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"The beauty of this book is the brilliant amassing by Susan Bee and Mira Schor of so many voices, ideas, and approaches. This anthology is full of gems, separately and in their juxtapositions. Fascinating, rich fare."--Moira Roth, coauthor of "Difference/Indifference: Musings on Postmodernism, Marcel Duchamp, and John Cage"
List of contents
M/E/A/N/I/N/G: Feminism, Theory, and Art Practice / Johanna Drucker
Introduction / Susan Bee and Mira Schor
I. Feminism and Art
“Post-Feminism”—A Remasculinization of Culture? / Amelia Jones
Appropriated Sexuality / Mira Schor
Why We Need “Bad Girls” Rather Than “Good” Ones! / Corinne Robins
Barbara Pollack / Letter on Bad Girls / Barbara Pollack
A Conversation on Censorship with Carolee Schneemann / Aviva Rahmani
Aesthetic and Postmenopausal Pleasures / Joanna Frueh
just a sketch . . . / Laura Cottingham
A Conversation on Lesbian Subjectivity and Painting with Deborah Kass / Patricia Cronin
Monstrous Domesticity / Faith Wilding
II. The Politics of Meaning and Representation
For
M/E/A/N/I/N/G / Charles Bernstein
Figure/Ground / Mira Schor
The Critic Is (?) Artist / Marcia Hafif
12 Questions of Art / Lucio Pozzi
Some Remarks on Racism in the American Arts / Daryl Chin
The Success of Failure / Joel Fisher
Visual Pleasure: A Feminist Perspective / Johanna Drucker
“I Don’t Take Voice Mail” / Charles Bernstein
III. Selections from the Forums
On Authenticity and Meaning / Arakawa & Madeline Gins, Susan Bee, Robert Berlind, Jake Berthot, Collins & Milazzo, Maureen Connor, Rackstraw Downes, David Humphrey, Komar & Melamid, Medrie MacPhee, Elizabeth Murray, Yvonne Rainer, Miriam Schapiro, Ann Schoenfeld, Pat Steir, Robert Storr, Lawrence Weiner
Contemporary Views on Racism in the Arts / Emma Amos, Josely Carvalho, Daryl Chin, Tom Finkelpearl, Madeline Gins, Renée Green, Hung Liu, Fern Logan, Juan Sanchez, Robert Storr
Over Time: A Forum on Art Making / Rudolf Baranik, Arthur Cohen, Hermine Ford, Nancy Fried, Leon Golub, John Goodyear, Nancy Grossman, Yvonne Jacquette, Ellen Lanyon, Ann McCoy, Melissa Meyer, Howardena Pindell, Lucio Pozzi, Jacques Roch, Miriam Schapiro, Carolee Schneemann, Richard Tuttle, David von Schlegell, Lawrence Weiner, Faith Wilding
On Motherhood, Art, and Apple Pie / Emma Amos, Suzanne Anker, Susan Bee, Emily Cheng, Stephanie DeManuelle, Jane Dickson, Bailey Doogan, Hermine Ford, Mimi Gross, Freya Hansell, Yvonne Jacquette, Joyce Kozloff, Ellen Lanyon, Betty Lee, Lenore Malen, Ann Messner, Diane Neumaier, Nancy Pierson, Barbara Pollack, Erika Rothenberg, Miriam Schapiro, Arlene Shechet, Dena Shottenkirk, Joan Snyder, Elke Solomon, Nancy Spero, May Stevens, Martha Wilson, Barbara Zucker
On Creativity and Community / Jackie Brookner, David Humphrey, William Pope, Robert C. Morgan, Barbara Pollack, Jerry Saltz, Mira Schor
IV. Artists’ Musings
Mother Baseball / Vanalyne Green
Bats / Tom Knechtel
The Discovered Uncovered / Nancy Spero
Running on Empty: An Artist’s Life in New York / Susan Bee
Reorganized Meditations on Mnemonic Threshold / Joseph Nechvatal
The Critic and the Hare: Meditations on the Death of My Rabbit / Ann McCoy
September 21, 1989 / Richard Tuttle
Alison Knowles: An Interview / Aviva Rahmani
Media Baptisms / David Reed
V. Artists in Perspective
Florine Stettheimer: Eccentric Power, Invisible Tradition / Pamela Wye
Cartoons of the Self: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Murderer—Art Spiegelman’s
Maus / Nancy K. Miller
Nancy Spero: Speaking in Tongues / Pamela Wye
Muse Begets Crone: On Leonora Carrington / Whitney Chadwick
Painting After Painting: The Paintings of Susan Bee / Misko Suvakovic
When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears: An Interview with Thomas McEvilley / Dominique Nahas
Appendix: Contents of M/E/A/N/I/N/G
About the author
Susan Bee and Mira Schor, eds.
Summary
Emphasising on artists' perspectives of aesthetic and social issues, this anthology provides an opportunity to enter into the fray of one of the most hotly contested art issues: the visibility of women artists, sexuality and the arts, censorship, art world racism, the legacies of modernism, artists as mothers, and visual art in the digital age.
