1st Edition
Seeing Through the Seventies Essays on Feminism and Art
By Laura Cottingham
Copyright 2000
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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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 central tensions currently operative in the production, distribution and evaluation of art,... Read more
1. Shifting Ground: On the Critical Practice of Lucy R. Lippard 2. The Masculine Imperative: High Modern, Postmodern 3. What's so Bad About 'Em? 4. How many bad feminists does it take to change a lightbulb? 5. Are You Experienced? Feminism, Art and the Body Politic 6. Eating from the Dinner Party plates and other myths, metaphors, and moments of lesbian enuciation in feminism and its art movement 7. L.A. Womyn: The Feminist Art Movement in Southern California, 1970-1979 8. Notes on lesbian 9. Considering Claude Cahun
Biography
Laura Cottingham teaches contemporary art and criticism in the College of Art at The Cooper Union and had held visiting appointments at Rutgers University, The School of Visual Arts, and The Royal Academy of Fine Art, Copenhagen. She is also author of lesbians are so chic... and director of the art history video Not For Sale: Feminism and Art in the USA during the 1970s, which premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in May 1998.
