Recommended Reading: A Book List on Feminist Art

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  The Museum of Modern Art, New York Cindy Sherman Published to accompany the first major survey of Cindy Sherman’s work in the United States in nearly 15 years, this publication presents a stunning range of work from the groundbreaking artist’s 35-year career. Showcasing approximately 180 photographs from the mid-1970s to the present, including new works made for the exhibition and never before published, the volume is a vivid exploration of Sherman’s sustained investigation into the construction of contemporary identity and the nature of representation. The book highlights major bodies of work including her seminal Untitled Film Stills (1977–80); centerfolds (1981); history portraits (1989–90); head shots (2000–2002); and two recent series on the experience and representation of aging in the context of contemporary obsessions with youth and status. An essay by curator Eva Respini provides an overview of Sherman’s career, weaving together art historical analysis and discussions of the artist’s working methods, and a contribution by art historian Johanna Burton offers . . . . [see book details]

  By Eva Respini. Text by Johanna Burton. Interview by John Waters. Clth, 9.5 x 12 in. / 264 pgs / 153 color / 102 b&w. Publication Date: 2/29/2012 List Price: US $60.00

  Violette Editions Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed Psychoanalytic Writings Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) invented a new kind of language for sculpture--a language that was essentially psychoanalytic, uniquely capable of expressing oedipal struggle, ominous forces of repression, sexual symbolism and material uncanniness. Famed for some of the twentieth century’s most enduring works, such as The Destruction of the Father” (1974), Arch of Hysteria” (1993) and Maman” (1999), Bourgeois also disseminated her influence through her writings, collected in the 1998 volume Destruction of the Father/Reconstruction of the Father: Writings 1927–1997--originally published by Robert Violette, also the publisher of this new deluxe writings-cum-monograph two-volume set. Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed highlights the enduring presence of psychoanalysis as a motivational force and a site of exploration in the artist’s life and work. Selected and edited by Philip Larratt-Smith (Bourgeois’ literary archivist), and contextualized with eight extensive scholarly essays, this collection of approximately 80 previously unpublished writings spans some six decades of the artist’s . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Philip Larratt-Smith. Text by Louise Bourgeois, Elisabeth Bronfen, Donald Kuspit, Juliet Mitchell, Mignon Nixon, Paul Verhaeghe with Julie de Ganck, Meg Harris Williams. Slip, Hbk, 2 vols., 7.5 x 10 in. / 500 pgs / 113 color. Publication Date: 5/31/2012 List Price: US $75.00

  D.A.P./San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Francesca Woodman Artists who arrive fully formed at a young age always dazzle, and Francesca Woodman was one of the most gifted and dazzling artist prodigies in recent history. In 1972, the 13-year-old Woodman made a black-and-white photograph of herself sitting at the far end of a sofa in her home in Boulder, Colorado. Her face is obscured by her hair, light radiates from an unseen source behind her out at the viewer through her right hand. This photograph typifies much of what would characterize Woodman's work to come: a semi-obscured female form merging with or flailing against a somewhat bare and often dilapidated interior. In an oeuvre of around 800 photographs made in just nine years, Woodman performed her own body against the textures of wallpaper, door frame, baths and couches, radically extending the Surrealist photography of Man Ray, Hans Bellmer and Claude Cahun and creating a mood and language all her . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Corey Keller. Text by Julia Bryan-Wilson, Jennifer Blessing. Clth, 9.25 x 10.75 in. / 224 pgs / 13 color / 18 b&w / 144 duotone. Publication Date: 12/31/2011 List Price: US $49.95

  Independent Curators International Martha Wilson Sourcebook 40 Years of Reconsidering Performance, Feminism, Alternative Spaces Martha Wilson's career encapsulates the contestations of feminist and socially engaged art. In her work and throughout her life, Wilson has explored how identity and positioning are not merely given, self-defined or projected, but also negotiated. The complex nature of her work encompasses conceptually-based performances, videos and photo-text compositions since the early 1970s. Martha Wilson Sourcebook is a collection of primary research materials consisting of rare archival documents and excerpts of landmark publications that influenced Wilson, such as Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, Erving Goffman's The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life and Susan Sontag's On Photography. This unique selection of materials documents Wilson's actions and work, reveals her interest in fellow artists such as Vito Acconci, Carolee Scheemann, Nancy Spero and Lynda Benglis and includes in its entirety Lucy Lippard's exhibition catalogue for C. 7,500, the groundbreaking 1973 exhibition of women Conceptual artists, which first declared the significance of . . . . [see book details]

  Foreword by Kate Fowle. Introduction by Moira Roth. Text by Martha Wilson. Pbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 256 pgs / 200 b&w. Publication Date: 10/31/2011 List Price: US $25.00

  Charta/Change Performing Arts Shirin Neshat: Women Without Men Women Without Men is renowned visual artist Shirin Neshat's feature-film debut. Its exquisitely crafted view of the artist's native Iran during its tumultuous British and American-backed coup d'état in 1953 won Neshat the Silver Lion at the 2009 Venice International Film Festival. Adapted from the novel by Iranian author Shahrnush Parsipur, the film draws together the initially separate stories of five female characters during those traumatic days. With a camera that floats sedately through the lives of the women and the countryside of Iran, Neshat explores the political and psychological dimensions of her characters as they converge in a metaphorical orchard. This volume unites stills from the series of five video installations that originated the film with photographs and texts by critic Eleanor Heartney, Parsipur and the artist. . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Shoja Azari, Eleanor Heartney, Shirin Neshat, Shahrnush Parsipur. Pbk, 9.25 x 11.5 in. / 120 pgs / 55 color / 29 b&w. Publication Date: 5/31/2011 List Price: US $39.95

  The Museum of Modern Art, New York Sanja Ivekovic: Sweet Violence Published in conjunction with the first solo museum exhibition of the work of Sanja Ivekovic in the United States, this volume is the most comprehensive survey on the artist available in English. A feminist, activist and video and performance pioneer, Ivekovic came of age in the early 1970s during the period known as the Croatian Spring, when artists broke free from mainstream institutional settings. This catalogue presents an overview of the artist's projects from the early 1970s to 2011 in all mediums, offering a fascinating view of gender roles, the official politics of power and the paradoxes inherent in a society's collective memory. Featured works include Ivekovic's historic single-channel videos, performances and sculptural installations as well as a selection from Double Life (1975-76), her celebrated series of 64 photocollages. Weaving together art-historical analysis and political theory, the publication offers a critical examination of the neo-avant-garde in former Yugoslavia and investigates the . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Roxana Marcoci. Text by Roxana Marcoci, Terry Eagleton. Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 192 pgs / 252 color. Publication Date: 12/31/2011 List Price: US $50.00

  Silvana Editoriale Regina José Galindo Since 1999, the Guatemalan performance artist Regina José Galindo (born 1974) has drawn attention to her native country's oppression of women and the poor by activating her body as a site for collective inscription. Several of her performances are extreme exercises in the deprivation of dignity: she has been publicly stunned with an electroshock gun and cleansed” with a power hose; she once commissioned a plastic surgeon to locate the imperfections on her naked body in public with a marker. In Guatemala, these actions are not so easily assigned to the symbolic realm: in a 2005 interview Galindo said, As Guatemalans, we know how to decipher any image of pain, because we have seen it all up close.” This volume surveys all of Regina José Galindo's works in performance and video from 2006 to 2010. . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Rosina Cazali, Fernando Castro Flórez, Eugenio Viola, Clare Carolin. Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 400 pgs / 200 color. Publication Date: 10/31/2011 List Price: US $45.00

  Hayward Publishing Tracey Emin: Love Is What You Want Since she first emerged in the early 1990s as a member of a generation later tagged the Young British Artists,” Tracey Emin (born 1963) has made art that takes as its starting point the most harrowing and intimate details of her personal history. Published for a major exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London, Tracey Emin: Love Is What You Want brings together suites of works from across the artist's career, spotlighting her achievements in a wide variety of media, including sculpture, drawing, painting, text-based works, photographs, video and performance. Sometimes confrontational or sexually provocative, Emin's art resonates with the personal is political” legacy of feminist art, while simultaneously speaking to relationships in general, as well as exploring spirituality, cultural identity, class and celebrity. Disarmingly frank and often deeply confessional, Emin's art is also animated by her playful and ironic wit, as this new survey monograph indicates. . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Michael Corris, Jennifer Doyle, Cliff Lauson, Ali Smith, Ralph Rugoff. Pbk, 9.75 x 9.75 in. / 260 pgs / 170 color. Publication Date: 8/31/2011 List Price: US $45.00

  Siglio It Is Almost That A Collection of Image & Text Work by Women Artists & Writers A marvelously bold interdisciplinary anthology, It Is Almost That collects works by women artists and writers who have constructed hybrid environments that merge image and text. The works in this collection are supremely imaginative in both form and content: from the semi-autobiographical novel painted by a young artist who died in the Holocaust (Charlotte Salomon) to Alison Knowles' computer-generated chance operation for "imagining" houses and their inhabitants; from the pseudo-scientific examination of a conversation between a mother and a daughter (Eleanor Antin) to the dark, comic interrogation of violence against women (Sue Williams); from the transformations of newspaper headlines (Suzanne Treister) to the probing of animal consciousness (Cole Swensen & Shari De Graw); from the body maps drawn by South African women with AIDS (Bambanani Women's Group) to the alchemical transformation of the pregnant body into an evolving landscape and philosophical meditation (Susan Hiller). Other contributors to It Is Almost That . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Lisa Pearson. Clth, 8.25 x 10.25 in. / 296 pgs / illustrated throughout. Publication Date: 5/31/2011 List Price: US $45.00

  Walther König, Köln Valie Export: Time and Countertime Having quickly tired of life as an editor and extra in the Austrian film industry, in 1967 Waltraud Hollinger changed her name to Valie Export and plunged into the violent and often blood-soaked world of Viennese performance art and the extremist "Actions" of Hermann Nitsch, Günter Brus, Otto Mühl and Rudolf Schwarzkogler. Like them, Export subjected her body to pain, but where their work was inevitably drawn towards a religious idea of catharsis, Export politicized the inscription of women's bodies in terms of media representation, declaring her project as explicitly feminist. Export soon turned to video to record her performances and began to remove her person from her work, as in her now-famous 1971 video "Facing a Family." Today, across more than four decades of activity, Export has built a large and rigorous oeuvre comprising performance, photography, film and media installations. This volume surveys her career. . . . . [see book details]

  Foreword by Agnes Husslein-Arco and Stella Rollig. Introduction by Angelika Nollert. Texts by Sabeth Buchmann, Yilmaz Dziewior, Elke Krasny, Hanne Loreck, Maren Lübbke-Tidow, Letizia Ragaglia, Brigitte Reutner, Johanna Schwanberg, Berta M. Sichel. Hbk, 9.75 x 13 in. / 304 pgs / 278 color. Publication Date: 4/30/2011 List Price: US $59.95

  DuMont Buchverlag Power Up: Female Pop Art Despite the frequent mockery by Pop artists of the Abstract Expressionists' machismo and swagger, the best-known artists of the Pop era (as art history has defined it) were men. Power Up explores a generation of female artists working in the Pop art milieu, whose concerns offered a more overt critique of consumerism and gender issues than their male counterparts. The works of Evelyne Axell, Christa Dichgans, Rosalyn Drexler, Jann Haworth, Dorothy Iannone, Sister Corita Kent, Kiki Kogelnik, Marisol and Niki de Saint Phalle share with their male contemporaries a brashness of color, cartoonish figuration and consumerist imagery, but set aside the Duchampian strategies of irony found in Johns or Warhol, in favor of a more animated, life-embracing, combative zest, political critique and direct expressions of sexuality and lust. Before feminism had coalesced into a coherent movement, these women dismantled consumerist exploitation of female imagery, critiqued capitalism and celebrated their desires, working . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Angela Stief. Flexi, 7.5 x 10.5 in. / 288 pgs / 181 color / 31 b&w. Publication Date: 2/28/2011 List Price: US $45.00

  Siglio Nancy Spero: Torture of Women Torture of Women is Nancy Spero's fierce and enduring contribution to contemporary art and to the continuing protest against torture, injustice and the abuse of power. It is also a pivotal work by an American artist whose immense impact has yet to be fully examined. Groundbreaking in its potent juxtaposition of text and image, Torture of Women is a series of 14 panels, totaling 125 ft. in length, that took Spero two years to make and was completed in 1976. On vast fields of space, Spero collaged startling imagery drawn from ancient mythology with hand-printed and typewritten words—first-person testimony by women detailing their experiences at the hands of their abusers culled from Amnesty International reports, news items on women missing or dead, definitions of torture from the twentieth and thirteenth centuries, as well as the retelling of violent Sumerian and Babylonian creation myths. Siglio's publication translates the epic work into nearly . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Lisa Pearson. Text by Diana Nemiroff, Luisa Valenzuela, Elaine Scarry. Hbk, 8.5 x 9.5 in. / 156 pgs / 96 color / 1 b&w. Publication Date: 4/30/2010 List Price: US $48.00

  Neuberger Museum of Art Hannah Wilke: Gestures The act of folding is the salient gesture in the sculptures of American artist Hannah Wilke (1940-1993). Taking such materials as clay, bubble gum and Play-Doh, Wilke fashioned serial forms that folded inward or opened out with overtly labial sensuousness. Wilke often placed these objects in compromising situations--hinged with pins or glued to walls and boards, placed freely on the floor, always seemingly on the verge of disaster. Today she is famed for her many nude self-portraits, which have threatened to eclipse the sculptural basis of both the portraits themselves and her work in general. By emphasizing folding as a gesture, this catalogue--the first on the artist to appear in many years--unites Wilke's sculpture and photography under the rubric of performance, and the performing of material. With an abundance of color reproductions and critical commentary, Hannah Wilke: Gestures offers a fresh assessment of a pioneer in sculpture, feminist art and performance. . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Tracy Fitzpatrick with Saundra Goldman, Tom Kochheiser, Griselda Pollock. Pbk, 8 x 9.5 in. / 108 pgs / 58 color / 3 b&w. Publication Date: 8/30/2010 List Price: US $29.95

  Hauser & Wirth Ida Applebroog: Monalisa In 2009, a box of forgotten notebooks was rediscovered in the basement of Ida Applebroog's studio--Strathmore drawing tablets, with the words "Vagina Drawings" scrawled on the cover. Forty years prior, Applebroog took sanctuary from the pressures of the home in an evening bath. Her nightly soak offered her moments of meditation and, equipped with her drawing pad, she began drawing portraits of her crotch. Applebroog's newest body of work, Monalisa, is in many ways an extension of that ritual. The centerpiece of this project is a room-sized wooden structure covered with more than 100 new vagina drawings--reappropriations of the 1969 originals. In the catalogue essay, Julia Bryan-Wilson contends that the installation, "with its signature figural obsessions and urgent feminist force, feels like an epic culmination of [Applebroog's] entire oeuvre." Monalisa offers new insight into Applebroog's work with full-color reproductions of the never-before-seen 2009 drawings, images of the installation and an essay . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Julia Bryan-Wilson. Clth, 8.75 x 10.5 in. / 136 pgs / 44 color / 6 b&w. Publication Date: 4/30/2010 List Price: US $45.00

  Hatje Cantz Lee Lozano The career of American artist Lee Lozano (1930-1999) was brief but extraordinarily intense. Throughout the 1960s, during the transition from Pop art to Minimalism and Conceptualism, and up until her self-imposed exile in the 1970s, Lozano created a genuinely radical and frequently obscene body of work that traversed a gamut of idioms. Her early paintings were executed in a messy cartoon style, oozing with violence and sexuality. By 1967, Lozano was responding to Minimalism and Op art with her abstract Wave paintings. It was also around this time that she initiated a series of actions that tested both the limits of art and acceptable conduct in society, such as smoking pot, masturbating and, mostly notoriously of all, boycotting women. This publication accompanies a retrospective of Lozano's works at Moderna Museet in Stockholm--works which after 40 years remain as witty, acerbic and shockingly fresh as ever. . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Iris Müller-Westermann, Jo Applin, Lucy R. Lippard, Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer. Pbk, 8.75 x 11 in. / 272 pgs / 291 color. Publication Date: 8/31/2010 List Price: US $60.00

  Walther König, Köln Gender Check Femininity and Masculinty in the Art of Eastern Europe How were workers depicted on Socialist posters? How were male "heroes" portrayed in officially sanctioned art in Romania in the 1960s? How did female artists see themselves during the transition period after 1989? How do images impact on our view of the sexes? Gender Check reflects ideas of masculinity and femininity in the former Communist bloc, 20 years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, looking at both official and unofficial art from the Baltics to the Caucasus, from the 1960s to the decisive events of 1989 to the present. It is published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition that includes a selection of paintings, sculptures, photographs, posters, installations, films and videos by over 200 artists, making it an important addition to contemporary gender discourse. . . . . [see book details]

  Preface by Edelbert Köbb, Rainer Fuchs, Agnieszka Morawinska. Text by Boris Marte, Christine Böhler, Bojana Pejic, et al. Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 392 pgs / 400 color. Publication Date: 9/30/2010 List Price: US $55.00

  The Museum of Modern Art, New York Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art This landmark survey represents the first effort by a major North American museum to examine its collection by highlighting the production of modern and contemporary women artists. Featuring essays by nearly 50 writers, including both MoMA curators and outside scholars, among them many of the strongest voices in current research on art and gender, this groundbreaking publication presents a variety of generational and cultural perspectives. Modern Women focuses on a diverse range of artists active from the late nineteenth century to the present whose works span the spectrum of mediums and genres in the Museum's collection. Organized chronologically into three sections—“Early Modernism,” Mid-Century” and Contemporary”—the book comprises both long and short essays emphasizing new research on women artists within these historical time periods. Subjects include women at the Bauhaus, design collaborations, photographers between the wars, the legacy of Maya Deren, Latin American artists, performance art, architecture, land art, Riot Grrrls,” African . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Cornelia Butler, Alexandra Schwartz. Introductions by Cornelia Butler, Griselda Pollock, Aruna D'Souza. Hbk, 9 x 10.5 in. / 512 pgs / 400 color. Publication Date: 6/30/2010 List Price: US $65.00

  The Museum of Modern Art, New York Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present Since the beginning of her career, in Belgrade in the late 1960s, Marina Abramovic has been a pioneer of performance art, creating some of the most important works in the field. Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present accompanies an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art that documents approximately 50 of the artist's ephemeral time- and media-based works from throughout her career. The book also discusses a unique element of the Museum's retrospective, live performance: a new work created for the occasion, and performed by Abramovic herself; and re-creations of the artist's works by other performers—the first such to be undertaken in a museum setting. The book spans over four decades of Abramovic's early interventions and sound pieces, video works, installations, photographs, solo performances and collaborative performances made with the Dutch artist Ulay (Uwe Laysiepen). Essays by Klaus Biesenbach, Chief Curator of Media and performance art at MoMA, and four distinguished . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Klaus Biesenbach. Text by Arthur C. Danto, Chrissie Iles, Nancy Spector, Jovana Stokic. Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 224 pgs / 375 color / Audio CD. Publication Date: 4/30/2010 List Price: US $50.00

  Gregory R. Miller & Co. Ghada Amer Over the past 20 years, Ghada Amer's quest to forge an aesthetic language for the oppression of women has established her as one of the most important and widely exhibited contemporary artists. Born in Cairo in 1963, and moving to France at age 11, from early on in life Amer was witness to the cross-cultural subjugation of women, whether from increasing religious conservatism in Egypt, or via the subtler machinations of Western commodity culture. In Amer's hand-embroidered paintings, delicate abstract tracings of sewn thread are counterposed with often quiet but sometimes confrontational erotic imagery. Trawling all manner of materials from fashion magazines, children's fairy tales, pornography, dictionaries, the Koran and medieval Arabic manuscripts, Amer challenges their authority, highlighting their exclusions and countering with a powerfully asserted female subject. This handsome monograph is the first publication to document the full breadth of her art, with numerous images of and detailed commentary on . . . . [see book details]

  Essay by Maura Reilly. Text by Laurie Ann Farrell. Interview with Martine Antle. Hbk, 8.5 x 11in. / 304 pgs / 200 color. Publication Date: 8/31/2010 List Price: US $70.00

  Four Corners Books Show & Tell: A Chronicle of Group Material In 1979, the artist collective Group Material opened a storefront at East 13th Street on New York's Lower East Side, from which they launched exhibitions—45 in all—that radically overhauled curatorial thought, setting art alongside artifacts, documentary material and storebought objects, within exhibitions that were oriented around topical social concerns. Group Material's original members—Julie Ault, Patrick Brennan, Beth Jaker, Mundy McLaughlin, Marybeth Nelson, Tim Rollins and Peter Szypula—came from backgrounds in feminism, Marxist theory, design and popular culture, and curated classic exhibits reflecting this eclecticism, such as It's a Gender Show, AIDS Timeline and The People's Choice—a collection of everyday objects (wedding photos, dolls, even a cigarette-pack collage) gathered from people living on their block. Show & Tell is the first monograph on Group Material, and charts the group's activities, with essays by original members, plus original documents, photographs, drawings, correspondence and interviews. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Julie Ault. Essays by Doug Ashford, Julie Ault, Sabrina Locks, Tim Rollins. Flexi, 8.5 x 11 in. / 272 pgs / 180 color / 50 b&w. Publication Date: 5/31/2010 List Price: US $35.00

  Primary Information Lee Lozano: Notebooks 1967-70 Transiting Pop art, Feminist Expressionism, Conceptualism and Minimalism, Lee Lozano (1930–1999) sits alongside Eva Hesse and Hannah Wilke as a radical and influential model for younger generations of female artists. Lozano's notebooks, which she approached as drawings, and which were later dismantled and sold as individual pages, became a part of her artmaking at the height of her fame in the late 1960s. Reproduced here for the first time, as an affordably-priced facsimile reprint, the three notebooks collected here, which were kept between 1967–1970, contain sketches for her Wave paintings, writings about the trajectory of her artistic process and the language pieces that she became famous for prior to her withdrawal from the art world. They thus constitute the fullest and richest document on an artist whose relevance and profile have recently seen a steady ascent. . . . . [see book details]

  Pbk, 8.5 x 10.75 in. / 224 pgs / 108 b&w. Publication Date: 4/30/2010 List Price: US $24.00

  Hatje Cantz Birgit Jürgenssen The Austrian artist Birgit Jürgenssen (1949–2003) was an outstanding heroine of the feminist avant garde. From the late 1960s she made the female body the focus of her work, through drawing, collage, painting and photography. With many previously unseen works from the artist's estate, this volume surveys Jürgenssen's career. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Gabriele Schor. Text by Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Elisabeth Bronfen, Sigrid Schade. Hbk, 9.25 x 11.75 in. / 296 pgs / 350 color. Publication Date: 5/31/2010 List Price: US $60.00

  Los Angeles County Museum of Art Eleanor Antin . . . . [see book details]

  Artwork by Eleanor Antin. Contributions by Lisa Bloom. Text by Graham Beal, Howard Fox. Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 264 pgs / 60 color / 100 b&w. Publication Date: 5/2/1999 List Price: US $24.95

  Regency Arts Press Kathe Burkhart: The Liz Taylor Series The First 25 Years: 1982-2007 The respected New York painter Kathe Burkhart is best known internationally for her Liz Taylor Series, a Feminist conceptual project that is more a highly performative serial work than a simple body of paintings and drawings devoted to this iconic and perpetually complicated Hollywood muse. In Burkhart's work, Taylor's multiple personae--actress, vixen, Hollywood royalty, serial wife and divorcée, party girl, charitable humanitarian, entrepreneur, rebel, dominant woman--together form a media-based mirror of contemporary female identity. Derived from tabloid and paparazzi shots, film stills and publicity photos and often emblazoned with highly charged expressions of profanity, the paintings portray the actress as a two-dimensional doppelgänger for the artist herself--caught in the act of reclaiming female sexuality and power. This comprehensive volume, arranged in chronological order, presents Burkhart's series-in-progress at its 25-year mark. Consistently intense and obsessively focused, it is a relentlessly powerful experience. . . . . [see book details]

  Paperback, 6.5 x 9 in. / 209 pgs / 186 color. Publication Date: 2/1/2008 List Price: US $45.00

  JRP|Ringier Cooling Out On the Paradox of Feminism How can a political or social movement create so many positive changes while simultaneously developing such negative connotations? Such is the central paradox of Feminism for the editors of this book. The term cooling out” was coined by UCLA’s Burton Clark to describe the postgraduate period when a student’s interest in pursuing an academic career suddenly dwindles. The exhibition project gathered here appropriated Clark's phrase to describe the disinterest of young women toward the ideas and forms of Feminism, resulting from a lack of palpable aims on the one hand and the acceptance of existing structures on the other. The exhibition examined--through works by female and male artists--the influences of the media, education and existing social structures on the constitution of gender identity. This volume goes further, gathering texts by Katy Deepwell, Sonja Eismann, Annie Fletcher, Andrea Geyer, Toril Moi and Vera Tollmann, among others. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Sabine Schaschl-Cooper, Bettina Steinbrügge, René Zechlin. Text by Annie Fletcher, Katy Deepwell, Toril Moi. Hardcover, 9.25 x 6.5 in. / 160 pgs / 60 color / 30 b&w. Publication Date: 3/1/2008 List Price: US $37.00

  JRP|Ringier Susan Hiller: The Provisional Texture of Reality Selected Texts and Talks, 1977-2007 A former anthropologist, Susan Hiller has, since the late 1970s, forged an interface between critical writing and a visual art practice in which feminist and postcolonial cultural politics are fused with idiosyncratic explorations of science, magic and the continuing lure of psychoanalysis. In a 2001 interview, she stated, "What I think art provides is something like an instigation or an enhanced awareness of how we are all collaboratively and creatively implicated in making a culture." This comprehensive volume compiles previously published essays, interviews, papers, lectures and other ephemera which document Hiller's incisive interventions into contemporary debates on the shifting roles of art and theory. Structured in three sections, the book--part of JRP|Ringier's Positions series--is simultaneously theoretical and deeply personal. Born in Tallahassee, Florida Susan Hiller has lived and worked in London since the early 1970s. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Alexandra Kokoli. Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 160 pgs. Publication Date: 11/1/2008 List Price: US $22.00

  JRP|Ringier It's Time for Action There's No Option About Feminism This text-heavy exhibition catalogue focuses on self-confident, nonconformist Feminist positions, pointing out that new role models and strategies are being requested. Essayist Amelia Jones contests the notion of a current Postfeminism and, using the example of Pipilotti Rist's works, develops a model of Parafeminism. Refering to Mary Beth Edelson and Annie Sprinkle, Maria Elena Buszek compares two generations and their respective strategies. Katy Deepwell questions the role of female artists within art history. Mercedes Bunz looks at feminism in relation to flexibilized capitalism and diagnoses a new form of oppression. And exhibition curator Heike Munder presents a survey of the exhibition's different positions, making an appeal for new role models. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Heike Munder. Text by Amelia Jones, Mercedes Bunz, Maria Elena Buszek, Katy Deepwell. Hardback, 6 x 9.25 in. / 164 pgs / illustrated throughout. Publication Date: 3/1/2008 List Price: US $39.00

  Mis Dias Press Robin Kahn: The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Art The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Art is a new book built on the pages of an old one, a smart, witty take on art history collaged over the text and images of a 1950s introduction to fine art for "club women." Conceptual artist Robin Kahn has bound that palimpsest as a board-book for beginners looking for a fresh and informed entry into contemporary art through the work of a woman artist and curator, and her work reflects changes in both the art world and its audience. A section on recommendations that once directed readers to Mondrian, Jacques-Louis David and Degas now suggests they check out, among others listed by category, "Mannerist: Lorna Simpson"; "Screamer: Yoko Ono;" and "Dildo Strapper: Lynda Benglis." The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Art is a comic alternative to art history, an art-historically minded piece of art, and a beautifully crafted, colored and reproduced work in itself. . . . . [see book details]

  Artwork by Robin Kahn. Hardcover, 5 x 7 in. / 34 pgs / 26 color. Publication Date: 8/15/2006 List Price: US $16.95

  Dis Voir Keep This Sex Out Of My Sight The Undisplayable of Female Sex as Revealed by Women Ever since women artists gave themselves the right to declare their sexual fantasies, their work has yielded revelations for those who once declared their fantasies for them. In a raw language that ignores taboos, these women speak of sex like Courbet painted "The Origin of the World." Keep This Sex Out of My Sight is a hymn to women's sex, a celebration of feminine desire, so often erased, hidden and forgotten. For the artists whose texts and images appear here, obscenity and pornography are responses to the male fear of the female sexual organ, and confronting them cancels their power. . . . . [see book details]

  Essays by Elvan Zabunyan, Marie Joseph Bertini and Francoise Gange. Paperback, 6.25 x 8.75 in. / 128 pgs / 25 color / 25 b&w. Publication Date: 3/2/2003 List Price: US $29.95

  The Trout Gallery, Dickinson College Joyce Kozloff: Co-Ordinates Joyce Kozloff: Co-Ordinates considers the New York-based artist's paintings and works on paper--which employ the formal structure and conventions of cartography to examine issues of power, gender and global politics--from the late 1990s to the present. This is the first book to consider Kozloff's work since the late 1990s within the broader context of her career and the history of map-related art. Charting her influential contribution to the Pattern and Decoration movement--which was an integral part of the downtown New York art scene of the 1970s--the volume also explores Kozloff's later, large-scale public artworks. Fifty full-color photo spreads are dedicated to key projects--Targets, Boys' Art, American History and Voyages--and accompanied by an essay by critic Nancy Princenthal and an interview with the artist. Joyce Kozloff is a founding member of the Pattern and Decoration movement and the Heresies collective and is a primary figure in the feminist art world. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Phillip Earenfight. Text by Nancy Princenthal, Phillip Earenfight. Clth, 10.5 x 12 in. / 132 pgs / 132 color. Publication Date: 3/1/2009 List Price: US $45.00

  D.A.P./Les Presses du Reel Annette Messager: Word for Word Texts and words are of crucial importance to Annette Messager's work--for her, "words are images." And so words--at once autonomous from, parallel to, and the sources of her visual creativity--are woven throughout her production. She has looked directly at our diverse relationships to language in forms ranging from the early scrapbooks of the 1970s to the large sculpted words of the late 1990s, and others including personal diaries, letters, calligraphy, alphabets and primers. She works with the repeated, drawn, framed and sculpted word; newsprint, collage and montage of texts and photographs; and handwritten texts. Plays on words and palindromes turn up in her exhibition titles and, more recently, in her children's books. All of these uses of language stem as much from Dada and Surrealism as from the aesthetics of the banal and the everyday, and they give rise to unclassifiable texts, which call somewhere between a literature of the news . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Marie-Laure Bernadac. Interviews with Harald Szeemann, Robert Storr, Bernard Marcadé and Suzanne Pagé. Hardcover, 7.75 x 10.25 in. / 416 pgs / 280 color / 20 b&w. Publication Date: 6/1/2006 List Price: US $65.00

  The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design Martha Rosler: 3 Works I The Restoration of High Culture; II The Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems; III In, Around, and Afterthoughts (on documentary photography) In 3 Works, photographer and critic Martha Rosler braids together three classic, newly relevant pieces tracing the ways in which photography's aesthetic conventions and social practices fail or succeed in generating socially meaningful work--work that not only takes into account the political conditions within which it was produced and assumes social and political responsibility but also activates the viewer. The title three works are The Restoration of High Culture in Chile, a 1972 short fiction piece-cum-essay that examines the degrees of political anaesthesia and corruption a successful adaptation to high culture implies, The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems, a 1974 photo work in which contemporary urban photography's capacity to continue documentary photography's historical work is questioned, and in, around, and afterthoughts, a 1981 critical essay exploring these questions more systematically and attempting to develop criteria to define contemporary photographic activities as meaningful social practice. . . . . [see book details]

  Photographs by Martha Rosler. Paperback, 11 x 8 in. / 89 pgs / 49 duotone. Publication Date: 4/1/2006 List Price: US $24.95

  CEPA Gallery Carolee Schneemann: Split Decision This volume collects works from two recent Schneemann exhibitions. Buffalo's CEPA Gallery focused on the themes of War, Erotics and Felines, while featuring Schneemann's best-known works, including "Interior Scroll," "Vulva's Morphia," and her films, Fuse and Meat Joy. And Toronto's Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art addressed Schneemann's history of working in Canada, also presenting three recent, large-scale, multi-channel video installations, "Devour," "SNAFU" and "Video Rocks," as well as large scale prints. Exploring Schneemann's career from different historical and political perspectives to expand critical awareness of her oeuvre, this volume documents a wide range of works and includes essays by leading art scholar Thomas McEvilley, Canadian art critic Jim Drobnick and Buffalo-based media artist Caroline Koebel. . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Thomas McEvilley, Jim Drobnick, Caroline Koebel. Pbk, 10.75 x 8 in. / 96 pgs / 89 clr / 16 b&w / 2 duotone. Publication Date: 2/1/2008 List Price: US $29.95

  Walther König, Köln Eva Schlegel: L.A. Women Over six months living and working in Los Angeles, Eva Schlegel photographed and interviewed 40 women artists and architects for this book. She investigated their studios, houses, colleagues, models, manuscripts and drawings, and in the process saw an image of their environment, their community, their generation, emerge. Including biographical and bibliographical indexes. . . . . [see book details]

  Essays by Robert Fleck, Marie Therese Harnoncourt, Brigitte Huck, Andrea Lenardin, Markus Mittringer, Peter Noever, Martin Prinzhorn and Annette Südbeck. Paperback, 8.75 x 11.25 in. / 320 pgs / illustrated throughout. Publication Date: 3/1/2006 List Price: US $50.00

  The Museum of Modern Art, New York Cindy Sherman: The Complete Untitled Film Stills Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Stills, a series of 69 black-and-white photographs created between 1977 and 1980, is widely seen as one of the most original and influential achievements in recent art. Witty, provocative and searching, this lively catalogue of female roles inspired by the movies crystallizes widespread concerns in our culture, examining the ways we shape our personal identities and the role of the mass media in our lives. Sherman began making these pictures in 1977 when she was 23 years old. The first six were an experiment: fan-magazine glimpses into the life (or roles) of an imaginary blond actress, played by Sherman herself. The photographs look like movie stills--or perhaps publicity pix--purporting to catch the blond bombshell in unguarded moments at home. The protagonist is shown preening in the kitchen and lounging in the bedroom. Onto something big, Sherman tried other characters in other roles: the chic starlet at her . . . . [see book details]

  Essays by Peter Galassi and Cindy Sherman. Hardcover, 9.5 x 11.25 in. / 164 pgs / 69 duotone. Publication Date: 10/2/2003 List Price: US $45.00

  JRP|Ringier Linder: Works 1976-2006 Linder Sterling's work had its first exposure in the punk fanzine The Secret Public and as art for the sleeve of the Buzzcocks' first single, "Orgasm Addict." Soon she had her own band, Ludus, founded with Ian Divine. Her visuals and her performances have remained legendary in the musical world--for example, a costume consisting of raw meat and a black vibrator, worn for a special evening at the Hacienda--but these formative contributions to the aesthetics of punk and its offshoots have only recently received wider recognition. With no clear academic career path, without institutional or curatorial support, Linder has continued to make multidisciplinary work, work that has led observers to call her the missing link between Yoko Ono and Tracey Emin. This first book, a rediscovery and a debut at once, includes contributions from writers and cultural figures including Philip Hoare, Jon Savage, Andrew Renton, Lynne Tillman, Paul Bailey and Morrissey. . . . . [see book details]

  Essays by Philip Hoare, Morrissey, Jon Savage, Andrew Renton and Lynne Tillman. Hardcover, 11 x 10.75 in. / 144 pgs / 60 color and 60 b&w. Publication Date: 8/15/2006 List Price: US $70.00