Synopses & Reviews
There had never been art like the art produced by women artists in the 1970s--and there has never been a book with the ambition and scope of this one about that groundbreaking era.
Review
This is a cultural excavation project: Much of the work here hasn't been seen in decades. But it's also an argument for the revision of recent art history. Bookforum
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Review
An indispensable refernece book that aims to return the achievements of the women's movement in art to their deserved place at the center of art-historical discourse. The MIT Press The MIT Press
Synopsis
Groundbreaking art from a revolutionary era, featuring work by more than 120 international artists, from Louise Bourgeois and Yoko Ono to Martha Rosler, Marina Abramovič, and Cindy Sherman.
Synopsis
andlt;Pandgt;Groundbreaking art from a revolutionary era, featuring work by more than 120 international artists, from Louise Bourgeois and Yoko Ono to Martha Rosler, Marina Abramoviand#38;#269;, and Cindy Sherman.andlt;/Pandgt;
About the Author
Richard Meyer is associate professor in the Department of Art History atthe University of Southern California, where he teaches courses onmodern art and the history of photography. He is the author ofOutlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-CenturyAmerican Art (Oxford, 2002) and the editor of Representing the Passions:Histories, Bodies, Visions (Getty Center, 2003).
Table of Contents
andlt;Pandgt;Art and Feminism, by Cornelia ButlerPlatesArtist BiographiesChronology through Cartography, by Marsha MeskimmonThe Woman Who Never Was, by Abigail Solomon-GodeauThe Returns of Touch, by Peggy PhelanHard Targets, by Richard MeyerVoices and Images of Italian Feminism, by Judith Russi KirshnerAbundant Evidence, by Valerie SmithFugitive Identities and Dissenting Code-Systems, by Nelly RichardPainting with Ambivalence, by Helen MolesworthTheir Memory Is Playing Tricks on Her, by Catherine LordThe Feminist Hand, by Jenni SorkinSelected Chronology of All-Women Group Exhibitions, 1943--83Checklist of the Exhibitionandlt;/Pandgt;