Psychoanalytic Study of Women Artists
(London: Routledge, 1993)
Monika
Keiser Neubesetzungen des Kunst-Raumes: Feministische Kunstausstellungen und ihre Raume, 1972-1987
(Bielefeld: Transcript-Verlag, 2013)
Lindsay
Kelley Bioart Kitchen: Art, Feminism and Technoscience
(IB Tauris, 2016)
Mary
Kelly Post-Partum Document
(London: Routledge, 1983)
Mary
Kelly Imaging Desire: Mary Kelly:Selected Writings
(MIT Press, 1997)
More Review reproduced from Volume 1, n.paradoxa, Jan 1998. Katy Deepwell 'Short Reviews of New Publications' - Divided into 5 sections, this volume reprints many of Kelly's published writings in a new context allowing a greater insight into her cultural, critical and artistic projects over the last two decades. Her reflections on the direction of feminist art practice since the 1970s; on the politics of modernism; on the representation of femininity in artistic practice ; and on the female/feminist subject in history continue to inspire and provoke feminist debate in the UK and USA.
The 5 sections of the book are :- I.Feminist Interventions; II Unspeakable Subjects; III Postmodern Oppositions ; IV Invisible Bodies; V Gender Hybrids.
Christine
Kelly and Andrew Sisson The social construction of feminist art : an exploratory study
(Caulfield East, Vic : Caulfield Institute of Technology, 1979)
Brian P.
Kennedy and Britta Konau, Margo W. Smith Dreaming Their Way: Australian Aboriginal Women Painters
(Washington DC: Museum of Women in the Arts, 2006)
Jen
Kennedy, Trista E. Mallory and Angelique Szymanek eds
Transnational perspectives on feminism and art, 1960-1985
(Routledge, 2021)
Janice
Kerbel 15 Lombard St
(London: Bookworks, 2001)
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Janice Kerbel
15 Lombard St London: Bookworks, 2001 ISBN 1 870699 45 9
Two fantasies sustain this artist's project, the fantasy of absolute control by a bank in maintaining the security of its money and the fantasy of robbing the bank in a classic well-calculated heist. The artist dissects both genres with the precision of the all-seeing, all-knowing detective whose research succeeds in plotting every action, every role and every split second of timing. In clipped and factual report language the actions, diversions and escape plans of the thieves and the security measures of the bank are laid bare. The language, like a court report, is supported by the surveillance-type photos documenting the bank, the guards, the "scene of crime". Is this a capricious reconstruction of what might be, a systems analysis or a master plan? Is the artist a social researcher or an imaginative script-writer for a great escape to the Costa del Sol, home to many famous UK armed robbers?Ah, the seduction of a single "job" (or work of art) which will bring total fame and fortune!
Helen
Khal The Women Artist in Lebanon (prepared under grant in 1975-76 for the Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World, Beirut University College, Beirut, Lebanon).
(The Institute, Beirut, 1987)
Hong-hee
Kim Women and Art, Contemporary Art Discourse and the Field I
(Korea: Noonbit, 2003)
Hong-hee
Kim Korean Art World and Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Discourse and the Field II
(Korea: Noonbit, 2003)
Lucy
Kimbell Audit
(London: Bookworks, 2002)
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Lucy Kimbell Audit London: Bookworks, 2002. ISBN 1-870699-60-2
This witty and intriguing artist's project is based on an audit of the artist's value to friends, family and acquaintances. Sections from the 56 responses to her original questionnaire are Review reproduced, alongside her own analysis of the results. These and her interactions with the respondents are presented in a neat and very polished graphic form. Her own approach is further "audited" by comments from and interviews with official auditors and social analysts. While value is rated primarily in monetary terms, she does attempt to consider her community and environmental worth in the opinions of others. Is this a parable of modern life?
Sandy
Kirby Sightlines: Women's Art and Feminist Perspectives in Australia
(Australia,Craftsman House: East Rowville, 1992)
Anna
Kirker New Zealand Women Artists: A Survey of 150 Years
(Tortola,BVI: Craftsmans House, 1986)
Wendy
Kirkup Echo
(London: Locus +, 2001)
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Wendy Kirkup Echo catalogue and CD-Rom Newcastle: Locus +, 2001
9-781899-377121
Initally presented as a live satellite broadcast at the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow and the Center for Life, Newcastle upon Tyne, this project, re-presented as a CD-Rom, uses the technology of ultra-sound to map the artist's body and reconsider its internal spaces as a revised atlas of the body. While the piece was being made, the artist became pregnant and her position under ultrasound oscillated between "patient" and "artist", linking as she suggests the realms of semiotic, corporeal and libidinal layers within this work. The catalogue includes essays by the artist, Tom Shakespeare, Eric Laurier and Renee Baert.
Megumi
Kitahara Depictions of the Asian Female Body: Visual Representation and War Memory (English title of Japanese book)
(Tokyo: Seikyusha, 2013)
Katrin
Kivimaa ed
Working with Feminism: Curating and Exhibitions in Eastern Europe
(Talin: ACTA Universitatis Tallinnensis, 2013)
Jennie
Klein, Natalie Loveless eds
Responding to site : the performance work of Marilyn Arsem
(Bristol: Intellect Books, 2020)
Reiner E.
Klemke and Sabine Gieschler eds
Frau-Raum-Zeit : Karl-Hofer-Symposium, 4, 1982, West Berlin
(Berlin: Colloquium-Verlag, 1983)
Na'ama
Klorman-Eraqi The visual is political : feminist photography and countercultural activity in 1970s Britain
(New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2019)
Matthew
Knagas Camille Patha: Geography of Desire
(Oregon: Halie Ford Museum of Art, Williamette University, 2007)
Alexandra M.
Kokoli ed
Feminism Reframed: Reflections on art and Difference
(Cambridge Scholars, Publishing, 2008)
Alexandra
Kokoli The Feminist Uncanny in Theory and Art Practice
(Bloomsbury, 2016)
Silvia
Kolbowski inadequate...Like...Power
(Cologne: Walter Konig, 2004)
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Silvia Kolbowski inadequate...Like...Power exhibition catalogue Vienna:
Secession, 17 Sept.-11 Nov. 2004: Koln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, 2004 ISBN: 3-88375-894-9
Three projects, as installations with video, form the basis of this artist's exhibition. The first, an inadequate history of conceptual art, offers a counter history to the re-evaluation of conceptual art in the 1990s and combines 22 recordings of artists discussing their experience of an exhibition or performance of conceptual art between 1965-1975. The soundtracks are accompanied by videos of the hands of the anonymous interviewees as they speak. The second work, Like Looking Away focuses on the experience of shopping as understood through 10 women aged 18-34. Their words are retold by one actress, imitating the timbre and accent of their different voices. Photos of the women themselves looking away were also shown.The final piece, Proximity to Power, juxtaposes interviews with men who support and work for "powerful" men - politicians, investors, or power brokers - as they analyse their relation to power with images based on the representation of power as understood from 40 boys aged 7-11. The catalogue contains analytical essays about these works by Rosalyn Deutsche, Mignon Nixon and Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen, and an interview between the artist and Hal Foster.
Carolyn
Korsmeyer Gender and Aesthetics: An Introduction
(Routledge, 2004)
Zoe
Kosmidou The Power of Visual Logos: Greek Women Artists
(Athens: ICAN, 2003)
Susan
Kozel Closer: Performance, Technologies,Phenomenology
(Boston: MIT, Leonardo series, 2007)
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Susan Kozel Closer: Performance, Technologies, Phenomenology
MIT: Leonardo series, 2007 ISBN: 978-0-262-11310-6
Part academic treatise, part documentation of a ten years of practice, Kozel analyses Merleau-Ponty's theory of phenomenology in relationship to approaches and methods she has developed in dance, performance and to the applications both real and virtual of wearable technologies in performances. The book represents an interesting approach because it mirrors the processes currently conducted by a considerable number of PhD students in the UK as practice-based research but this does not seem to have been the impetus behind the book, rather the establishment of a new form of interdisciplinary discourse.
Elke
Krasny, Sophie Lingg, Lena Fritsch, Birgit Bosold und Vera Hofmann Radicalizing Care. Feminist and Queer Activism in Curating
(Sternberg Press, 2022)
Chris
Kraus Video Green: Los Angeles Art and The Triumph of Nothingness
(Mass: Cambridge, MIT/Semiotext(e) Active Agents Series, 2004)
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Chris Kraus Video Green: Los Angeles Art and The Triumph of Nothingness
Mass.: Cambridge, MIT/Semiotext(e) Active Agents Series, 2004 ISBN: 1 584 35022 9
The many short chapters of this book incorporate diary-writing, reflection on art, artists, the local architecture of LA and what it means to write and teach. Originally written as a column called 'Torpor' in Artext and then C Magazine International, the material is focused on LA in the late 1990s. Loaning money, S/M relationships, using phone sex and personal ads in a variety of sexual encounters and exchanges, and following other people's desparate stories of poverty, homelessness and inadequate access to health-care all emerge as part of the narrative in the reflections about the emptiness and potential of being creative in LA.
Rosalind
Krauss The Optical Unconscious
(Boston: MIT Press, 1992)
More This review was first published by Katy Deepwell in Women's Art Magazine July/August 1993 No.53 --- This is a difficult, provocative and challenging book. Its central themes emerge slowly as one familiarises oneself with the subtle crosscutting of voices, diary quotations, anecdotes, theoretical explorations and close readings which it offers. This "polyvalence" is central to Krauss's project, opening up the possibilities for re-reading modernism "from the inside"
Krauss re-examines what is at stake in the claims and counterclaims concerning some of modernism's heroes and bête noires, its championing critics and dissenting figures. Krauss reads against the grain of Greenbergian modernism, juxtaposing readings of John Ruskin on nature to Mondrian's grid,; of Duchamp on and against Fry; Ernst in relation to Freud; Dali against Bataille and Caillois; Helene Parmelin on Picasso; Twombly, Warhol and Hesse on Pollock. Remapping the structuralist graph which she has previously used so effectively in "Sculpture in the Expanded Field" (reprinted in Hal Foster Postmodern Culture,1985), to delineate the modernist vision of figure against ground, across Lacan's L-schema of a psychoanalytic theory of the subject, with its imaginary relations in the real and the unconscious repression of the Other, Krauss begins to define modernism's optical unconscious. The term borrowed and redeployed from Walter Benjamin's Small History of Photography (1931) refers to that which is externalised within the visual field, not simply in terms of modernism's scientific-technological games with the visual, but what it can reveal of the unconscious conflicts of makers and readers. Sexuality, specifically the carnality of vision, emerges centre-stage disavowing modernism's claims for the visual as autonomous, disinterested and transcendent.
Krauss' writing problematises the relationships between theory and an object; the procedures of art-making and reading; post-structuralist thought, modernism and Lacanian forms of psychoanalysis As Krauss herself says of Eva Hesse's work, the process aims to sap "from its very centre" modernism's "bachelor machine", logic and law in her ambition, its high seriousness, its engagement with visual experience and insistent female "Other" voice, striking parallels are constructed between Virginia Woolf (whose observations of Roger Fry delivering a lecture are quoted) and Krauss' own style (specifically her recollections of audiences with Michael [Fried] and Clem [Greenberg] )
The feminism underlying such a perspective remains implicit . For Krauss, like Woolf has an insider's view of what it is to be an Outsider; as a professional woman in a male club. As young initiate, Krauss laughed complicitly at Greenberg's jokes about "nice Jewish girls with typewriters" as she worked to become a "Clemberger" ; now as a mature writer, she freezes the underlying logic within its problematic and clinically and revealingly examines what remains of the corpse
Unlike Lucy Lippard, Krauss' recognition of the sexism within modernism, has not led to determined rejection of its critical apparatus via new definitions of value and a deliberate engagement with the large constituencies of politically engaged practitioners which modernism's narrow perspective refused to acknowledge. Or should, I say, yet. For illuminating and original as this book is about the limitations of Greenbergian modernism's logic seen from a post-structuralist perspective and suggestive as it is about psychoanalytic perspectives, it begs the question, can these tools also prove useful in the examination of that which is still truly repressed within modernist discourse, the work of women artists?
Arthur
Kroker and Marilouise Kroker The Hysterical Male: New Feminist Theory
(Macmillan, 1991)
Edith
Krull Kunst von Frauen deas Berufsbild der Bildenden Kunstlerinnen in vier Jahrhunderten
(Leipzig: Edition Leipzig, 1984)
Anette
Kubitza Die Kunst, das Loch, die Frau : feministische Kontroversen um Judy Chicagos "Dinner Party"
(Pfaffenweiler : Centaurus, 1994)
Anette
Kubitza Fluxus, Flirt, Feminismus? : Carolee Schneemanns Körperkunst und die Avantgarde
(Berlin : Reimer, 2002)
Kunst Geschichter Forschungsgruppe Marburg Feministische Bibliografie zur Frauen Forschung in der Kunstgeschichte Frauen
(Pfaffenweiler,Centaurus, 1993)
Barbara
Kutis Artist-Parents in Contemporary Art: Gender, Identity, and Domesticity
(Routledge, 2020)
Gerald
L . Belcher and Margaret L. Belcher eds
Collecting souls, gathering dust : the struggles of two American artists : Alice Neel and Rhoda Medary
(New York : Paragon House, 1991)
Emily
L. Newman Female Body Image in Contemporary Art: Dieting, Eating Disorders, Self-Harm, and Fatness
(Routledge, 2020)
Betty
La Duke Women Artists:Multi-cultural visions
(USA: Red Sea Press, 1992)
Betty
La Duke Companeras: Women,Art & social Change in Latin America
(San Francisco, 1985)
Betty
La Duke Africa: Women's Art, Women's Lives
(Trenton NJ: Africa World Press, 1997)
Suzanne
Lacy ed
Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art
(Seattle: Bay Press, 1995)
Suzanne
Lacy Leaving Art: Writings on Performance, Politics and Publics, 1974-2007
(Duke University Press, 2010)
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Suzanne Lacy Leaving Art: Writings on Performance, Politics and Publics, 1974-2007 Duke University Press, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-8223-4569-5
This new anthology of 30 texts by Suzanne Lacy written since 1974 will become an important point of reference to contemporary artists and theorists engaged in considering public art projects with social and political commitment. Her work for a long time has stood as an exemplar of strategies for worthwhile and productive forms of social engagement through art with a wide range of local community groups: as summarised in her book Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art (Bay press, 1995).
This new book offers insights into her own theorisation of events and works and the contexts which produced and framed her work. It will provoke new scholarship on her work and act as an ideal complement to the new monograph on her work which has just been produced.
Betty
LaDuke Migrants, Border Lands, And Social Justice
(Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, 2020)
Betty
LaDuke Africa through the eyes of women artists
(Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, 1991)
Morna
Laing and Jacki Willson ed
Revisiting the Gaze: The Fashioned Body and the Politics of Looking
(London: Bloomsbury, 2020)
Kimberley
Lamm Addressing the Other Woman: Textual Correspondences in Feminist Art & Writing
(Manchester University Press, 2018)
Lex Morgan
Lancaster Dragging Away: Queer Abstraction in Contemporary Art
(Duke University Press, 2022)
Lex Morgan
Lancaster Dragging Away: Queer Abstraction in Contemporary Art
(Duke University Press, 2022)
Anne
Larue and Magali Nachtergael Histoire de l'art d'un nouveau genre
(Paris : M. Milo, 2014)
Quinn
Latimer Like a Woman: Essays, Readings, Poems
(Sternberg Press, 2017)
Monika
Laue Wahre Weibeskunste? : zur Problematik einer femininen asthetik in der zeitgenoissischen Kunst ; Cindy Sherman, Rosemarie Trockel und Rebecca Horn
(Munchen : Scaneg, 1996)
Andrea M.
Lauritsch ed
Zions Töchter : jüdische Frauen in Literatur, Kunst und Politik
(Wien ; Münster : Lit , 2006)
Julie
Lavigne La traversée de la pornographie : politique et érotisme dans l'art féministe
(Montréal, Québec : Éditions du Remue-ménage, 2014)
Michele
Le Doeuff The Philosophical Imaginary
(London: Continuum, 2002)
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Michele Le Doeuff
The Philosophical Imaginary London: Continuum, 2002. ISBN 0-8264-5991-9
This important book analyses the manner in which philosophers "think in images", revealing the political unconscious at work in the philosophical tradition, in contrast to any claim to a collective imaginary. Instead Le Doeuff argues that images "cope" with problems in philosophy and the use of these images requires theorisation, in spite of philosophy's own claims about such illustrations as incidental and peripheral to thought. This was LeDoeuff's first book, and although two of its chapters have appeared before as articles in journals, this is the first full translation of the work into English. Le Doeuff, like Koyre and Bachelard, can be considered a critical epistemologist, working through rational critique to dissect philosophy's blind spots, its closures and aporias, especially with regard to its treatment of women. Philosophy's creation of Woman-as-Other implicit in its models and masculinist tropes is part and parcel of this analysis. So too is Le Doeuff's steady and careful unveiling of philosophy's own constructions in thought, especially its belief it can offer one reason or one imaginary and establish itself as hegemonic among disciplines, closing down on emerging domains and enforcing particular orthodoxies in its meta-discourse on itself. Le Doeuff also argues for women doing philosophy, acquiring a voice in the discourse, and not just providing commentaries as mediators of the tradition. [This book is a reprint of The Athlone Press 1989 edition. Trans. Colin Gordon. First published in French as L'Imaginaire Philosophique Paris: Editions Payot, 1980.]
Elisabeth
Lebovici Ce que le sida m'a fait: Art et Activism a la fin du XX Siecle / What AIDS has done to me
(JRP Ringier, 2017)
Candace
Lee A Gathering Place: Art-Making by Asian/Pacific Women
(Southern California, Pacific/Asia Museum, 1995)
Lorraine
Leeson Art for change: Works from 1975-2005/Arbeiten von 1975 bis 2005
(Berlin: NGBK, 2005)
Zoe
Leonard (Intro: Helen Molesworth) Analogue
(MIT, Wexner Center for the Arts, 2007)
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Zoe Leonard: Analogue Exhibition catalogue MIT/Wexner Center for the Arts, 2007. Curator: Helen Molesworth
ISBN: 978-0-262-12295-5
This book publishes some of the 400 photographs within this epic series (produced between 1998-2007) part-shown at documenta XII (2007), of shop fronts and displays of goods in mainly the streets of New York but expanded over the years to other cities in the world, Warsaw, Kampala, Jerusalem. The book contains an interesting essay of excerpts and quotations from other photographers, philosophers and writers, assembled by the artist, as an indication of her philosophy and approach.
O.
Leroux and M Jackson Inuit Women Artists
(San Francisco: Chronicle Books , 1996)
Margaret
Lessing et al Women Artists in South Africa
(Cape Town: South African National Gallery, 1985)
Susana Toruella
Leval Growing Beyond: Women Artists from Puerto Rico
(Museum of Modern Art of Latin America, 1988)
Luo
Li Zhu Nü xing zhu yi yi shu pi ping
(Beijing : Jiu zhou chu ban she, 2010)
Christian
LiClair Sexually Explicit Art, Feminist Theory, and Gender in the 1970s
(Routledge, 2024)
Lilith Billedet som Kampmiddel : Kvindebilleder Mellem 1968 og 1977
(Denmark: Informations Forlag,Lilith, 1977)
Lucy
Lim Six Contemporary Chinese Women Artists
(San Francisco: Chinese Culture Center, 1991)
Shi
Ling and Zheng Xiaojuan Contemporary Chinese Painters
(China, Beijing: Foriegn Languages Press (Text in Chinese and English), 1995)
Lucy
Lippard On the Beaten Track
(New Press/IB Tauris, 1999-2000)
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Lucy Lippard On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art and Place
New York: New Press/ London: IB Tauris, 2000. ISBN 1 56584 454 8
What turns the place where you live, into the place which other people travel to come to see? Tourism, perhaps. Lippard's attention to the local and how it is transformed into an object of tourism is combined with a close examination of artworks which critically examine these very processes in operation. With the exception of one section on the Holocaust Memorial sites, the tourism she explores in centred in the US's own tourist industry, colonisation and pioneer/settler culture, moving south to Mexico and north to Canada. Tourism's role as a cultural industry is analysed throughout in relation to fine art's attention to the contradictions and politics of tourism in objectifying the local people as "Others" - socially, culturally, or historically - to satisfy the consumerism of the tourist. In the process she raises many procative questions about how we look at the world around us.
Lucy
Lippard From the Center:Feminist Essays on Women's Art
(New York: Dutton, 1976)
Lucy
Lippard Get the Message? A Decade of Art for Social Change
(New York: E.P.Dutton, 1984)
Lucy
Lippard The Pink Glass Swan: Selected Feminist Essays on Art
(New York: New Press , 1996)
Lucy
Lippard Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of PreHistory
(New York:Pantheon Press, 1983)
Lucy
Lippard, commentary by Laura Cottingham Hot Potatoes: From Minimalism to Activism
(New York Critical Voices Series from G+B Arts international, May, 1997)
Maria Manuel
Lisboa Paula Rego's Map of Memory: National and Sexual Politics
(Ashgate, 2003)
Andrea
Liss Feminist Art and the Maternal
(University of Minnesota Press, 2009)
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Andrea Liss Feminist Art and the Maternal University of Minnesota Press, 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8166-4623-4
I am certain this book will become a valuable "must-read" for students and artists to break down the mythology of the separation between art and motherhood. Liss' book focuses on the very different models of motherhood projected in the work of some contemporary women artists from its repetitions in numerous chores and labour in Mierle Ukeles' Maintenance Art pieces to the poignancy of two mothers' grief in the collaboration between May Stevens and Civia Rosenberg. Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen's Riddles of the Sphinx and Mary Kelly's Post-Partum Document are considered as well as work by Ellen McMahon, Gail Rebhan, M.A.M.A., Catherine Opie, Renee Cox, Susan Hiller and Ngozi Onwurah. The book's strength is its attempt to diversify "motherhood" into a plethora of attitudes to "good-enough mothers", embracing the ambivalences between mothers and their daughters and sons, the stresses, pains and pleasures, while all the time mixing in the text the biographical with the analytical. This is a thoughtful exploration of what feminists have brought to this question over several generations of art production.
Fran
Lloyd Contemporary Arab Women's Art: Dialogues of the Present
(London: IB Tauris, 1999)
Valentina
Locatelli Without Restraint: Werke Mexikanischer Kunstlerinnen aus de Daros LatinAmerica Collection (Zurich)
(Hatje Cantz, 2016)
Amanda
Lock Swarr and Richa Nagar eds
Critical transnational feminist praxis
(Albany : State University of New York Press, 2010)
Yve
Lomax Writing the Image: An Adventure with Art and Theory
(New York: I. B. Tauris, 2000)
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Yve Lomax Writing the Image: An Adventure with Art and Theory
New York: I.B.Tauris, 2000
ISBN 1-86064-474-0
Part experiment in prose/poetry, part theoretical investigation of Michel Serres, Deleuze, Benjamin and theories of representation, vision and ideology, Yve Lomax's book reads like an artist's notebook or a diary and a treatise. Her writing practice closely mirrors her work and it is unfortunate that so few - and such poor - reproductions were included, though those that were, form important visual interludes within the space of the book. Irit Rogoff introduces and then intervenes to break up Yve Lomax's considered and intriguing mediations on the problems of representation, the artistic/ personal quest for knowledge and understanding, the attempts to develop critique within feminist practice and the frustrations and intellectual challenges of such work. This is an important book for artists and theorists as it reveals much about how theory mixed with experience becomes slowly absorbed into an individual's thought processes.
Yve
Lomax Sounding the Event: Escapades in Dialogue and Matters of art, Nature and Time
(London: IB Tauris, 2005)
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Yve Lomax Sounding the Event: Escapades in Dialogue and Matters of Art, Nature and Time London: IB Tauris,2005 ISBN: 1 85043 673 8
What constitutes an event? An exploration of this question is the subject of the book. Is an event going to happen, or has it happened already? And did we recognise it as such? Yve Lomax navigates her way through these simple questions, experimenting with voice, situation and dialogue, to more complex theorisations of noise, sound, space, time and modes of recognition; along the way examining statements and theories by Michel Serres, Isabelle Stengers, Maurice Blanchot, Alain Badiou, Jean-Francois Lyotard and others. Her purpose is to reflect on how interpretation operates in photography and how sound, image and text capture an event.
Carla
Lonzi and Giovanna Zapperi Autoportrait (French edition)
(JRP Ringier, 2012)
Carla
Lonzi and Giovanna Zapperi Carla Lonzi: Autoportrait (French)
(Zurich: JRP Ringier, 2012)
Victoria
Lu Taiwan (dangdai) Nuxing yishushi (History of Contemporary Taiwan Women Artists)
(Taipei: Yishujia Chubanshe (text in Chinese), 2002)
Lydia
Lunch Paradoxia: A Predator's Diary
(London: Creation Books, 1998)
Anne
Lydiat Lost for Words... and Without
(UK: Artists publications, 1999)
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Anne Lydiat lost for words...
UK: Artists' Publication, 1999. ISBN 0-9535604-0-6
Orders: Tel: + 44 (0) 114 2517334.
Inspired by a quote from Maurice Blanchot's Traces/ L'Amitie, the pages of this artist designed book open up a space for reflection, meditation. The promise remains Blanchot's 'space of reserve and friendship.' And it's up to the audience to chose its uses. - Review reproduced from Volume 5, n.paradoxa, Jan 2000. Katy Deepwell 'Book Reviews'
Anne Lydiat Without
UK: Artists' Publication, 1999 ISBN 0-9535604-0-7
Published on the occasion of her recent exhibition at Sint Elisabeth Begijnhof, Kortrijk, this limited edition was integral to the organisation of the exhibition. Playing on negative and positive marking of space - the theme of her exhibition as a whole - the pages are marked by a cutout of a single Acer leaf found at the Beguinage in the preparation for the exhibition, echoing the contemplative silence of the place itself.
Cindy
Lyle and Silvia Moore, Cynthia Navaretta eds
Women Artists of the World
(New York: Midmarch Arts Press, 1984)
Margo
Machida Unsettled Visions: Contemporary Asian American artists and the social imaginary
(Durham : Duke University Press, 2008)
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Margo Machida Unsettled Visions: Contemporary Asian American artists and the social imaginary Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2008 ISBN: 978-0822-342-45
This is a fascinating and remarkable collection of essays documenting the work of Asian American artists since the 1990s - with a strong focus on women artists. Machida analyses and unpicks the shifting meanings of 'Asian ' identities in and through her discussion of contemporary American art practices focusing on key themes: questions of position/positionality in identity politics; representations of the Other; social memory and trauma, and migration, diaspora and sense of place. Ten interviews are the focus of the book's research. Women artists featured in depth include: Tommie Arai, Kristine Aono, Yong Soon Min, Hanh Thi Pham, Ming Fay and Zarina.
Nazli
Madkour Women and Art in Egypt
(Egypt,Cairo: State Information Service Press, Arabic edition 1989, English edition c.1991, 1989-1991)
Salean Angelika
Maiwald Der fehlende Akt in der Kunst von Frauen : psychoanalytische Betrachtungen eines Tabus
(Frankfurt am Main ; New York : P. Lang, 1993)
Karolina
Majewska-Güde Ewa Partum's Artistic Practice: An Atlas of Continuity in Different Locations
(Bielefeld: Transcript-verlag, 2021)
Judy
Malloy ed
Women, Art and Technology
(Massachussetts: Cambridge, MIT Press, 2003)
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Judy Malloy (ed) Women, Art and Technology Foreword by Pat Bentson.
Massachusetts: Cambridge, MIT press, 2003. ISBN: 0-262-13424-1
This book is an invaluable compendium from Leonardo, whose project of the same name was designed to increase the contributions by women to the journal and to document women artists' long-standing involvement with new technologies/new media . Gendered differences to the dominant debates in this field and critiques of masculine biases are addressed but the book refreshingly focuses on women artists' production, offering overviews of genres, artists' perspectives and issue-based or region-based essays. New media embraces work which interfaces with science, computer art, telecommunications tools, video and new modes of interactivity in installations.
Contributors include: Patric D. Prince, Margaret Morse, Sheila Pinkel, Anna Couey, Kathy Brew, Steina, Joan Jonas, Dara Birnbaum, Jo Hanson, Helen Mayer/Newton Harrison, Sonya Rapoport, Lynn Hershman, Nancy Paterson, Pauline Oliveros, Rebecca Allen/Erkki Huhtamo, Donna J. Cox, Agnes Hegedis, Judith Barry, Jennifer Hall/Blyth Hazen, Brenda Laurel, Monika Flesichmann/Wolfgang Strauss, Char Davies, Cecile Le Pardo, Pamela Z, Nell Tenhaaf, Allucquere Rosanne Stone, Valerie Soe, Kathy Rae Huffman, Diane Fenster/ Celia Rabinovitch, Linda Austin/Leslie Ross,Dawn Stoppiello/Mark Coniglio, Jaishree K.Odin, Simone Oudhoff, Martha Burkle Bonecchi, Carol Stakenas and Zoe Sofia.
Alison
Marchant Living Room
(London: Working Press, 1998)
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Alison Marchant Living Room London:Working Press, 1998 ISBN 1 870736 40 0
This artist's book, dedicated to the people of Holly Street in East London, contains interviews and documentation of the changing face of this large housing estate since it was built in the late1950s and redeveloped in the late 1960s. However, it is far from a straightforward oral history of a place nor is it a simple tale of urban regeneration given further change in the 1990s and its impact on a population. Holly Street Estate is a one of the largest housing estates in East London, which is at a new moment of transition in a redevelopment to give one of the horrors of mass building, its "snake blocks"of corridorsand walkways which became increasingly identified with crime and deprivation, a new face lift for the next century. The juxtaposition of the voices of those in their 80s who remember the estate as it was first built, which they felt offered dreamhousing when compared to Victorian tenant housing or slums, to the voices of relative new immigrants to the estate whose lives are about to be marked by 'decanting' and rehousing is very poignant in the cross-section of residents interviewed. Holly Street because of the notorious collapse of Rowan Point one of the four large tower blocks which occupy the heart of the estate has been the subject of over 100 oral history books-produced through the project Centreprise- in the last thirty years. The book's overlaying of images of the council plans, of family photographs, of corners within the estate highlight the shifting face of the estate in a different register. Conceived as an artist's book rather than a piece of oral 'history' Marchant attempts to shift the gaze from social problems and into an exploration of space and its negotation implicit in the title 'Living Room'.
Janine
Marchessault ed
Mirror Machine: Video & Identity
(Canada: Tornot: YYZ Books & CRCCII, 1995)
Elena
Marchevska and Valerie Walkerdine eds
The Maternal in Creative Work: Intergenerational Discussions on Motherhood and Art
(Routledge, 2019)
Evans
Marian, Lonie, Bridie and Lloyd, Tilly eds.
A Women’s Picture Book: 25 Women Artists of Aotearoa (New Zealand)
(Wellington: Spiral Group/GP Books, 1988)
Anne
Marsh Difference: A Radical Approach to Women and Art
(Adelaide: Women's Art Movement, 1985)
Anne
Marsh Body and Self : Performance Art in Australia,1969-1992
(Australia: Oxford University Press, 1993)
More This review by Katy Deepwell was first published in Oxford Art Journal 1995 Vol 18 No. 2 p.119-122 --- A more familiar theoretical overview to exploring performance art through a critique of the subject (both feminist and Lacanian psychoanalytic perspectives) informs Anne Marsh's very interesting account of developments and sites for performance art in Australia, 1969-1982. Here, a sharp distinction is drawn between women practitioner's use of their own bodies in performance work outlining its relationship to the development of body art and those performances which are informed by feminist critique and response. Marsh also provides very important and interesting documentation of performance work over this period, although I often wished for more information to illuminate what was visible in the photographs.
Her discussion of women performance artists like Jill Orr, Jane Kent, Lyndal Jones, Ann Fogarty, Karen Finley to mention a few, provides a very interesting counterpoint to the performance work of Carolee Schneemann, Adrian Piper, Hannah Wilkes amongst others discussed by Jo Withers and Suzanne Lacy or the discussion of Ana Mendieta and Mary Beth Edelson by Gloria Feman Orenstein in The Power of Feminist Art . The former analysis (Withers,Lacy) references Moira Roth's research on Californian performance art (The Amazing Decade: Women and Performance Art in America,1970-1980 , Astro Artz, Los Angeles,1983) and the use made of Allan Kaprow's approach transformed by an engaged feminist politics introduced by Judy Chicago , while the latter, (Feman Orenstein) discusses artists in the context of Jungian as opposed to archeologically-inspired feminist interest in the archetype of the Great Goddess. Hopefully, the possibility of more accesible material from these books will also enable greater international comparisons in feminist art and encourage more courses and seminars on contemporary feminist art practice in art and art history.
Anne
Marsh Doing Feminism: Women’s art and feminist criticism in Australia
(The Miegunyah Press, 2022)
Deborah
Martin Painting, Literature and Film in Colombian Feminine Culture, 1940-2005: Of Border Guards, Nomads and Women
(Boydell and Brewer, Tamesis an imprint of Boydell & Brewer, 2012)
Karen
Mary Davalos Yolanda M. Lopez
(Los Angeles: UCLA Chicano
Studies Research Center
Press, 2008)
Christine
Mason Sutherland and Beverly Mason Rasporich Woman as Artist : Papers in Honour of Marsha Hanen
(University of Calgary Press, 1993)
Carol
Mavor Reading Boyishly: Roland Barthes, J M Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartique, Marcel Proust and DW Winnicott.
(Durham and London: Duke
University Press, 2008)
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Carol Mavor Reading Boyishly: Roland Barthes, J M Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartique, Marcel Proust and DW Winnicott. Duke University Press, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-8223-3962-5
Described on the bookjacket as a 'meditation on the threads that unite mothers and sons' this book looks again at four key writers and their self- representation, bringing to light the idea of reading boyishly as a means to examine again their approaches and how mother-child relationships function and figure in their work. The writing style is elliptical, playful - even hedonistic - and full of associative leaps while trying to reveal the pleasures mined genealogically within the text.
Louise
May ed
The feminist reconstruction of space (Essays from a symposium entitled Arch '96 held at the St. Norbert Arts and Cultural Centre, Sept. 27-29, 1999)
(St. Norbert, Man. : St. Norbert Arts and Cultural Centre, 2000)
Patricia
Mayayo Historias de Mujeres, historias del Arte
(Madrid: Catedra, 2003)
Monica
Mayer Si Somos Muchas Y No Somos Machas: Una recopilacion de textos periodisticos sobre mujeres artistas de Monica Mayer
(Mexico: Ediciones al Vapor, 2001)
Monica
Mayer ROSA CHILLANTE: MUJERES Y PERFORMANCE EN MEXICO
(Mexico: AVJeditores with a grant from the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 2004)
Catherine
McCormack Women in the picture: What Culture does with Female Bodies
(W W Norton and Co, 2022)
Catherine
McCormack Women in the Picture: Women, Art and the Power of Looking
(Icon Books, 2021)
Helen
McDonald Erotic Ambiguities: The Female Nude in Art
(London and New York: Routledge, 2001)
Uri
McMillan Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance
(New York University Press, 2015)
Patricia
Mellencamp Indiscretions: Avantgarde Film,Video & Feminisms
(USA, Indiana University Press, 1990)
David
Mellor Lilianne Lijn
(UK:Warwick Arts Centre: Mead Gallery, 2005)
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David Alan Mellor Liliane Lijn: Works, 1959-80 exhibition catalogue Warwick Arts Centre: Mead Gallery, 2005 ISBN: 0-9026837-5-6
This is the first major monograph on Liliane Lijn. Mellor's text focuses on her adult life, outlining the development of her practice as one of Britain's early kinetic sculptors and the circles in which she worked, as well as acting as an extensive and valuable catalogue raisonne.
Lourdes
Mendez Antropologia Feminista
(Madrid: LETRAS Universitarias: Editorial Sintesis, 2007)
Jorn
Merkert and Felicitas Rink eds
Zauberei und Zähneklappern : Texte und Reden zu Künstlerinnen 1973 - 1999
(Berlin : Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen, 1867 , 1999)
Marsha
Meskimmon Transnational Feminisms, Transversal Politics and Art: Entanglements and Intersections
(Routledge, 2020)
Marsha
Meskimmon The Art of Reflection: Women Artists' Self-portraiture in the Twentieth Century
(London: Scarlet Press, 1996)
Marsha
Meskimmon Engendering the City: Women Artists and Urban Space
(Vol.1 Nexus. London: Scarlet Press, 1997)
Marsha
Meskimmon Contemporary art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination
(Routledge, 2010)
Marsha
Meskimmon Women Making Art: History, Subjectivity, Aesthetics
(London: Routledge, 2003)
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Marsha Meskimmon Women Making Art: History, Subjectivity,Aesthetics
London: Routledge, 2003 ISBN 0-415-24278-9
The three parts of this book, History, Subjectivity and Aesthetics, present specific case studies of a wide range of women artists/art practices in the context of a general argument about the importance of women's art practice to major themes in art historical/cultural analysis. Although this is clearly a feminist analysis, drawing on a range of theoretical work identified as feminist, the word feminism and any overt mention of feminist reading(s) is underplayed throughout the book and instead the study of women artists is presented as an exhilaration and a danger, providing new epistemes in culture. The book presents some strong comparisons between women artists approaches in different countries to certain themes: for example, in the representations Vietnam in America (Maya Lin, Martha Rosler, Trinh T. Minh-ha); women artists of the Anglophone Africa Diaspora (Faith Ringgold and Sokari Douglas Camp); Janet Lawrence and Fiona Foley and Joan Brassil (Australia); Claude Cahun, Rosy Martin and Cathy de Monchaux. A context for a trans-national comparisons or reference to the specific art world context for the work as it rises to become an object of study for the art historian is not developed. The work is instead located in relation to theoretical propositions and specific histories through detailed readings of certain works.
Marsha
Meskimmon and Phil Sawdon Drawing Difference: Connections Between Gender and Drawing
(IB Tauris, 2016)
Olga M.
Mesropova and Stacey Weber-Feve eds
Being and becoming visible: women performance and visual culture
(Baltimore and London: John Hopkins University Press, 2010)
Terry R.
Meyers Mary Heilmann: Save the Last Dance for Me
(London: Afterall Books, 2007)
Rachel
Middleman Radical Eroticism: Women, Art, and Sex in the 1960s
(University of California Press, 2018)
Margot
Mifflin Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo
(Random House, 1997, 2013)
Suzana
Milevska Gender Difference in the Balkans: Archives of representations of gender difference and agency in visual culture and contemporary art in the Balkans (text in English)
(Germany: VDM Verlag Dr. Muller
Aktiengesellschaft, 2010)
Lynn F.
Miller and Sally S. Swenson Lives and Works: Talks with Women Artists
(New York,Metuchen, London: Scarecrow Press, 1981)
Jacqueline
Millner and Catriona Moore Contemporary Art and Feminism
(Routledge, 2022)
Jose
Miranda Justo et. al eds
Questioning the Oneness of Philosophy, I: Philosophy and the Arts II: Philosophy, Gender and Sexual Difference
(Centre for Philosophy, University of Lisbon, 2018)
Allyson
Mitchell and Cait McKinney eds
Inside Killjoy's Kastle : dykey ghosts, feminist monsters, and other lesbian hauntings
(Vancouver, BC : UBC Press ; Toronto, ON : Art Gallery of York University, 2019)
Leah
Modigliani Engendering an avant-garde: The unsettled landscapes of Vancouver photo-conceptualism
(Manchester University Press, 2018)
Helen
Molesworth ed
Twice Untitled and Other Pictures (looking back) Louise Lawler
(London: MIT Press and Wexner Art Centre, Ohio, 2006)
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Helen Molesworth (ed) Twice Untitled and Other Pictures (looking back) Louise Lawler London, The MIT Press, 2006. Wexner Art Centre, Ohio ISBN: 978-0-262-62206-6
With essays by Rosalyn Deutsche, Ann Goldstein and Helen Molesworth, this catalogue from a survey exhibition presents a reconsideration of Lawler's method of appropriation: literally, photographing the work of others. Deutsche outlines and attempts to situate her feminist politics, while Molesworth emphasises Lawler's pointed institutional critique, partic-ularly how the art world treats art, identifying its photographic poignancy through the framing of the small details of power, ownership and display. Goldstein considers Lawler's feminist critique of authorship and her collaborations with other artists.
Helen
Molesworth and Taylor Walsh Louise Lawler
(MIT Press (October Files), 2013)
Kate
Mondloch A Capsule Aesthetic: Feminist Materialisms in New Media Art
(University of Minnesota Press, 2018)
Nadine Käthe
Monem Riot grrrl: revolution girl style now!
(London: Black Dog, 2007)
Catriona
Moore ed
Dissonance: Feminism and the Arts, 1970-1990
(Allen and Unwin/Artspace, 1994)
Catriona
Moore Indecent Exposures: Twenty Years of Feminist Photography in Australia,1970-1990
(Allen and Unwin,Sydney, 1993)
Sylvia
Moore ed
Yesterday & Tomorrow: California Women Artists
(New York: Midmarch Press, 1989)
Sabra
Moore Openings: A Memoir from the Women's Art Movement, New York City 1970-1992 ( forewords by Lucy Lippard and Margaret Randall)
(New York: New Village Press, 2016)
Renate
Morell Weibliche Aesthetik? Kunststuck
(Pfaffenweiler : Centaurus-Verlagsgesellschaft, 1993)
Susan
Morgan Joan Jonas: I Want to Live in the
Country (And Other Romances)
(London: Afterall Books, 2006)
Camille
Morineau with Guilia Lamoni Artistes femmes: de 1905 à nos jours
(Paris: Centres Pompidou, 2010)
Jacqueline
Morreau and S. Kent eds
Women's Images of Men
(London: Writers and Readers, 1985)
Rebecca
Morrill eds
Great Women Artists
(Phaidon, 2019)
Catherine
Morris and Vincent Bonin eds
Materializing Six Years: Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art
(Boston: MIT Press, 2012)
Ghaida
Moussa, Ghadeer Malek eds
Min Fami: Arab Feminist Reflections on Identity, Space and Resistance
(Inanna Publications and Education Inc., 2017)
Roswitha
Mueller Valie Export: Fragments of the Imagination
(Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1994)
Molly H.
Mullin Culture in the Marketplace: Gender, Art and Value in the American Southwest
(Duke University Press, 2000)
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Molly H. Mullin Culture in the Marketplace: Gender Art and Value in the American Southwest Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. ISBN 0 8223 2610 8
An in-depth analysis of a group of elite East Coast US women collectors and the influence of their work in generating a market for Native American art. An analysis of the redrawing of questions about "culture", "tourism" and "authenticity" in early 20th century and its impact today.
Charlotte
Mullins A little feminist history of art
(London: Tate Publishing, 2019)
Eleanor
Munro Originals: American Women Artists
(New York: Simon Schuster, 1979)
Chérie
N. Rivers To Be Nsala's Daughter: Decomposing the Colonial Gaze
(Duke University Press, 2023)
Jennifer C.
Nash The Black Body in Ecstasy
(Duke University Press, 2014)
Lynda
Nead The Female Nude: Art,Obscenity and Sexuality
(London: Routledge, 1992)
Charmaine A.
Nelson Representing the Black Female Subject in Western Art
(Routledge, 2015)
More Introduction Part I: From Girls to Women: Locating Black Female Subjects in Western Art 1. Through An-Other’s Eyes: White Canadian Artists – Black Female Subjects 2. Racing Childhood: Representations of Black Girls in Canadian Art Part II: Slavery and Portraiture: Agency, Resistance and Art as Colonial Discourse 3. Slavery, Portraiture and the Colonial Limits of Canadian Art History 4. The Fruits of Resistance: Reading Portrait of a Negro Slave on the Sly 5. Tying the Knot: Black Female Slave Dress in Canada Part III: The Nude and the Naked: Black Women, White Ideals and the Racialization of Sexuality 6. Coloured Nude: Fetishization, Disguise, Dichotomy 7. The "Hottentot Venus" in Canada: Modernism, Censorship and the Racial Limits of Female Sexuality Part IV: From White Marble to Coloured Stone: Aesthetics, Materiality and Degrees of Blackness 8. White Marble, Black Bodies and the Fear of the Invisible Negro: Signifying Blackness in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Neoclassical Sculpture 9. Vénus Africaine: Race, Beauty and African-ness 10. Allegory, Race and the Four Continents: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux’s Les quatre parties du monde soutenant la sphere céleste. Conclusion: Whiteness as Collective Narcissism, Towards a New Vision
Cindy
Nemser Art Talk:Conversations with 12 Women Artists
(USA, 1975, 1995)
Diane
Neumaier ed
Reframings: New American Feminist Photographers
(Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995)
Darren
Newbury, Lorena Rizzo, Kylie Thomas eds
Women and photography in Africa : creative practices and feminist challenges
(Routledge, 2020)
Kate
Newton and Catherine Fehily, Liz Wells eds
Shifting Horizons: Women's Landscape Photography
(London: I.B. Tauris, 2000)
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Liz Wells, Kate Newton & Catherine Fehily Shifting Horizons: Women's
Landscape Photography Now London: IB Tauris, 2000 ISBN: 1 86064 635 2
The first in a series of 5 planned volumes on women and contemporary photography, under the series title Ellipsis, from Iris, Women's Photography project at Staffordshire University, building on the work undertaken already in I Spy (I.B.Tauris) and Nexus (Scarlet Press, six volumes 1997-1999) and their website. Includes short essays by Liz Wells, John Stathatos, David Bate, Stevie Bezencenet, Martha Langford, Roberta McGrath, Sue Swingler on 12 women contemporary photographers whose theme is landscape. Includes artists' statements and is lavishly illustrated in colour.
Abuy
Nfubea Afrofeminismo.: 50 años de lucha y activismo de mujeres negras en España (1968-2018)
(Ménades Editorial , 2021)
L.
Nicholson ed
Feminism/Postmodernism
(Routledge, 1990)
Olivia
Nitis Istorii Marginale ale Artei Feministe
(Bucharest: Vellant, 2014)
Mignon
Nixon Fantastic Reality: Louise Bourgeois and a Story of Modern Art
(Cambridge: Mass, MIT press, an October book, 2005)
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Mignon Nixon Fantastic Reality: Louise Bourgeois and a Story of Modern Art
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2005. An October book ISBN: 0-262-14089-6
The author approaches the 'fantastic reality' (Bourgeois's own term) of this artist's work through psychoanalysis, unpicking her work through a critique of Freud and the embrace of Melanie Klein as well as the artist's articulation of female subjectivity, psycho-sexual conflicts and/or anxieties in her sculptures. Bourgeois's sculptures in this framework represent part-objects or an object of the drives. Nixon has published several significant essays on Bourgeois before but this book represents the larger part of her research on the artist and is a substantial and considered study. Given the all too frequent reading of Bourgeois through her biography, this book seeks to 'demonstrate that her challenge to the Oedipal narratives of late modernism is grounded in a distinctive psychoanalytic feminism - with its own historical bases', namely a dissident logic of both 'deference and difference' derived from art circles, including Surrealism, in Paris in the 1930s and New York in the 1940s-1970s.
Mignon
Nixon Eva Hesse
(Cambridge: Massachusetts: MIT press, October books, 2002)
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Mignon Nixon (ed) Eva Hesse
Boston: MIT press: October Files, 3 2002. ISBN 0-262-14080-2
This volume brings together several important interviews and essays on Eva Hesse already published elsewhere: e.g Cindy Nemser's 1970 interview with the artist in the year she died; Mel Bochner's retrospective discussion of her in 1992; two of Rosalind Krauss's essays on her work; an essay by Briony Fer from Art History and Anne Wagner's essay from her Three Artists (Three Women). Mignon Nixon's own essay 'Ringaround Arose: 2 in 1' represents the "new" scholarship and takes up the theme of the artist's self-representation in photographs posing with her artworks. Lucy Lippard's authoritative Eva Hesse (1976) as well as the value placed upon Hesse's own story of her life and work found in her journals emerge as repeated concerns throughout this volume, raising the question again of whether the facts of her biography have overshadowed discussion of her art. A new exhibition of her work at the Tate Modern alongside more scholarship presented through a conference at Leeds University in the UK will no doubt continue this debate.
Elina
Norandi Cent Dues Artistes
(Barcelona: Univers Llibres, 2022)
Vera
Norwood Made From This Earth: American Women and Nature
(USA Chapel Hill: University of North Caroline Press, 1993)
Soledad
Novoa Donoso ed.
Seminario historia del arte y feminismo : relatos, lecturas, escrituras, omisiones, 26 de septiembre 2012
(Santiago, Chile : Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, 2013)
Irene
Noy Emergency Noises: Sound Art and Gender
(Oxford University Press, 2017)
C. Jill
O'Bryan Carnal Art: Orlan's Refacing
(University of Minnesota Press, 2005)
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C. Jill O'Bryan Carnal Art: Orlan's Refacing
University of Minnesota Press, 2005. ISBN: 0-8166-4323-7
Another study analysing the work of Orlan! This is not a token essay about feminist politics but a lengthy analysis, drawn from a PhD, which focuses on Orlan's writing as much as her oeuvre as a whole and her strategies as a postmodern feminist. C.Jill O'Bryan analyses and employs a wide range of tools from poststructuralist theory in her discussion, including Derrida's concept of auto-affection in which self-presence is lost; performativity; the carnivalesque and how Orlan's work negotiates, explodes and challenges binary oppositions of interiority/exteriority; self/other; beauty/monstrous femininity in her concept of 'woman-to-woman transsexuality'. The book concludes with a performative dialogue which draws on and amplifies interviews with the artist from 2000-2001 conducted with Tanya Augsburg. What is refreshing about O'Bryan's account is the priority given to the artist's voice and strategy as an artist in contrast to so many texts on Orlan which have emphasised the body (as if it were a generic category) or the author's direct reaction to the work as image alone.
María
Ochoa Foreword by Amalia Mesa-Bains
Creative collectives : Chicana painters working in community
(Albuquerque, N.M. : University of New Mexico Press ; Lancaster : Gazelle, 2003)
María
Ochoa ; foreword by Amalia Mesa-Bains Creative collectives : Chicana painters working in community
(Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2003)
Ailsa
O'Connor Unfinished Work, Articles & Notes on Women and the Politics of Art
(Melbourne / Richmond: Greenhouse, 1982)
Eimear
O'Connor ed
Irish women artists, 1800-2009: familiar but unknown
(Dublin: Four Courts (TRIARC research studies in Irish art, n°3), 2010)
Lorraine
O'Grady and Amanda Gilvin Teaching and Learning with Lorraine O'Grady: Both/And
(USA: Davis Museum at Wellesley College, 2023)
Old Boys Network next Cyberfeminist International
(Rotterdam: March 8-11, 1999)
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Old Boys Network next Cyberfeminist International, Rotterdam, March 8-11 1999. ISBN 3-933557-14-3 The second indispensible publication from Old Boys Network mapping Cyber-feminism and the work of 20+ participants at their second major meeting in 1999. Continuing the dialogue about the relationship between feminism/ cyberculture; touching on networks in global capitalism; the body from gene to medical imaging on the net; and new strategies for transformation offered by new technologies, democracies on the net and feminism.
Just received: Stephen Kovats (ed) Media-Revolution: Ost-West Internet Dessau: Edition Bauhaus,1999. ISBN 3-593-36365-8. Invaluable documentation of the Ostranenie Festivals.
Orlan, Bonnafous-Boucher, Maria (preface) Ceci est mon corps... Ceci est mon logiciel: entre cultures occidentale et non occidentale
(Belgique : Al Dante éditions, 2011)
Raquel
Osborne La construcción sexual de la realidad : un debate en la sociología contemporánea de la mujer
(Madrid : Cátedra, 1993)
Nena
Ossa La Mujer Chilena en el Arte
(Chile,Santiago: Editorial, Lord Cochrane, 1987)
Kenza
Oumlil North American Muslim Women Artists Talk Back: Assertions of Unintelligibility
(Routledge, 2022)
Craig
Owens 'The Discourse of Others' in H.Foster Postmodern Culture
(Pluto, also reprinted as The Anti-Aesthetic, 1985)
Ceren
Ozpinar, Mary Kelly eds
Under the Skin: Feminist Art and Art Histories from the Middle East and North Africa Today
(Oxford University Press, 2020)
Martina
Pachmanova Virnost v pohybu / Mobile Fidelity
(Prague: One Woman Press, 2001)
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Martina Pachmanova Vìrnost v pohybu / Mobile Fidelity (text in Czech only)
Prague, One Woman Press, 2001 ISBN 80-86356-10-8 A feminist viewpoint is still not frequently used in the Czech art criticism. Martina Pachmanova, a major supporter of feminist approaches in the field of art history, has decided to provide especially the younger generation of both critics and artists with a dozen views on feminism and its role in art and visual culture.
Pachmanova's searching for a less academic form and a theoretically less structured interview seems to be an ideal vehicle for this purpose. The flow of spoken words makes more visible the general fields of interest of the inteviewees who represent diverse branches of feminist cultural practice. Next to those who helped to shape feminism more than thirty years ago (Linda Nochlin, Martha Rosler) there are the younger academicians or artists (Amelia Jones, Mira Schor) whose attitudes have refreshed feminism and adapted it to current developments in visual culture. The discussed topics are art history, subjectivity and identity, aesthetics, sexual politics, public space and art institutions, However, a thin red line links all the interviews and is formed by a few recurring questions: Is it possible to redefine feminist art history? If yes, then how? Should feminist artists work within or outside the current art institutional structures? How can women be represented in art? Is the social and political involvement of artists, a dated practice? And last but not least, is American feminist practice valid in the new democracies of the Central and Eastern Europe? The book does not provide the reader with clear answers but is definitely food for thought.
Martina interviews Linda Nochlin, Natalie Boymel Kampen, Kaja Silverman, Susan Rubin Suleiman, Amelia Jones, Mira Schor, Jo Anna Isaak, Janet Wolff, Martha Rosler, Marcia Tucker and Carol Duncan.
Editor's note: Martina Pachmanova's interview with Kaja Silverman was Review reproduced in English in n.paradoxa Vol. 6, July 2000.
Kirsten
Pail Buick Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia
Lewis and the Problem of Art
History's Black and Indian Subject
(Durham: Duke University Press, 2010)
Luciana
Parisi Abstract Sex: Philosophy, Biotechnology and the Mutations of Desire
(London: Continuum, 2004)
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Luciana Parisi Abstract Sex: Philosophy, Biotechnology and the Mutations of Desire London: Continuum, 2004 ISBN: 0-8264-6990-6
Abstract sex is proposed as a new model in a bio-digital age for considering the relations between conceptions of sex, femininity and desire. Drawing heavily on the ideas of Deleuze and Guattari, Parisi considers the stratification of abstract sex in bio-digital (late twentieth century); bio-cultural (nineteenth century) and bio-physical (3,900 million years ago) layers. Each layer has a corresponding set of definitions and constituent elements: cloning, sexual reproduction and bacterial sex; recombinant desire, pleasure and trading; egg, fluids and mitochondria. The book discusses the impact of bio-technologies in changing how we think of sex and reproduction; disembodiment and embodiment; passive and active roles; mind and body and moves towards a third way out of these dualities, conceiving the autonomy of feminine desire through a thousand modes in a dynamic between and beyond order and mutation.
Barbara
Paul with Dt. from Pamela E. Selwyn FormatWechsel : Kunst, populäre Medien und Gender-Politiken = FormatChange: art, popular media and gender politics
(Wien : Sonderzahl , 2008)
Lisa
Pearson ed
It is Almost That: A Collection of Image+Text Work by Women Artists and Writers
(Siglio, 2011)
Tove Beate
Pedersen and Elin Svenneby eds
Kunsthistorie, kvinners kunst, kunstkritikk
(Norges forskningsråd, Sekretariatet for kvinneforskning, 1996)
People's Art Association From Half to Whole
(Korea: People's Art Association, 1985)
Laura Elisa
Perez Chicana art : the politics of spiritual and aesthetic altarities
(Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press ; Chesham, 2007)
Martina
Peter-Bolaender Frauen Korper Kunst: Dokumentation der Tagungen Frauen Korper Kunst,1991-1994
(Kassel: Furore, 1994)
Diane
Peters Women and the visual arts
(Waterloo, Ont. : The Library, Wilfrid Laurier University, 1990)
Anne Ring
Petersen Migration into art: Transcultural identities and art-making in a globalised world
(Manchester: Manchester University Press , 2017)
Donna
Petrescu ed
Altering Practices: Feminist Politics and Poetics of Space
(Routledge, 2007)
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Doina Petrescu (ed) Altering Practices: Feminist Politics and Poetics of Space
London: Routledge, 2007 ISBN: 978-0-41535786-9
This book draws together again contributors from the Alterities conference in Paris in 1999 to offer both reflections on women's practice in architecture and theories of feminine space. Petrescu notes the production of how a new view of women's "altered practices" in these fields has emerged since 1999. The diverse contributors - architects, curators, artists, cultural theorists and architectural historians - discuss the journey to the conference (as a political/ideolgoical conjuncture) as well as the time since in a manner which beings to the fore the shifting definitions and mobilisations of the feminine and feminism(s) in relation to conceptions of space in Europe and the US in the last twenty years. The practices of curating, speaking, writing, drawing, as well as the privileging or prioritising of tasks, or spaces in relationship to practices of the everyday are all discussed in topics as diverse as 'urban curating' (Meike Schalk, Marion von Osten), 'cooking' (Kim Torgal), 'confessional constructions' (Jane Rendall) and 'longing' in the making, planning and building of architectural spaces (in the architectural groups Matrix, muf and Taking Place).
F.
Pezoldo Pezoldo: Kunst fur das 21 Jahrhundert: Entwurf einer Gegenwelt / Art for the 21st Century: Design of a Counterworld
(Edition: Cantz, 1995)
Alison
Phipps The Politics of the Body: Gender in a Neoliberal and Neoconservative Age
(Polity, 2014)
Sherry
Piland and Donna Bachmann eds
Women artists : an historical, contemporary, and feminist bibliography
(Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1978, 1994)
Praba
Pilar Cyberlabia: Gendered Thoughts and Conversations on Cyberspace
(California: Tela Press, 2005)
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Praba Pilar Cyberlabia: Gendered Thoughts and Conversations on Cyberspace California: Tela Press, 2005 www.prabapilar.com
In this book and DVD, Praba Pilar, a performance artist based in California, profiles some of her own work, notably her rendition of Computers are a Girl's Best Friend, and discusses the place of women in cyberworld with four academics, cyberworkers and activists. The interviews examine how race and gender inequalities are Review reproduced in cyberspace not only through problems of access and literacy, but also through the control or monopolisation of software/hardware in corporations and government. Contesting the idea that cyberspace is neutral or individual, the discussions reference a wide range of different forms of collective activist interventions against capitalism, racism and patriarchy.
Robert
Pinto, Nicolas Bourriaud and Maia Damianovic Lucy Orta
(London: Phaidon, 2003)
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Robert Pinto, Nicolas Bourriaud, Maia Damianovic Lucy Orta London: Phaidon, 2003 ISBN: 0-7148-4300-8
A new monograph from Phaidon incorporating the usual mixture of essays (including the authors above and Jorge Orta, the artist's husband), interviews (with Paul Virilio), artist's writings and numerous colour photographs. Lucy Orta is a British artist, based in Paris whose work, exhibited mainly in the last decade, crosses the boundaries of public performance, fashion and architecture. Her first major work, Refuge Wear (1992-1996), was launched under the Louvre Pyramid in Paris Fashion Week. Subsequent works offer inter-connecting suits for large scale performances, meals, tents, ambulances and a horti-recycling enterprise, echoing elements from Lygia Clark and Krystof Wodzjicko.
Adrian
Piper Out of Order,Out of Sight (2 Vols)
(Boston, Mass: MIT, 1996)
More Review reproduced from Volume 1, n.paradoxa, Jan 1998. Katy Deepwell 'Short Reviews of New Publications' - This collection of writings by Adrian Piper brings together what might first appear as the two divergent strands in her creative work: her art and her engagement with philosophy,specifically her writings on Kant. However her work in art criticism, on Xenophobia and on the concept of 'meta-art' has many direct links with her art production in performance, photography and installation since the late 1960s. This method of publication offers great insight into these connections and the overall approach in Piper's work. For these two volumes also form a beautifully produced documentation of over three decades of work and creative politcally-engaged thought : a body of work which was designed to challenge, to provoke and to question collective understandings of identity, of racist attitudes and Xenophobia in American society.
Vol 1 : Selected Writings in Meta-Art, 1968-1992 :
35 essays and statements divided into 4 Sections: 'The Metaphysics of Conceptual Art'; 'Performance Catalysis on the Street and in the World' ; 'Object Catalysis and Political Self-Awareness'; 'Racism, Racial Stereotyping and Xenophobia'.
Vol 2 : Selected Writings in Art Criticism 1967-1992 :
Twenty-Four essays divided into three Sections : 'Conceptualizing Conceptual Art'; 'Art-World Politics'; 'Art-World Practice and Real-World Politics'
Griselda
Pollock Differencing the Canon: Feminist Desire and the Writing of Arts Histories
(London: Routledge, 1999)
Griselda
Pollock Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum: Time, Space and the Archive
(Routledge, 2007)
Griselda
Pollock Feminism: A Bad Memory?
(Verso, 2019)
Griselda
Pollock After-affects | Afterimages: Trauma and Aesthetic Transformation in a virtual feminist museum
(Manchester University Press, 2013)
Griselda
Pollock and Alison Rowley Now and Then: Feminism, art and history; a critical response to Documenta XI
(Leeds: CentreCath, 2006)
Griselda
Pollock and Victoria Turvey-Sauron The Sacred and the Feminine: Imagination and Sexual Difference
(London: IB Tauris, 2008)
Bea
Porqueres Den Segles de Creativitat femenina: una-altra historia de l'art
(Barcelona: Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona: Instituto de Ciencas de la Educcaion, 1995)
B.
Porqueres Reconstruir Una Tradicion : Las artistas en el Mundo Occidental
(Madrid: Libreria Mujeres, 1994)
Louise
Pouissant and Ernestine Daubner eds
Art & Biotechnologies: 2 volumes plus A DVD Anthology of Biotech & A-Life Artworks
(Montreal: Presses de l'Universite du Quebec, 2005)
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Louise Pouissant and Ernestine Daubner (eds.)
Art & Biotechnologies: 2 volumes plus A DVD Anthology of Biotech & A-Life Artworks Montreal: Presses de l'Universite du Quebec, 2005 ISBN: 2 7605 1328 9
The Groupe de recherche en arts mediatiques (GRAM) at Universite du Quebec is finalising a DVD which will be an extensive compilation of documents of bio-(tech) and a-life artworks to accompany this new book. Over 100 international artists working in the area of biotechnology (i.e. genetic art, transgenic art, clone art) and other related areas (such as artificial life, e-volve, etc.) have been invited to submit up to 12 digital images or other visual documents (videos, etc) of one or more of their artworks for inclusion in this anthology. Women contributors include: Art Oriente Objet (Marion Laval-Jeantet and Benoit Mangin); Heather Barnett; Shannon Bell;Laura Beloff and Erich Berger; Bioteknica (Jennifer Willet & Shawn Bailey); Dalia Chauveau; Laura Cinti; Justine Cooper; Gina Czarnecki; Marta de Menezes; Sara Diamond; Diana Dominiguez; Helen Donis-Keller; Anne Esperet; Hanna Haaslahti; Kathy High; Aniko Meszaros; Nancy Nisbet; Christine Palmieri; Jane Prophet; Melinda Rackham; Sonya Rapoport; Julia Roedica; Susan Robb; Nina Sobell; subRosa (Faith Wilding); Tissue Culture & Art Project (Oron Catts & Ionat Zurr);Nell Tenhaaf; Annie Thibault; Catherine Wagner; Amy Youngs; Janet Zweig.
Leila
Pourtavaf ed
Féminismes Électriques
(Montreal: La Centrale and Les Éditions du rémue-ménage, 2012)
More Feminismes Electriques documents the evolution of feminist artistic practices over the last decade at La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, a feminist artist-run center in Montreal, with a 40 year history of exhibiting local, national and international feminist and women artists.
Additional information: Essays by Helena Reckitt, Therese St-Gelais, Trish Salah, Bernadette Houde, and Aneessa Hashmi, as well as a series of artist texts: Manon Tourigny in conversation with Stephanie Chabot and Dominique Petrin, Reena Katz with Jumana Manna and Onya Hogan-Finlay with Chris Kraus. The publication includes an artist poster by G.B. Jones as well a detailed programming history of a decade of the La Centrale's programming by Roxanne Arsenault. Book design by Cecilia Berkovic.
Reine
Prat Exploser le plafond : précis de féminisme à l’usage du monde de la culture
(Paris : Rue de l'échiquier, 2021)
Nancy
Princenthal Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s
(Thames and Hudson, 2019)
Nancy
Princenthal ed
The deconstructive impulse : women artists reconfigure the signs of power, 1973-1991
(New York : Munich ; New York : Neuberger Museum of Art , DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2011)
Nancy
Prinsenthal and Phillip Earenflight eds
Joyce Kozloff: Co+ordinates
(Pennsylvania: Carlisle, Trout Gallery, 2008)
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Nancy Prinsenthal and Phillip Earenflight (ed.) Joyce Kozloff: Co+ordinates
Pennsylvania: Carlisle, Trout Gallery, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-9768488-8-2
Beautifully illustrated, this book and exhibition catalogue surveys Joyce Kozloff's rich and decorative series of works in the last decade. The essays compare and consider these works in relation to her last two decades of work of public art, her feminist and anti-war protests from the 1970s to the present and her role in the pattern and decoration movement in the USA. Works discussed like Targets, Rocking the Cradle, Knowledge and Boy's Art are particularly striking for the ways in which they overlay and juxtapose maps to reimagine the complexities of geo-political conflicts as a clash of cultural forms and knowledge constructions.
Project Arts Centre Performance: The Project Papers
(Dublin: Project Arts Centre/Dog and Bones Publishing, 1998)
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Performance: The Project Papers
Dublin: Project Arts Centre/Dog and Bones publishing 1998
ISBN 1-872493-11-4
From a conference in 1996, this publication contains five insightful essays into live art/performance - three of specific interest to feminists by Claire MacDonald; Catherine Ugwu and Elaine Sisson which explore the questions of internationalism; gender as performance and the nature of writing about performance.
Cecilia
Puerto Latin American Women Artists,Kahlo & Look Who Else. A Selective Annotated Bibliography
(Westport, Connecticut & London, Art Reference Collection, No.21, 1996)
Domingo
Pujante González ed
Ob-scena: l'obscène au féminin au tournant du XXIe siècle
(Paris : Éd. l'Improviste, 2013)
Diana
Quinby ed
Des femmes dans l'art : hommage à Aline Dallier (1927-2020), historienne d'art, pionnière de la critique d'art féministe en France
(Paris : Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, 2022)
Diana
Quinby Le Collectif Femmes/ Art a Paris dans less annees 1970; une contribtuion a l'etude du movement
(Paris: Universite Pantheon-Sorbonne (PhD), 2003)
Melinda
Rackham and Elvis Richardson CoUNTess: Spoiling Illusions Since 2008
(Australia: Countess, 2023)
Yvonne
Rainer Feeling are Facts: A Life
(Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006)
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Yvonne Rainer Feeling are facts: a life Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006. ISBN: 0-262-18251-3
Having performed at the World Trade Centre just three days before 9/11, Yvonne Ranier was shocked at the events as they unfolded but then became involved campaigning against the war in Iraq, an indication of her strong political commitments have been centered in women's rights and feminist politics. This is how and why she began this highly introspective ironic and humorous memoir that covers her contradictory and difficult childhood, her personal and sentimental life and a successful career that spans from her studies with Merce Cunningham and Martha Graham to the creation of her own choreographies and dances.
In telling her story, Rainer recurs to every possible means of communication speaking not only throughout words but also through snapshots taken during rehearsals and performances, extracts from her diary, pictures of her family and friends, stills from her movies etc.
All these elements give the book great depth which allows the reader to follow a story that unravels on three different levels: her personal growth; her development as a talented and successful choreographer and dancer, and finally, how the USA has itself changed since the 1920s.
Erica
Rand The Ellis Island Snow Globe
(Duke University Press, 2005)
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Erica Rand The Ellis Island Snow Globe Duke University Press, 2005 ISBN:0-8223-3591-3
Discovering a snow globe as a souvenir available from the Ellis Island gift shop is the trigger for this book's engaging analysis of sexual politics, cultural representations, notions of cultural diversity, history and heritage. Rand mixes biographical narratives with political analysis about histories, power and social representation, to explore the histories of immigration / deportation and the politics of "passing" in the legal and social processes of America in the early 20th century.
Arlene
Raven JUNE WAYNE
(USA: University of Washington Press, 1997, 1998)
Arlene
Raven Crossing Over: Feminism and the Art of Social Concern
(USA: Ann Arbor,Michegan: U.M.I., 1988)
Claire
Raymond Women Photographers and Feminist Aesthetics
(London: Routledge, 2017)
Tey Diana
Rebolledo The Chronicles of Panchita Villa and other guerrilleras : essays on Chicana/Latina literature and criticism
(Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press, 2005)
Helena
Reckitt. Survey: Peggy Phelan ed
Art and Feminism
(London: Phaidon, 2001)
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Helen Reckitt (ed) Peggy Phelan (Survey) Art and Feminism Phaidon, 2001 0-7148-3529-3
This book is part of a series by Phaidon on themes and movements in contemporary art. The lavishly illustrated format includes a long introductory survey-type essay, accompanied by extracts from other writers which are designed to contextualise the assembled material in terms of feminist theory. Presenting itself as the first fully illustrated and comprehensive survey of art and feminism from the 1960s to the present (a highly dubious claim given the 1994 anthology by Norma Broude and Mary Garrard The Power of Feminist Art and many other catalogues of feminist art practices!) the book presents over 300 colour plates from 150 artists, including 'rarely published installation shots' and 'previously unpublished artists' statements' (Press Release). On closer examination, the previously unpublished material proves to be one statement by Coco Fusco - and possibly, a little-known pamphlet by Su Richardson, Monica Ross and Kate Walker.
Peggy Phelan's text, albeit enjoyable to read and skillfully crafted with numerous insights, concentrates on only the American version of feminist strategies, key works and models, with occasional nods towards Britain as 'the well-rehearsed plot' of the history and the rise of the women's art movement. This emphasis is further reinforced in the unannounced selection of works: 85 of the artists live/work in the US, 50 in Europe (22 of whom are in the UK) with a further 10 who live/work in Canada, South America, Japan and Australia. While the "image" of the woman artist and the role of re-presentational and aesthetic strategies is discussed in relation to the problems of essentialism, multi-cultural politics (in the US), queer theory and shifts in feminist art history and theory, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Sophie Calle, Helen Chadwick, Cecile Edefalk, Jenny Saville and Denise Stoklos are the only artists living outside the US whose work is briefly discussed outside the "familiar"account of American feminism.
Claudia
Reiche Digitaler Feminismus
(Bremen : Thealit Frauen.Kultur.Labor , 2006)
Marta
Reichenberger ed
Wer hat Angst vor Josephine Beuys
(Cologne: Rahmenbedingungen zur Arbeit von Kunstlerinnen, 1995)
Melissa
Rerat L'art vidéo au féminin: Emmanuelle Antille, Elodie Pong, Pipilotti Rist
(Lausanne : Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, 2014)
Susan R.
Ressler ed
Women Artists of the American West
(Jefferson North Carolina & London, McFarland, 2003)
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Susan R. Ressler (ed.) Women Artists of the American West
Jefferson, North Carolina & London, McFarland, 2003 ISBN: 0-7864-1054-X
This book is presented in two parts, a diverse anthology of 15 essays, and an alphabetical directory of 150 women artists, from the nineteenth and twentieth century, who live or once lived west of the Mississippi River. As a resource book on women artists it will prove invaluable. The essays tend to focus on profiling the work and lives of the individuals and the communities they discuss but the range included is significant: from lesbian photography to the Pueblo Indian arts and crafts movement; from Asian American Women Artists to Quiltmaking; 100 years of Californian photography to Laura Gilpin and American landscape photography. Terri Cohn discusses contemporary art projects in public spaces; while Tiska Blankenship focuses on the relationship between Agnes Pelton and Florence Miller Pierce (1938-1945) and Betty LaDuke provides an autobiography.
Other contributors: Dorothy R. Zopf; Kate M. O'Neill; Susan R. Ressler; Margaret D. Jacobs, Susan Peterson; Tee A. Corinne; Gail E. Tremblay; Peter E. Palmquist; Martha A.Sandweiss; Joan M. Jensen; Corinne Whitaker and Phoebe Farris.
Lucy
Reynolds Women Artists, Feminism and the Moving Image: Contexts and Practices
(Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019)
Shelley
Rice Inverted Odysseys: Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, Cindy Sherman
(MIT press, 1999)
B. Ruby
Rich Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement
(Duke University Press, 1998)
Nelly
Richard Masculine/Feminine: Practices of Difference
(Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press,trans. Silvia R. Tandeciarz and Alice A Neilson., 2004)
Dorothee
Richter ed
Symposium: Dialogue und Debatten: ein internationales Symposium zu feministischen position in der zeitgenossichen kunst: an international symposium on feminist positions in contemporary visual arts
(English and German text, Nurnberg: Verlag fuer Moderne Kunst. Symposium organised in conjunction with die Hoge, Bassum, 2000)
Heidi
Richter and Adelheid Sievert-Staudte ed
Eine Tulpe ist eine Tulpe ist eine Tulpe : Frauen, Kunst und neue Medien
(Königstein/Taunus : Helmer , 1998)
Liz
Rideal and Kathleen Soriano Madam & Eve: Women Portraying Women
(Lawrence King, 2018)
Faith
Ringgold we flew over the bridge: the memoirs of Faith Ringgold
(Durham: Duke University Press, 2005)
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Faith Ringgold we flew over the bridge: the memoirs of Faith Ringgold (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005) ISBN: 0-8223-3564-6
This is a frank, and sometimes lyrical, account of Faith Ringgold's life in her own words, focusing on her education, activism, the development of her work and her life as an artist, mother and teacher. She discusses her strategies for moving ahead as an ambitious young artist, making contacts with artists, gallery directors and curators and how she sought recognition for herself and others from the 1960s to 1990s in campaigns, protests and self-organised initiatives. She remarks on her own ambivalence towards the emerging (white) feminist art movement as well as the hostility to feminism from sections of the black community. Her activism, cultural politics and teaching have been a feminist re-negotiation of simultaneously anti-sexist and anti-racist positions as a black woman artist in America. Her transition as an artist producing figurative paintings then soft sculptures (drawing on African masks) to performance and story quilts is mapped and illustrated in this book. The book was edited by Moira Roth and first published by Bulfinch Press in 1995. This reprint of the original edition does not update the book and add in more reflections or work from the intervening 10 years but it remains an engaging autobiography of an important artist as well as a revealing slice of oral history.
Faith
Ringgold We flew over the Bridge: The Memoirs of Faith Ringgold
(USA: Little Brown, 1995)
Faith
Ringgold, with essays by Eleanor Flomenhaft,Lowery S.Sims,Thalia Gouma-Peterson & Moira Roth Odyssey of Faith : Faith Ringgold: A 25 Year Survey
(Fine Arts Museum of Long Island April-June, 1990)
Hilary
Robinson ed
Feminism Art Theory: An Anthology 1968 - 2014, 2nd Edition
(Wiley, 2015)
Hilary
Robinson Reading Art, Reading Irigaray: The Politics of Art by Women
(New York/London: I.B. Tauris, 2006)
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Hilary Robinson Reading Art, Reading Irigaray The Politics of Art by Women New York /London: I.B. Tauris, 2006 ISBN: 978-1-86064-953-0
This original and distinctive book outlines the contribution that Irigaray's analyses, structures and strategies can make to rethinking a feminist cultural criticism of contemporary women's art practices. Tropes and strategies from Irigaray's writing are redeployed as potential new frames for reading and understanding a relationship between the properties of physical matter and a sexualised subjective identity. Case studies of individual women artists are built into this analysis, divided as chapters into topics around mimesis; the critique of phallocentrism; morphology; gesture; divine beauty; and mother-daughter genealogies. Artists discussed include: Bridget Riley, Rachel Whiteread, Cynthia Mailman, Yolanda Lopez, Frances Hegarty, Hannah Wilke and Louise Bourgeois.
Alex Martinis
Roe To Become Two: Propositions for Feminist Collective Practice
(Archive Books in partnership with ar/ge kunst; Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory; If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution; and The Showroom, 2018)
Brigitte
Rollet and Delphine Naudier eds
Genre et légitimité culturelle: quelle reconnaissance pour les femmes ?
(Paris : L'Harmattan, 2007)
Maria Laura
Rosa Legados de libertad
(Buenos Aires : Biblos, cop., 2014)
Beatrice
Roschanzamir ed
Künstlerinnen in Europa : spartenübergreifend - grenzenlos ; Dokumentation ; [zum Symposion "Künstlerinnen in Europa - Spartenübergreifend - Grenzenlos", Berlin 1999]
(GEDOK, 2000)
Ulrike
Rosenbach Schule fur Kreativen Feminismus: Beispiel einer autonomen kulturarbeit
(Cologne: Schule fur Kreativen Feminismus, 1980)
Martha
Rosler Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Writings, 1975-2001
(Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2004)
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Martha Rosler Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Writings, 1975-2001
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2004. A co-publication with
International Center of Photography and October books ISBN: 0-262-18231-9
Bringing together many key essays/lectures produced since 1979, this book will be an invaluable resource for artists and photographers alike for its cogent and challenging analyses of art practices, documentary photography and art world vs. life world politics. As she writes in the introduction: 'collective transformation requires communication' and this has been central to Rosler's strategies as an artist, intellectual, activist and lecturer. The title aptly summaries her approach in essays like 'Theses on Defunding' or 'In, Around and Afterthoughts (on Documentary Photography)'.
Martha
Rosler Martha Rosler: Positions in the Life World
(Massachussetts/MIT press, Birmingham/Ikon Gallery, Vienna/Generali Foundation, 1998)
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Martha Rosler Martha Rosler: Positions in the Life World Massachusetts MIT press/ Ikon Gallery, Birmingham/Generali Foundation, Vienna,1998. ISBN 0-262-04174-X
This book offers the most comprehensive view of Rosler's work, accompanied by an interview with Benjamin Buchloh, and stimulating essays by Alexander Alberro, Silvia Eiblmayr, Annette Michelson, Jodi Hauptman and Catherine de Zegher. Its publication accompanies the international touring exhibition of Rosler's work, culminating in the USA in 2000.
Monica
Ross Valentine
(London: Milch, 2001)
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Monica Ross Valentine London: Milch, 2001. ISBN 1 901832 10 4
Part inventory, part dictionary of quotations, this inventive book, with 18 short discreet chapters, interweaves a tale of responses to Raphael's Sistine Madonna (Sistina) with Freud's account of "Dora" (Ida Bauer); women's fascination with images of women with artists' representation of idealised leadership in the Socialist Realism of Soviet Russia. It is a Valentine, a love poem proclaiming desire, in the sense that it attempts to offer a new structure for that desire, through running together and juxtaposing many sources: Walter Benjamin, Lewis Caroll, Magritte, emails and telephone call comments from friends and colleagues. The artist's fascination is mirrored by that of other commentators, psychoanalysts and art historians. The origin of the work of art, the Sistina's impact seemingly undimished by popular reproduction, is mixed with its history in the Soviet Bloc, located in a Dresden collection. While the book is a new work, contained within it, is also another tale, Monica Ross's own fascination and reproduction of motifs from the Sistina in performance and photography, exploring desire, the reproduction of femininity and the question of identification mechanisms.
Eva
Rossetti, Valentina Grande The Women who changed art forever: Feminist art - the Graphic novel
(Lawrence King, 2021)
Moira
Roth Difference Indifference : essays, interviews & performances
(G & B Arts International, June, 1998)
Moira
Roth The Amazing Decade:Women & Performance Art in America,1970-1980
(Los Angeles: Astro Artz, 1983)
Moira
Roth Rachel Rosenthal
(USA: John Hopkins University, 1998)
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Moira Roth (ed) Rachel Rosenthal ( PAJ Books ,Art + Performance: John Hopkins University Press, 1997) ISBN 0-8018-5629-9
The introductory essay to this collection of material by and about the performance artist Rachel Rosenthal offers an artistic autobiography. Roth traces events in Rachel Rosenthal's life from her childhood to the present day and draws out their significance for recurrent themes in her performances. She outlines Rosenthal's work in Instant Theatre, the importance of Antonin Artaud to her devlepoment and the unusual letters with Barbara T.Smith which prompted a change in direction for Rosenthal in 1975/6. The book also includes transcripts of interviews, a cross-section of reviews of performances by a wide rang eof authors, extracts from the artist's writings and the script for Rachel's Brain.
Alison
Rowley Helen Frankenthaler: Painting History, Writing Painting
(London: IB Tauris, 2007)
S.
Rubin Suleiman 'Feminism and Postmodernism: A Question of Politics' in C.Jencks A Postmodern Reader
(London: Academy Editions, 1991)
Natalie
Rudd Breaking the Mould: Sculpture by Women Since 1945
(Hayward Gallery publishing, 2020)
Judith
Rugg and Michele Sedgwick eds
Issues in Curating Contemporary
Art and Performance
(Bristol: Intellect Books, 2007)
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Judith Rugg and Michele Sedgwick (eds.) Issues in Curating Contemporary
Art and Performance Bristol: Intellect, 2007 ISBN: 978-1-84150-162-8
The twelve essays in this book arose from a series of seminars organised by the University College for Creative Arts on the notion of curation as intervention and critical practice. Each contributor offers examples from their own practice while attempting to reflect on more general issues and concerns in curating. While the 'curator's voice' is discussed as a topic by several curators, Liz Wells and Sophia Phoca, generally the essays read as anecdotes and notes about intentions and justifications for curatorial decisions in contrast to the reception of the exhibitions produced. Cate Elwes alone discusses feminist exhibitions but only from her own experiences as an artist-becoming-a- curator (as part of the collective who organised the 1980 ICA shows) to promote her practice alongside that of other women artists. The unevenness of the approaches touch on the problematics of working as a curator funded by the public sector in the UK and the changing goverment imperatives alongside the professionalisation and com-mercialisation of this culture in contrast to that of curators of international biennales, whose work seems to inspire a mixture of awe and jealousy amongst the boys because of its relative absence in this country.
Teresa
Sauret Historia de Arte y Mujeres
(Universidad de Malaga, 1996)
Meike
Schalk, Therese Kristiansson, Ramia Maze eds
Feminist Futures of Spatial Practices: Materialisms, Activisms, Dialogues, Pedagogies, Projections (English text)
(Art Architecture Design Research, 2017)
Miriam
Schapiro Anonymous was a Woman: A Documentation of the Women's Art Festival : A Collection of Letters to Young Women Artists
(Valencia: California Institute of the Arts, 1974)
A.
Schenk Waaron zijn er geen beroemde vrouwelijke kunstenaars geweest?
(Amsterdam: Stichting Vrouwen in de Beeldende Kunst, 1978)
Brenda
Schmahmann ed
Iconic works of art by feminists and gender activists : mistress-pieces
(London: Routledge, 2021)
Margit
Schmidt ; Sabine Schütz eds
Selbstlaut : autobiographische Aspekte in der Kunst von Frauen Margit Schmidt ; Sabine Schütz
(Köln : Richter , 1993)
Carolee
Schneemann Imaging Her Erotics: Essays, Interviews, Projects
(London & Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2001)
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Carolee Schneemann Imaging Her Erotics:Essays, Interviews, Projects (London & Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT, 2001) ISBN: 0-262-19459-7
Mapping four decades of work, this book presents a wide range of material from Carolee Schneemann's oeuvre dispersed across journals, magazines, artist's exhibition notes for projects, performance texts and lectures.
Like the other books produced by MIT on Adrian Piper and on Mary Kelly, this book functions both as a monograph and an anthology on the work of one artist. Interviews with Linda Montano, Aviva Rahmani, Carl Heyward, Willima Peterson, are Review reproduced alongside writing by Jay Murphy, Robert Riley and David Levi-Strauss, Eleanor Heartney, ND (Austin, Texas), Thomas McEvilley and Robert C. Morgan.
Kristine Stiles's introductory essay offers a new view of Schneemann's work, positioning the role of her painting in relation to her performance work and her installations.
The documentation of different projects and performances is extensive and the text by the artist as well as the other writers offers new insights into works like Sexual Parameters, Fuses, Eye Body, Vesper's Pool, Vulva's Morphia and Meat Joy to reveal the intelligence, philosophy and approach of this unique and highly significant artist.
Mary
Schoeser Rozanne Hawksley: Offerings
(Lund Humphries and Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales, 2009)
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Mary Schoeser Rozanne Hawksley: Offerings
USA: Lund Humphries and Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales,2009 ISBN: 978-1-84822-026-3
Offering a chronological picture of the life and art of Rozanne Hawksley, each chapter in this book offers insights into either a different time period or group of works. The front cover reproduces a fragment of her most well-known work Pale Armistice, made from a circle of white leather gloves and shown in the exhibition The Subversive Stitch (1988) before being purchased for the Imperial War Museum in London. The reproductions document Hawksley's work in objects/sculptures and installations often using fabric, embroidery or textiles and examining, in more recent times, her family histories, memento mori and human suffering.
Daphne
Scholinski The Last Time I Wore A Dress
(UK:Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1998)
Naomi
Schor Bad Objects
(USA: Duke University Press, 1995)
Mira
Schor Wet: On Painting, Feminism and Art Culture
(USA: Duke University Press, 1997)
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Mira Schor Wet, On Painting, Feminism and Art Culture USA: Durham, Duke University Press,1996. ISBN 0 8223 1915 2
This anthology of the New York critic artist and editor of M/E/A/N/I/N/G/S is a fascinating collection of her best writings. It includes her essay on Ida Applebroog,'Medusa Redux', which I have long admired for its arguments about postmodern possibilities in painting which retain a historical and critical edge. Reading her work together puts these arguments into context as they focus on her analyses of masculinity and power; teaching practice and an attempt to extend the discussion of what painting is, does and what it can signify away from the narrow definitions of modernism which have for several decades dominated Anglo-American teaching practice.
Her essay 'From Liberation to Lack' 'Patrilineage' and her proposals for new approaches to teaching painting provide valuable food for thought. Her description of the power politics between teacher and student are pertinent to many women's experience of art school, including my own nearly a decade after hers. Her questioning of the relationships between authority and learning and the approaches within feminist art theory will continue to provide salutory warnings and a necessary problematisation of the field for those wishing to argue for a contemporary feminist art practice in which painting plays some role amongst other media.
Mira
Schor A Decade of Negative Thinking: Essays on Art, Politics, and Daily Life
(USA: Duke University Press, 2009)
Nicole
Schröder/Herwig Friedl eds
Grenz-Gänge : Studien zu Gender und Raum
(Tübingen ; Basel : Francke , 2006)
Marco
Scotini, Raffaella Perna ed
The Unexpected Subject: 1978 Art and Feminism in Italy
(Milan : Flash Art, 2019)
Jill
Scott Coded Characters: Media Art by Jill Scott
(Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2003)
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Jill Scott Coded Characters: Media Art by Jill Scott
Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2003
Text in English and German.
Includes DVD.
ISBN 3-7757-1272-0
This major and beautifully produced catalogue provides an overview of 28 years of Jill Scott's art practice in new media, performance and installation tracing her movements from the Bay Area, San Francisco to Australia and then to the UK, Germany and Switzerland. Divided roughly into decades and documenting her early performance works from 1975 to her use of video installations using surveillance/interactivity in the 1980s and her move to fully interactive computerised multi-media installations in the 1990s, the artist's own commentaries are Review reproduced alongside new interviews and articles. Jill Scott is a pioneer in many techniques as well as a committed feminist who has produced some impressive interactive multi-media installations on women's historical role and changing lives in the twentieth century e.g. Machine Dreams (1991); Frontiers of Utopia (1995); Immortal Duality(1997); Beyond Heirarchy?(2000)
Introduction by Roy Ascott; Interview by Robert Atkins; Essays by Anne Marsh; Yvonne Spielmann and Robert Atkins.
Donna
Seaman Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists
(Bloomsbury publishing, 2017)
Heidemarie
Seblatnig Einfach den Gefahren ins Auge Sehen: Kunstlerinnen im Gesprach
(Wien,Koln,Graz : Bohlau Verlag, 1988)
Geeti
Sen Feminine fables : imaging the Indian woman in painting, photography,and cinema
(Ahmedabad : Mapin Publishing, 2002)
Marta
Seravelli Arte e Femminismo en Roma Negli Anni Settanta
(Rome: Biblink Inc, 2013)
Mindy
Seu ed
Cyberfeminism Index, book
(Inventory press, 2022)
Nizan
Shaked The synthetic proposition: Conceptualism as political art
(Manchester University Press, 2017)
Jo
Shaw and Ben Fletcher-Watson eds
The Art of Being Dangerous: Exploring Women and Danger through Creative Expression
(Leuven University Press, 2021)
Elaine
Shemilt, Laura Leuzzi, Stephen Partridge eds
Ewva: European Women's Video Art in the 70s And 80s
(John Libbey and Co, )
Elizabeth
Shepherd Secrets,Dialogues, Revelations: The Art of Betye and Alison Saar
(University of Washington Press, 1994)
Margrit
Shildrick and Roxanne Mykitiuk eds
Ethics of the Body: Postconventional Challenges
(MIT press, 2005)
Siobhan
Shilton Transcultural encounters: Visualising France and the Maghreb in contemporary art
(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013)
Andrea
Sick and Claudia Reiche eds
Technics of Cyber < > Feminism
(Bremen: Thealit Frauen. Kultur.Labor, 2002)
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Claudia Reiche, Andrea Sick (eds.) Technics of Cyber < > Feminism <mode=message> Bremen:Thealit Frauen.Kultur.Labor
2002. ISBN: 3-930924-03-X
This is the second in a series of three books examining issues related to cyberfeminism and arises from a symposium (lab) organised in Bremen. Reiche's introduction and the opening discussion of a questionnaire to the participants and contributors to this event point to the multiplicity of definitions currently in circulation about cyberfeminism. Its proliferation as a term embracing Virtual Reality, philosophical speculation on anti-humanism and the post-human, Viruses, Websites and uses of the internet, Hacking, gender-bending, Media theory, cyber-feminist porn films and cyborgology is well demonstrated by this volume. As Helen von Oldenburg outlines in the book, in order to bring something into existence one should first present them as images; then create observations; organise events; declare them as science and wrap them up in numbers (p.189). The debates raised in this volume do just this. Nevertheless, they continue to raise the question of feminism while succeeding in bringing together people from across the globe to discuss these issues.
Sid
Sid Sachs and Kalliopi Minioudaki eds
Seductive subversion : women pop artists, 1958-1968
(University of the Arts ; Abbeville Publishers, 2010)
Ulrike
Sieglohr Focus on the Maternal: Female Subjectivity and Images of Motherhood
(Vol.4 Nexus. London: Scarlet Press, 1998)
Erin
Silver Taking place: Building histories of queer and feminist art in North America
(Manchester University Press, 2023)
Gayatri
Sinha ed
Expressions & Evocations: Contemporary Women Artists of India
(India: Marg Publications, 1997)
More Review reproduced from Volume 1, n.paradoxa, Jan 1998. Katy Deepwell 'Short Reviews of New Publications' - This book is lavishly illustrated and a beautifully produced insight into the work of ten leading women artists in India over the past 50 years. Although it stands in its own right as a volume, it also functions as a catalogue to a recent exhibition and is a celebratory volume to mark the first 50 years of Marg Publishing. Each essay approaches its subject in a different and interesting way and attempting to move beyond a descriptive or narrative account of the artist's life and work to highlight the broader context of their work and its concerns.
Contents : The following writers are included: each discussing one woman artist:- Nilima Sheikh on 'Amrita Sher-Gil' ; Kashav Malik on 'Devayani Krishna' ; Anahite Contractor on 'Pilloo Pockhanawala'; Geeta Kapur on 'Nasreen Mohamedi'; Yashodhara Dalmia 'Arpita Singh' ; Rupika Chala 'Anjolie Ele Menon'; Pranabranjan Ray 'Madhvi Parekh' ; Geeti Sen 'Anupam Sud'; Mala Marwah 'Nilima Sheikh' ; Uma Nair 'Gogi Saroj Pal'; Kamala Kapoor 'Nalini Malani' ; Amit Mukhopadhyay 'Latika Katt' ; Chaitanya Sambrani 'Navjot' ; Gayatri Sinha on 'Arpana Caur'.
Julia
Skelly Radical Decadence: Excess in Contemporary Feminist Textiles and Craft
(Bloomsbury, 2017)
Jacqueline
Skiles The Women Artists Movement
(Pittsburgh: PA,Know,Inc, 1972)
Jacqueline
Skiles and Janet McDevitt ed
A Documentary Herstory of Women Artists in Revolution
(New York: Women Artists in Revolution, 1971)
Basia
Sliwinska ed
Feminist Visual Activism and the Body
(Routledge, 2022)
More Contents: Essays:
1 Not White, Not Male and Not New York: Race, Feminism and Artists in Pittsburgh
Hilary Robinson
2 Activist Intension: Mona Hatoum and Morehshin Allahyari’s Disruptive Bodies
Astrid N. Korporaal
3 Activating Agential Collective: Anna Baumgart’s Table Talks—Her-Stories, Solidarity and Feminist Corporeal-Materialism
Basia Sliwinska
4 The Absent Image: Resisting the Erosion of Public Trust in Syrian Activists’ Evidential Visuality
Mario Hamad
5 Bodies, Sovereignties, Futurities: On Adelita Husni-Bey’s Practice
Anastasia Murney
6 Domestic Fronts: Arrangements for Feminist Living, or Survival Is Not a Metaphor
Alexandra Kokoli
7 A Care-Full Re-Membering of Australian Settler Colonial Homemaking Traditions
Sera Waters
8 Folding Chair for the Feminist Resistance: Activating Feral Materiality
Paula Chambers
9 When Theodorah Met Dolly: Gender and Visual Activism in Works by Senzeni Marasela
Brenda Schmahmann
10 Be-Longing: Filipina Women Artists in Israel Negotiating Self, Body and Place
Tal Dekel
11 Women to the Front: Women’s Participation and Visual Activism in Hong Kong’s Protest Movement 2019
Evelyn Kwok
12 !Madres!: Reconfiguring ‘Abducted Motherhood’ in Mónica Mayer’s Personal and Collective Artwork
Karen Cordero Reiman
13 Corpo-Affective Politics of Anxious Breathing: On the Agential Force of Bodies and Affects in Vulnerable Protest
Magdalena Górska
14 The Revolutionist: Gendered Violence, Black Radical Feminism and the Decolonial Creative Revolution
Nomusa Makhubu
15 Fragmented Traces. . . The Tactile Feminist Un-Monuments of Sheila Levrant de Bretteville
Caroline Wallace
Patricia
Smart Les Femmes du Refus Global
(Montreal: Boreal, 1988)
Patricia
Smart Les femmes du Refus global
(Montreal: Boreal, 1988)
Beryl
Smith and Joan Arbeiter, Sally Shearer Swenson eds
Lives and works : Vol.2 / talks with women artists.
(Lanham, Md. ; London : Scarecrow, 1996)
Sidonie
Smith and Julia Watson eds
Interfaces: Women/Autobiography/Image/Performance
(University of Michigan Press, 2002)
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This book was designed as a reader for teaching - albeit an impressive anthology of new writing about women artists - for it concludes with a syllabus outline for a course on 'narrative autobiography' in women's art practice. The introduction and the essays encourage analysis of the problematic category of autobiography as it might be read into and from women's art practice through the equally problematic notions of memory, experience, identity, embodiment and agency. Although they emphasise the contingency of the autobiographical act, the editors raise the thorny question of "narcissism" in criticism of women's self-portraiture and why women artists so frequently chose themselves as subjects of their work. However, the editors hold onto the older notion of a life narrative revealed in women's art practice, principally as a strong point of identification for the student in a liberal arts education with the artist's work, which oddly reinforces the paradigm they wish to move away from by attention to the visuality/textuality of the work of art. The volume ncludes essays on artists Jo Spence and Hannah Wilke by Jo Anna Isaak; on Cindy Sherman and Laura Aguilar by Amelia Jones; on Orlan by Linda S. Kauffman; on Jenny Saville, Faith Ringgold and Janine Antoni by Sidonie Smith; on Louise Bourgeois by Mieke Bal; on Bobby Baker and Blondell Cummings by Lesley Ferris; on Lorna Simpson and Adrian Piper by Jennifer Drake; on Lorie Novak by Marianne Hirsch; on Claude Cahun by Georgina MM Colville; on Elvira Bach and others by Irene Gammel; on Frida Kahlo by Mimi Y. Yang; on Charlotte Salomon by Julia Watson; on Laurie Anderson by Jessica Prinz; on Erika Lopez by Laura Laffrado; on Susan King and Joan Lyons by Renee Riese Hubert/ Judd D Hubert.
Cherry
Smyth Damn Fine Art by New Lesbian Artists
(Cassell, 1996)
Joelynn
Snyder-Ott Women and creativity
(Millbrae, Calif. : Les Femmes Pub., 1978)
Abigail
Solomon-Godeau Photography at the Dock: Essays on Photographic History, Institutions, and Practices
(University of Minnesota Press, 1994)
Joanna
Speeryn-Jones, Melissa Hamnett, Cheryl Robson eds
50 Women Sculptors: 2
(Aurora Metro Books, 2020)
Jo
Spence Putting Myself in the Picture: A Personal and Political Autobiography
(London: Routledge, 1988)
Jo
Spence Cultural Sniping: The Art of Transgression
(London:Routledge, 1995)
Jo
Spence and Joan Solomon What Can a Woman Do with a Camera? Photography for Women
(London: Scarlet Press, 1995)
Catherine
Spencer Beyond the Happening: Performance art and the politics of communication
(Manchester University Press, 2020)
Kristine
Stiles ed
Correspondence Course: An
Epistolary History of Carolee
Schneemann and Her Circle
(Duke University Press, 2011)
Shannon R.
Stratton with Faith Wilding eds
Faith Wilding's Fearful Symmetries
(Bristol: Intellect, 2019)
Ingrid
Straube ed
Kreativ, dekorativ : Reflexionen uber Kunst und Aesthetik
(Köln : Verein Beitr. zur Feministischen Theorie und Praxis , 2000)
M.
Sulter and I.Pollard eds
Passion: Discourses on Black Women's Creativity
(UK: Urban Fox Press,, 1990)
Vivan
Sundaram with G.Kapur, K.G.Sumbramanyan, G.M.Sheikh ed
Amrita Sher-Gil
(Marg Publications, 1972)
Anniina
Suominen & Tiina Pusa eds
Feminism and Queer in Art Education
(Aalto University, 2018)
Megan
Sweeney Mendings
(Duke University Press, 2022)
Trinh
T Minh-ha Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism
(Bloomington, Indianapolis: Indiana University Press,, 1989)
Diana
Taylor and Roselyn Constantino ed
Holy Terrors: Latina American Women Perform
(Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004)
Paula Naanim
Telis Mujer nueva : ritoperformance y femiconciencia
(Argentina: Milena Caserola, 2018)
Joyce
Tenneson Cohen Insights: Self-Portraits by Women
(London: Gordon Fraser, 1979)
Mathilde
ter heijne Any day now
(Kunsthalle Nuremburg and Lentos Museum, Linz, 2010)
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Mathilde ter heijne Any day now Kunsthalle Nuremburg and Lentos Museum, Linz, 2010 Book and CD-Rom ISBN: 9783869841304
This exhibition catalogue documents and brings together the work of this artist, with interviews, to present her working methods, source materials and strategies looking particularly at the contradictions within economic and social history that she explores in her installations. Examples of her approach include research on the Chinese Mosuo matriarchal system for Export Matriarchy (2007); a video installation about interiors and domestic abuse where the politics of representation in Vermeer's leisured women is contrasted with that of his contemporary Geertruyd Roghman who painted working women Fuck Patriarchy! (2004)) and her study of Finnish Ingrian Laments as the basis for her work (Lament, 2010).
Maria
Tippett By a Lady: Celebrating 3 Centuries of Art by Canadian Women
(Canada: Penguin Books, 1992)
Maria Theresa Alario
Tregueros Arte y Feminismo
(Editorial Nerea, 2008)
Suzanne
Treister No Other Symptoms: Time Travelling with Rosalind Brodsky
(London: Black Dog Publishing, 1999)
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Suzanne Treister No Other Symptoms: Time Travelling with Rosalind Brodsky London: Black Dog Publishing, 1999 ISBN 1-901033-66-X
The pleasure of this publication lies in exploring the CD-Rom included with the book, an artwork, developed in Australia and the UK, which has also been exhibited in various forms as a multimedia installation. While the book prompts the viewer to track down all the multiple layers of this work, in its many unforeseen and surprising links, video-clips and virtual spaces and to trace the intriguing story of Treister's fantasy character Rosalind Brodsky. Her scientific experimentation in time travel was developed at the fictional IMATI (the Institute of Milltronics and Advanced Time Interventionality in South London) and is sparked by her encounter with Kristeva. As a consequence of her work she can travel to meet Freud, Klein, Lacan and Jung, while developing her innovative vibrators for a variety of ideological tastes. Bodsky's intervention in history occurs as she participates in the Russian Revolution and returns to Poland in the 1940s trying to trace Treister's real grandmother, Rosalind Blom. The viewer locked into Brodsky's study by a protest outside the institute has no option but to explore the space, browse her diary and personal effects, and operate the time machine to follow Brodsky on her adventures…
Suzanne
Treister and Marek Kohn Suzanne Treister: NATO: The Military Codification System for the Ordering of Everything in the World
(London: Black Dog Publishing, 2008)
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Suzanne Treister and Marek Kohn Suzanne Treister: NATO: The Military Codification System for the Ordering of Everything in the World London: Black Dog Publishing, 2008
ISBN: 9-781-906-155 612
This catalogue or extensive album of watercolours, like a mini-enyclopedia, re-deploys NATO bureaucracy's classification of objects in the world around us, as a chilling reminder of our current subjection to C3I, command-control-communcation-intelligence systems (the term used by Donna Haraway in 'Manifesto for Cyborgs'). Treister's project links NATO's codification system with the supply and demand chain of modern consumerism's fetishism for objects and in doing so highlights the origins of many objects as military inventions for a wholly different purpose. However, Treister's work also mimics museum's strategies of collection and display - the built-in obsolence of every "new" design - as each object represented provides sharp historical resonances into different militarised ways of being, dressing, eating, sheltering and caring for or destroying ways of life in the war zones of twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Meredith
Tromble ed
The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson. Secret Agents, Private 1
(University of California Press,Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, 2005)
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Meredith Tromble (ed) The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson
Secret Agents, Private 1 University of California Press,Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, 2005 book and DVD ISBN: 0-520-23971-7
Produced to accompany the exhibition Hershmanlandia in Washington, this book documents 35 years of the artist's practice, largely in her own words. This is accompanied by a large number of different essays, some newly commissioned, others from catalogues or extended reviews and articles on her work. More are included along with video clips and reproductions on the accompanying DVD. Art critic, Pierre Restany first described her work in terms of 'Hershmanlandia' to convey her strategy of 'perpetual and infinite personality situations and frag-mentations': her creation of Roberta Breitmore in numerous works and performances is probably her most well-known example. Her analyses of identity have been designed to provoke reflection on culture and cultural-economic processes, and a sharp critique of the grounding of subjectivity. Hershman's work has been simultaneously innovative in the technologies she has used from interactive techniques to touch-screen video production, robotic dolls and computer-generated digital interfaces, as in her film, Conceiving Ada.
See also: Moira Roth's interview with Lynn Hershman in Vol.5 of n.paradoxa pp.17-21.
Zing
Tsjeng Forgotten Women: The Artists
(Cassell, 2018)
Marcia
Tucker, Liza Lou (Editor) ed
A Short Life of Trouble: Forty Years in the New York Art World
(University of California Press, 2010)
Jasmine
Tumbas "I am Jugoslovenka!": Feminist performance politics during and after Yugoslav Socialism
(Manchester University Press, 2022)
Ada
Udechukwu Uli: Different Hands: Different Times
(Nigeria: Ada Udechukwu, 1992)
Suzanne
Van Hagen Art'Fab;l'art, la femme, l'Europe
(Paris: Terrail\(exhibition, Saint Tropez), 2006)
Kurt
Vanbelleghem ed
Orla Barry: Bitter Peacock
(Gent: Imschoot, 1997)
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Kurt Vanbelleghem (ed) Orla Barry: Bitter Peacock
Gent: Imschoot,1997. ISBN 90-729191-86-2
'It seems that sometimes the space between a full stop
and the next sentence is not enough
The Bitter Peacock spreads her tail'
This quote from the book jacket is but a small taster of the mode of reflection employed by Orla Barry in this fascinating book. It's an insight into her thought practice; her use of word association, language plays; edited and juxtaposed fragments of sense and nonsense; a blend of verbal prose poetry about love, relationships, passions, alcohol and the attempt to articulate how the world makes sense. The book also contains the first draft of A Tear for A Glass of Water.
Jorunn
Veiteberg Hold stenhårdt fast på greia di. Kunst og feminisme i Norge 1968-1989 [Hold tight on to your thing. Art and feminism in Norway 1968-1989]
(Kunsthall Oslo, 2019)
Susana
Velasquez and Esther Moncarz, Gilda Mancuso Mujer y expresion plastica: testimonios
(Argentina, Buenos Aires: Centro de Estudios de la Mujer, 1984)
Francesco
Ventrella, Giovanna Zapperi Feminism and Art in Postwar Italy: The Legacy of Carla Lonzi
(Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019)
Lea
Vergine L'Arte Ritrovata
(Milan,Rizzoli, 1982)
VietNamNetBridge Women Paint and Painting on Women
(Hanoi: Vietnam Fine Arts Museum, 2007)
Anna
Voigt New Visions,New Perspectives: Voices of Contemporary Australian Women Artists
(Australia: Craftsman House, 1996)
More Review reproduced from Volume 1, n.paradoxa, Jan 1998. Katy Deepwell 'Short Reviews of New Publications' - This volume was produced by asking the same questions about the life experiences, creative processes, and artistic struggles and philosophical approaches of 34 Australian women artists. What emerges as a result of the questionnaire is the variety of different approaches these women have with regard to their chosen media, in what forms their worldviews, and their very different aesthetic, political and social concerns. The book's author introduces these approaches through an appeal to hear women's voices and dedicates the volume to 'the feminine principle in Nature as expressed in Art'. While the introduction highlights the author/editor's search for explanation and 'origins' to overcome sexism and the suppression of women's culture through a return to considering the Great Mother Creatrix, the work of women artists featured in the book, which is lavishly illustrated, always manages to exceed and question this framework.
The artists / respondents whose work and views are featured include: Davida Allen, Annette Bezor, Marion Borgelt, Joan Brassil, Kate Briscoe, Heather Ellyard, Merilyn Fairskye, Jutta Feddersen, Fiona Foley, Gabriela Frutos, Elizabeth Gower, Pat Hoffie, Inga Hunter, Anne Judell, Hanna Kay, Lindy Lee, Barbara Licha, anne MacDonald, Lucille Martin, Mandy Martin, Matingali Bridget Matjital, Mirlkitjungu Millie Skeen, Lyndall Milani, Gloria Temarre Petyarre, Lyn Plummer, Mona Ryder, Anneke Silver, Judi Singleton, Wendy Stavrianos, Lezlie Tilley, Aida Tomescu, Vicki Varvaressos, Liz Williams.
Paul
Von Blum Other visions, other voices : women political artists in greater Los Angeles
(Lanham, MD ; London : University Press of America, 1994)
Zora
von Burden Women of the Underground: Art, Cultural Innovators Speak for Themselves
(Manic D Press, 2013)
Susanne
von Falkenhausen et al ed
Medien der Kunst : Geschlecht, Metapher, Code : Beitrage der 7. Kunsthistorikerinnen-Tagung in Berlin 2002: Kunsthistorikerinnentagung
((7th : 2002 : Berlin, Germany) (Marburg : Jonas, 2004), 2002, 2004)
Irene
von Hardenberg (Photos: Reto Guntli) Künstlerinnen : Atelierbesuche in Berlin, Moskau, New York
(Hildesheim : Gerstenberg , 2005)
Khadija
von Zinnenburg-Carroll Botanical Drift: Protagonists of the Invasive Herbarium
(Sternberg, MIT, 2017)
Eva Kit
Wah Man, Jiehua Wen eds
Cross-cultural reflections on Chinese aesthetics, gender, embodiment and learning
(Singapore : Springer, 2020)
Kara
Walker eds Ian Berry,Darby English, Vivian Patterson, Mar
Narratives of a Negress
(Cambridge: Massachusetts: MIT press, 2003)
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Kara Walker Narratives of a Negress
Edited by Ian Berry, Darby English, Vivian Patterson, Mark Reinhardt.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT press, 2003. ISBN: 0-262-02540-X
This catalogue/book was published for the exhibition at the Frances Young Tang Gallery Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College and Williams College Museum of Art, USA. Shots of the exhibition, pages from artist's books by Kara Walker (including Freedom: A Fable and Brown Follies) are interleaved through-out the book with photographs of a series of short texts, typed in 2001 on index cards by the artist. These and the essays consider the controversial reception of Kara Walker's playing with stereotypes of the Negress and its eighteenth/nineteenth century style presentation in terms of both images and silhouettes which she redeploys.
Essays by Darby English, Mark Reinhardt, Anne M.Wagner and Michele Wallace.
Brian
Wallis ed
If You Lived Here: The City in Art,Theory and Social Activism: A Project by Martha Rosler
(Seattle: Bay Press, 1991)
Jayne
Wark Radical Gestures: Feminism and Performance Art in North America
(Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006)
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Jayne Wark Radical Gestures: Feminism and Performance Art in North America
Montreal, Canada: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006 ISBN: 0-7335-3066-5
This book brings together a pointed analysis linking Canadian and US-based women artists whilst outlining the different trajectories and tendencies in women's performances. In so doing Wark provides a subtle and interesting reassessment, particularly of repres-entations of the body and queer politics. In the section on parody, roles and transformation, for example, Martha Wilson's strategies are followed by a discussion of The Clichettes and Tanya Mars; elsewhere Kate Craig's video Delicate Issue (1979) is discussed in relation to Martha Rosler's Vital Statistics of a Citizen: Simply Obtained (1977) and Eleanor Antin's work is discussed in relationship to Joyce Wieland. The book tackles the debates around essentialism in women's performance art in the late 1970s and 1980s alongside the value given within feminism (generally) to recognition of women's experience in auto-biographical, narrative and documentary works as a way to challenge Modernist aesthetics and present not anindividual voice but the position of a sexed subject.
Rachel
Warriner Pain and Politics in Postwar Feminist Art:
Activism in the Work of Nancy Spero
(Bloomsbury publishing, 2022)
Lois
Weaver ed
Are We There Yet? Live Art Development Agency Study Room Guide on Live Art and Feminism
(Live Art Development Agency, 2015)
Courtney Lee
Weida Artistic ambivalence in clay : portraits of pottery, ceramics and gender
(Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2011)
Gisela
Weimann Reflexionen/Reflections
(Weimar: VDG, Edition Eselsweg,Text in German and English., 2002)
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Gisela Weimann Reflexionen/Reflections Weimar:VDG, Edition Eselsweg, 2002. Text in German and English. ISBN: 3-89739-302-6
Gisela Weimann's book is a catalogue raisonne of 30 years work, but it is also about her ongoing collaborations with art historians, art critics and musicologists in the realisation of her feminist projects and a catalogue for her latest project Life in the Mirror and its conference 'Art History in Dialogue'. The mirror, in fragments, set against architecture or nature and with photography or drawing is an essential elements in this artist's oeuvre. Several installation works redeploy the rear view mirrors of Trabant cars. Each major work is accompanied by a description from the artist, extracts from her diary and a critical essay about the production or reception of the work (around 28 short essays). The book also includes an interesting interview with Moira Roth.
Sasha Su-Ling
Welland Experimental Beijing : gender and globalization in Chinese contemporary art
(Durham: Duke University Press, 2018)
Liz
Wells ed
Viewfindings: Women Photographers:'Landscape' and Environment
(W.England: AvailableLight, 1994)
More This article was first published by Katy Deepwell in Women's Art Magazine, April/May 1996. p.29-30 and discusses Parveen Adams The Emptiness of the Image: Psychoanalysis and Sexual Difference (London & New York: Routledge, 1996) ISBN 0-415 04622-X and Liz Wells (editor) Viewfindings: Women Photographers:'Landscape' and Environment (W.England: AvailableLight,1994) ISBN 1-899457-00-3
These two books provide an opportunity to discuss and compare two divergent trends within feminist art criticism : one, the presentation of contemporary women artist's work and the other, the feminist critique of the mechanisms at stake in the representation of gendered representations (not necessarily or exclusively produced by women). What interests me is the contrast represented by these two approaches : Liz Wells foregrounds women artists' actual work, the photographs themselves, emphasising women's political and multicultural diversity ; Parveen Adams offers a singular and consistent feminist critique within a primarily Lacanian psychoanalytic framework, a perspective developed and revised in relation to an encounter with specific artworks. The Emptiness of the Image presents papers written by Parveen Adams since 1987 and offers a very specific feminist critique of psychoanalytic concepts (e.g. hysteria, identification,voyeurism, castration) in order to discuss how psychoanalysis might by applied to analyse individual artworks by both male and female artists, including Francis Bacon, Della Grace, Mary Kelly and Orlan. Liz Wells' Viewfindings is a very different kind of book which presents the work of 13 women photographers to demonstrate the diversity of contemporary approaches to the questions of woman, 'nature'; landscape and enviroment. It is framed by a short, albeit revised and extended, essay offering a social-historical context by Liz Wells entitled 'Reframing Landscape' which was published in a different form by Women's Art Magazine in 1993/4. Although the strength of Liz Wells' book is invested in the visual reproductions in colour of the photographic work and complemented by short statements and one interview with one of the artists, this is not the case in Parveen Adams' book where reproductions are few and far between and confined to black and white. Does the presentation itself indicate two divergent audiences for these books? Strong visual images often attract artists to borrow, read or buy books where the artwork is mainly presented rather than books where verbal analysis is the principal issue and the books 'look' academic. This is not to say that either book falls into the trap of presuming the works 'speak for themselves' nor the opposite where the analysis is so overdetermined as to limit any other form of possible enagagement in the work, but it is to point to a common split reproduced in art publishing where books of art criticism , which are neither catalogues from exhibitions nor monographs, have generally poor reproductions, particularly those with feminist content. Liz Wells' book was made with the assistance of the Arts Council in order to develop the generally high production values, whereas Routledge, Parveen Adams' publisher, rarely publishes colour plates in its art history series, even as it maintains an orthodox stranglehold on publication of certain forms of academic research.
As a feminist strategy for making women's work more visible and to frame it within a coherent and graspable way in a new field of enquiry where little has been published, Liz Well's book is highly effective but I regret that each artist does not receive a more detailed critical analysis even as I recognise the role of the book in distributing women's photography to a wider audience. Women's work needs not just physical visibility but also the assistance of extended critical discussion. While Liz Wells properly seeks to problematise 'landscape' as a category, I wanted to read more in-depth analysis of how particular women photographer's had in the late 20th Century defined their subjects' relationship to property, territory, entrepreneurship, class, racism, Imperialism, and patriarchy (like Ingrid Pollard's Pastoral Interlude or Stevie Bezencenet Right of Passage or Roshini Kempadoo's Trans-formations portfolio which are reproduced). In a world where women's activities are almost 'automatically' subject to a failure to recognise the positions from which women speak or to give credibility to anything they have to say, the need for commentary becomes all the more important. Contrary to the frequent misapprehension that this detracts from the work, or that critical analysis may destroy the work, in-depth criticism may actually provide a means of access to the project of the artist. Comparisons between artists may also offer a means to demonstrate the strengths and weaknesses of the work itself and this is the very difficulty and tension between representing the necessary diversity of women's art practice in relation to the questions of photography and landscape and framing adequately beyond the categories of 'Margins'; 'Territories'; 'Image, Metaphor, Myth' which Liz Wells offers. Liz Wells is also the editor of Photography: A Critical Introduction (Routledge, 1996 ISBN 0-415-12559-6) : a valuable teaching text to introduce photography's history and theory.
Perhaps these comments about further critical work are also prompted by the contrast with Parveen Adams' work, where a very different strategy is operating. Here an individual artists' work acts as a prompt, a vehicle for elaborate investigations about pyschoanalytic concepts and their adequacy to address fully how identificatory mechanisms within artworks produce meaning. Her enquiries are refreshingly readable amongst work in this field. What is productive here is the way that both the operations of artwork and / or text and the psychoanalytic concepts themselves are subjects of her questioning. For, Parveen Adams has generally avoided what has become an unfortunate tendency in some art historical texts which employ psychoanalysis is that the artwork is discussed only where it fits a pre-existing pyschoanalytic framework without subjecting that framework to any questioning. Parveen Adams has instead opened up how an encounter with a work might prompt reflection of both psychoanalysis and artistic strategies. However, there is one essay where this is not the case, and this concerns the analysis of Catherine Mackinnon's text on pornography in terms of sadism. The possibility of this as a deliberate polemical strategy in political life is dismissed in order to demonstrate the violence inflicted on the reader by the text itself . The comparison of this strategy to those of other pornographic or sadistic writers strikes me as hopelessly inadequate as a means of critiquing the logic of the text and its accurately observed conflation of reality and representation. This is not to say, I support Mackinnon's position but my criticisms of it arise because of the civil legislation which follow from her critique and whether or not these are workable in any state. This is where the more subtle and absorbing sense of possibilities and rereadings offered in the other essays (like chapters on 'Of female bondage' and 'Per (os)cillation') dissolves into a very specific problem for feminists : i.e. how social and political demands for social change can be critiqued by psychoanalytic processes which reflect upon actions and events to reveal and revise psychoanalysis itself rather than to structure new forms of political or social activity. Is it coincidence that this is the only essay jointly written in the book, and with Mark Cousins? By contrast, her reading of Mary Kelly's Interim is really intriguing and insightful in terms of the ways in Lacan's ideas about discourse (including the discourses of Master, University, Hysteric, and Analyst) are deployed to reflect upon the relation of textuality and interpretation: specifically how the same question can mean and imply different things in different situations. Parveen Adams explores how 'Interim gives us the place of the object petit a at the limit of the image' (p.84) , representations which both interrogate the object of desire and interrupt the movement of desire on the part of the spectator in his/her misrecognition of the object : a relation of transference which refuses the discourse of the Master. The essays on the horror provoked by the operations of the French performance artist Orlan and her analysis of Della Grace's 'The Three Graces' in relationship to a lesbian Phallus are also thought-provoking readings.
While these two books may represent two divergent trends in feminist publishing , they nevertheless are both significant and desirable books to read.
Liao
Wen Nuxing Zhuyi zuowei fangshi/ Feminism as Method
(Beijing, 1996)
Liao
Wen Bu zai you hao nuhai le - Meiguo nuxing zhuyi yishujia fantanhi/ No More Good Girls - Interviews with American Feminist Artists
(Beijing, 2000)
Marianne
Wex Weibliche und Mannliche Korpersprache als Folge Patriarchalisher Macht ver Haltnisse
(Hamburg, 1979)
Laura
White ed
Herstory: Art by Women in the University of Winnipeg Collection
(Canada: ABC Art Books Canada Distribution, 2014)
Faith
Wilding By Our Own Hands: A History of Women Artists Movement in South California
(Los Angeles, 1977)
Martha
Wilson Martha Wilson Sourcebook: 40 years of reconsidering performance, feminism, alternative spaces
(Independent Curators International, 2011)
More Foreword: Kate Fowle. Introduction by Moira Roth. Text by Martha Wilson.
Siona
Wilson Art labor, sex politics : feminist effects in 1970s British art and performance
(Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press, 2014)
Mara
Witzling Voicing Todays Visions
(London: Women's Press, 1994, 1995)
Terry
Wolverton Insurgent Muse: Life and Art at the Women's Building
(USA: City Lights, 2002)
Women's Art Movement Artists Pages: Original Works by Australian Women Artists
(Adelaide: WAM, 1984)
Catherine
Wood Yvonne Rainer: The Mind is a
Muscle
(Massachusetts and London: MIT
Press, 2007)
Janet
Woolf Feminine Sentences:Essays on Women and Culture
(Polity, 1990)
Kirsten
Work Rasmussen Bibliografie 1976 over Danske Kvindelige Kunstnere
(Copenhagen,Kunstakademiets Bibliotek, 1980)
Sophie
Yadong Hao ed
Of Other Spaces: Where Does Gesture Become Event?
(Sternberg, 2019)
Verdi
Yahooda Principle of Uncertainty
(Cardiff: Howard Gardens Gallery, 1999)
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Verdi Yahooda Principle of Uncertainty
Cardiff: Howard Gardens Gallery, 1999. ISBN 0-9515777-3-5
A juxtaposition, a diptych, a re-alignment of different viewpoints - these are some of the ways Verdi Yahooda plays with the space of the page and photographic viewpoints in this artist's book/exhibition catalogue. The subject is an archaeology of history and memory guided by the questions: what does the photo of a place, a face from the past, an uncovering of the past reveal for the present?
Midori
Yoshimoto Into Performance: Japanese Women Artists in New York
(Rutgers University Press, 2005)
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Midori Yoshimoto Into Performance:Japanese Women Artists in New York
Rutgers University Press, 2005 ISBN: 0-8135-3521-2
This impressive and scholarly book examines the work of Yoko Ono, Yayoi Kusama, Takako Saito, Mieko Shiomi and Shigeko Kubota while they were working in New York. However, it links their experiences in Japan with those in New York and examines the critical reception of their work in both contexts. Each artist's multi- and inter-disciplinary involvement in Fluxus, Happenings, New Dance, New Music, pop art, minimalism and performance is tracked and discussed in detail as part of their engagement with the New York art scene and developing careers as artists.
Elvan
Zabunyan, Valerie Mavridorakis, David Perreau Martha Rosler sur|sous le pavé (exhibition catalogue)
(Universite de Rennes, 2006)
Elvan
Zaburiyan, Marie Joseph Bertini, Francoise Gange Keep this Sex Out of My Sight: The Undisplayable of Female Sex as Revealed by Women
(Dis Voir, 2002)
Daniella
Zalcman and Sara Ickow eds
What we see: Women and nonbinary perspectives through the Lens
(White Lion Publishing / Women Photograph, 2023)
Lorena
Zamora Betancourt El imaginario femenino en el arte: Monica Mayer, Rowena Morales y Carla Rippey
(Mexico: Conesjo Nacional para la cultura y les artes, 2007)
Marta
Zarzycka and Bettina Papenburg Carnal Aesthetics: Transgressive Imagery and Feminist Politics
(London: IB Tauris, 2012)
Marta
Zarzycka and Bettina Papenburg eds
Carnal Aesthetics: Trangressive Imagery and Feminist Politics
(London: IB Tauris, 2011)
Azkuna
Zentroa Perspectivas Feministas en las Producciones Artísticas y las Teorías del Arte (2013-2018)
(CASTELLANO, 2019)
Angela
Ziesche Das Schwere und das Liechte : Kunstlerinnen des 20 Jahrhunderts, Skulpturen, Objekte,Installationen
(Koln: Dumont, 1995)
Vivian
Ziherl ed
LIP Anthology: An Australian Feminist Art Journal, 1976-1984
(Australia: Macmillan Art Publ. and Kunstverein Milan, 2013)
Carla
Zipser ed
Amazone mit Homepage : Künstlerinnen zwischen Tradition und Internet
(Munich : R. Fischer , 2002)
Nina
Zivančević, Onze femmes: artistes, slaves et nomades: Ljubinka Jovanovic, Kosara Boksan, Marina Abramovic, Evgenija Demnieska, Kirila Fäeh, Vesna Victoria, Vesna Bajalska, Ljubica Mrkalj, Olivera Majcen, Selena Vickovic, Jelena Miskovic.
(Paris: Non Lieu, 2011)
Tamara
Zlobina Feminism Is ...
(Ukraine: Kiev, 2008)
Ayelet
Zohar ed
PostGender: Gender, Sexuality and Performativity in Japanese Culture
(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009)
Jessica
Zychowicz ed
Freedom Taking Place: War, Women and Culture at the Intersection of Ukraine, Poland, and Belarus
(USA: Vernon Press, 2023)
More Oksana Briukhovetska (Secondary Archive.org), Magdalena Furmanik-Kowalska (The Polish Institute of World Art Studies, Poland; Fundacja Art & Modern), Małgorzata Jankowska (Academy of Fine Arts Gdańsk, Poland), Olga Plakhotnik (Ethnology Institute of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine;Greifswald University, Germany), Maria Mayerchyk (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine), Svitlana Biedarieva (Kennan Institute Wilson Center; George Washington University), Kateryna Iakovlenko (Suspilne.media; University College London SSEES), Joanna Dobkowska-Kubacka (University of Łódź, Poland), Veranika Laputska (Graduate School for Social Research, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland), Antonina Stebur (Spaika.media; The International Coalition of Cultural Workers Against the War in Ukraine; Universität der Künste Berlin, Germany; European College of Liberal Art, Minsk, Belarus), Nataliya Tchermalykh (University of Geneva, Switzerland), Jessica Zychowicz (Fulbright Ukraine; Institute of International Education Kyiv office, Ukraine), Agnieszka Graff (American Studies Center, University of Warsaw, Poland), Natallia Paulovich (Independent Researcher, Warsaw, Poland), Iryna Shuvalova (University of Oslo, Norway)
Jessica
Zychowicz Superfluous Women: Art, Feminism, and Revolution in Twenty-First-Century Ukraine
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020)
Joanna
Zylinska ed
The Cyborg Experiments: The Extensions of the Body in the Media Age
(London: Continuum, 2002)
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Joanna Zylinska (ed) The Cyborg Experiments:the Extensions of the Body in the Media Age London: Continuum, 2002 ISBN: 0-8264-5903-X
Focused on the work of Orlan and Stelarc, (with one essay dedicated to Gillian Wearing), this book offers thirteen different readings of these two artists' work, alongside some comparative analysis of the cyborg, the obsolete body, questions of aesthetics/ethics and self-hybridisation. A short statement on the 'Virtual And/Or Real' by Orlan is also included, alongside essays on her work by Rachel Armstrong, Fred Botting with Scott Wilson, Julie Clarke and Meridith Jones with Zoe Sofia.