Feminist Art Criticism

An Anthology

Arlene Raven

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9780429980121
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Art General

From the Preface: "The essays in Feminist Art Criticism are theoretical, and we selected them for several reasons. First, they show a diversity of concerns. These include spirituality, sexuality, the representation of women in art, the necessary inter-relationship of theory and action, women as artmakers, ethnicity, language itself, so-called postfeminism and critiques of hte art world, the discipline of art history and the practice of art criticism. Second, the contributors' work has not been either widely disseminated or readily available. Third, the essays, especially arranged as they are (chronologically), demonstrate a continuous feminist discourse in art from the early 1970s through the present, a discourse that is neither monolithic nor intellectually trendy but that rather exhibits many elements, the polemical, Marxist, lyrical, and poststructuralist being only a few."

Index

Abramson, Charles, 207

Abstract-Expressionism, 37, 38

Akerman, Chantai, 136, 137, 145, 149, 151n9

Allegory, 9, 28

Allentuck, Marcia, 29, 55n8

Anguissola, Sofonisba, 175

Animais as art, 7, 9

Antonioni, Michelangelo, 137

Arbus, Diane, 6

Archetypes, 37; black Goddess, 83; Goddess consciousness, 71, 72, 75, 82, 86; Great Goddess, 71-72, 74, 75, 76, 81, 82, 83, 84-86, 101; masculine, 71

Archuleta-Sagel, Teresa, 195-96

Arredondo, Alicia, 196

Art, 22; allegory, 28; audience, 25, 42, 45, 53, 96, 112, 115; depiction of women, 23, 46, 59-60, 62, 87, 96; distortions, 23, 68; erotic, 25-26, 27, 28, 29, 33, 47, 59-60, 69; feminism, 24, 25, 27, 28, 41, 49, 159, 169; “high, ” 23, 28, 35, 49, 69; “high” vs “low, ” 32, 33, 39, 44, 156, 169; male/female, 156; pornography, 47, 56n20, sexist content, 37, 60, 62, 68, social reality, 23, 25, 35, 36, 67, 68, traditional vs feminist, 87. See also Art, feminist; Art, psychological aspects; Art, sociopolitical aspects, Eroticism; Feminism

Art, feminist, xi-xn, 1-2, 6-7, 42-43, 88-89, 90, 91, 92, 94, 109nl, 169, 230-31, alchemy, 72, 73, 86; archetypal, 16, 18, attribution problems, 170-71, 172, 174-75, 177, 180; authority, 68, 69; blacks, 207-8, 209-10, 213, 215, 223-24; characteristics, 20; Chicanas, 192—93, 194, 195; disappearance of works, 170-71, Earth-alchemy, 72, 76, 84, 86; exhibits, 20, 25, female artists, 93-94, 10...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• Another Cuntree: At Last, a Mainstream Female Art Movement
• Fine Arts and Feminism: The Awakening Consciousness
• The Aesthetics of Power in Modern Erotic Art
• The Reemergence of the Archetype of the Great Goddess in Art by Contemporary Women
• Textual Strategies: The Politics of Art-Making
• Visions and Re-Visions: Rosa Luxemburg and the Artist’s Mother
• Against the Grain: A Working Gynergenic Art Criticism
• Aesthetic and Feminist Theory: Rethinking Women’s Cinema
• Towards a Feminist Theory of Art Criticism
• Women Artists and the Politics of Representation
• “Portraying Ourselves”: Contemporary Chicana Artists
• Aspects of Performance in the Work of Black American Women Artists
• The Last Essay on Feminist Criticism
• List of Contributors
• Index
• Icon Editions