The impact of women artists on the contemporary art movement has resulted in a powerful and innovative feminist reworking of traditional approaches to the theory and history of art. Feminism and Contemporary Art discusses the work of individual women artists within the context of the wider social, physical and political world. Jo Anna Isaac looks ...
This book examines race, representation and the contested cultural construction of identity. The black body has been everywhere in evidence in painting, film, photography -- even cookie jars and lawn ornaments -- and at the same time been rendered invisible. The artists in this exhibition, beginning with Maria Howard Weeden's 1895 portraits of ex ...
Called 'a retrospective of Soviet culture curated by the connoisseurs of chaos,' the exhibition that this catalogue accompanies brought together contemporary artists in St. Petersburg who are combining Western art movements like postmodernism with the traditional Russian art of the college. These works combine images that have become familiar to ...
Less well known but perhaps even more compelling are Molline's erotic Polaroid photographs of the prostitutes and women of Torino, made beginning in the 1960s. Created in the confines of Casa Mollino, the magically surreal and mystical studio in Turin that Mollino occupied during the last fourteen years of his life, the erotic Polaroids suggest an ...
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