Overview

This diverse collection of contemporary feminist visual art is now available in a paperback edition. Reframings makes visible what has been for too long nearly invisible: contemporary feminist visual art that represents a remarkable range of perspectives, styles and subject matter. The 45 women who created these works - artists and writers such as Deborah Willis, Carrie Mae Weems, Nan Goldin and Carm Little Turtle - are connected by a belief that images are political and that today's feminist concerns cannot be separated from such issues as ethnicity, class, age and sexuality. They share a consciousness that historically women have been framed and can now be reframed .

Full Product Details

Author:   Diane Neumaier ,  Anne Wilkes Tucker
Publisher:   Temple University Press,U.S.
Imprint:   Temple University Press,U.S.
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 20.30cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   1.057kg
ISBN:  

9781566393324

ISBN 10:   1566393329
Pages:   319
Publication Date:   01 October 1995
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

CONTENTS Anne Wilkes Tucker Foreword Diane Neumaier Acknowledgments Diane Neumaier Introduction Gendering Space Artworks Barbara Kruger Recent Public Works Marilyn Nance from African American Spirit Anne Nogle from WWII American and Soviet Women Pilots Kaucyila Brooke from Making the Most of Your Backyard: The Story Behind and Ideal Beauty Sherry Millner Voyeurism and Its Discontents Carol Simon Rosenblatt Is This How I Look? Essay Lucy R. Lippard Undertones: Ten Cultural Landscapes Domestic Production / Reproduction / Resistance Artworks Linda Brooks from between the birthdays Gail S. Rebhan from The Family Tapes Nancy Barton from Live and Let Die Clarissa Sligh from Reframing the Past Susan Meiselas from Archiving Abuse S. A. Bachman from It's All There in Black and White Essay Deborah Willis Women's Stories / Women's Photographs Identity Formations Artworks Sarah Hart from Valley Girls: The Construction of Feminine Identity in Consumer Culture Leigh Kane from A Legacy of Restraint Adrian Piper from Decide Who You Are Lorna Simpson Three Works Diane Tani Hard Glance: Asian American Image and Identity Essay Theresa Harlan As in Her Vision: Native American Women Photographers Postcolonial Legacies Artworks Martha Rosler from Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful Esther Parada Type/Cast: (not the typical) portrait of a revolutionary Yong Soon Min deColonization Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie from Native Programming Pat Ward Williams Two Installations Essay Julia Ballerini Odella/Carlota Rationalizing and Realizing the Body Artworks Martha Casanave Untitled Pinhole Photographs Linn Underhill from Claiming the Gaze Ann Meredith from The Global Face of AIDS: Photographs of Women Jin Lee from Untitled Heads Carla Williams from How to Read Character Dorit Cypis from X-Rayed (Altered) Essay Moira Roth A Meditation on Bearing / Baring the Body Sex and Anxiety Artworks Connie Hatch from The DeSublimation of Romance Carrie Mae Weems Untitled from Kitchen Table Series Tamarra Kaida from Tremors from the Faultline Cindy Sherman Untitled Hinda Schuman from Dear Shirley Nan Goldin from The Other Side Essay Catherine Lord This is Not a Fairy Tale: A Middle-aged Female Pervert (White) in the Era of Multiculturalism Crossing Over: Reimagining and Reimaging Artworks Laura Aguilar from Latina Lesbians Margaret Stratton Justice on TV, from A Guide to the Wasteland Carm Little Turtle from Earthman Series Catherine Opie from Being and Having Coreen Simpson from Aboutface Essay Valerie Soe Turning the Tables: Three Asian American Artists Representing Representation Artworks Ann Fessler Ancient History / Recent History Betty Lee from Contemplation of the Journey Home Deborah Bright The Management of Desire Susan Jahoda from Theatres of Madness Mary Kelly from Corpus Essay Abigail Solomon-Godeau Representing Women: The Politics of Self-Representation Appendixes About the Photographic Images About the Artists About the Critics List of Essay Illustrations

Reviews

Reframings makes a tremendous contribution to the field of photography, art, and feminist theory. There is a definite need to reflect on the representation of women through the eyes of feminist artists and critics and probe issues in new and provocative ways-this book does just that. The multiple perspectives and voices of these women ensure an incredibly rich and diverse analysis of what is 'American' and what is 'feminism.' --Constance Wolf, Associate Director, Whitney Museum of American Art This path breaking book unmasks a key artist movement long neglected by the photography establishment: the canonbusting contribution of feminist photographers over the past decade. Besides providing a comprehensive look at the seldom seen work of over 30 artists, this volume constitutes a major intervention into the discourse of photography criticism. Diane Neumaier and her stellar cast of critics and artists supply the missing pieces in the puzzle of postmodernism. --Brian Wallis, contributing editor, Art in America This is an ambitious, exceptional book in its scope, breadth, and inclusiveness... Neumaier does not shy away from the difficult questions that conflicting interpretations present. Instead she embraces a diversity of opinion and, at times, conflicting points of view to explore a wide range of American feminist issues and experiences. --Choice Providing visibility to feminist photographers and theorists, and emphasizing the interrelation of the two, Reframings expands the parameters of feminist discourse, while at the same time collecting a canon to which scholars might refer in the future. --afterimage

Author Information

Diane Neumaier is Associate Professor of Visual Arts at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University.

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