Art & Gender Books

New and Published Books

1. New Games

   Postmodernism After Contemporary Art

   By Pamela M. Lee

   Series: Theories of Modernism and Postmodernism in the Visual Arts

   Pamela M. Lee’s New Games revisits postmodernism in light of art history's more recent embrace of "the contemporary." What can the theories and practices associated with postmodernism tell us about the obsession with the contemporary in both the academy and the art world? In looking at work by Dara...

   Published November 15th 2012 by Routledge
2. New Feminist Discourses

   Critical Essays on Theories and Texts

   Edited by Isobel Armstrong

   Series: RLE: Women, Feminism and Literature

   This collection of new feminist essays represents the work of young critics researching and teaching in British Universities. Aiming to set the agenda for feminist criticism in the nineties, the essays debate themes crucial to the development of feminist thought: among them, the problems of...

   Published June 4th 2012 by Routledge
3. Seeing Differently

   A History and Theory of Identification and the Visual Arts

   By Amelia Jones

   Seeing Differently offers a history and theory of ideas about identity in relation to visual arts discourses and practices in Euro-American culture, from early modern beliefs that art is an expression of an individual, the painted image a "world picture" expressing a comprehensive and coherent...

   Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Black Female Body in American Literature and Art

   Performing Identity

   By Caroline Brown

   Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

   This book examines how African-American writers and visual artists interweave icon and inscription in order to re-present the black female body, traditionally rendered alien and inarticulate within Western discursive and visual systems. Brown considers how the writings of Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones,...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
5. Entering the Picture

   Judy Chicago, The Fresno Feminist Art Program, and the Collective Visions of Women Artists

   Edited by Jill Fields

   Series: New Directions in American History

   In 1970, Judy Chicago and fifteen students founded the groundbreaking Feminist Art Program (FAP) at Fresno State. Drawing upon the consciousness-raising techniques of the women's liberation movement, they created shocking new art forms depicting female experiences. Collaborative work and...

   Published September 13th 2011 by Routledge
6. Representing the Black Female Subject in Western Art

   By Charmaine A. Nelson

   Series: Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora

   This book offers the first concentrated examination of the representation of the black female subject in Western art through the lenses of race/color and sex/gender. Charmaine A. Nelson poses critical questions about the contexts of production, the problems of representation, the pathways of...

   Published June 7th 2010 by Routledge
7. Jewish Identities in American Feminist Art

   Ghosts of Ethnicity

   By Lisa E. Bloom

   Featuring sixty-seven illustrations, and providing an important reckoning and visualization of the previously hidden Jewish 'ghosts' within US art, Jewish Identities in American Feminist Art addresses the veiled role of Jewishness in the understanding of feminist art in the...

   Published May 3rd 2006 by Routledge
8. Pregnant Pictures

   By Sandra Matthews, Laura Wexler

   In this dazzling collection of over 200 photos of pregnant women taken from art libraries, childbirth manuals, maternity ads, contemporary art, and personal albums, the authors explore the paradox between image and reality. The photos illuminate how society creates feminine roles through the...

   Published July 25th 2000 by Routledge
9. Seeing Through the Seventies

   Essays on Feminism and Art

   By Laura Cottingham

   In recent years, Laura Cottingham has emerged as one of the most visible feminist critics of the so-called post-feminist generation. Following a social-political approach to art history and criticism that accepts visual culture as part of a larger social reality, Cottingham's writings investigate...

   Published June 29th 2000 by Routledge
10. Double Exposures

    The Practice of Cultural Analysis

    By Mieke Bal

    A feminist literary theorist, specialist in Rembrandt, and a scholar with a knack for reading Old Testament stories, Mieke Bal weaves a tapestry of signs and meanings that enrich our senses. Her subject is the act of showing, the gesture of exposing to view. In a museum, for example, the object is...

    Published June 3rd 1996 by Routledge