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Modern women : women artists at the Museum of Modern Art / edited by Cornelia H. Butler and Alexandra Schwartz ; with essays by Esther Adler ... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : Museum of Modern Art : Distributed in the United States and Canada by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, c2010.Description: 528 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 9780870707711
  • 087070771X
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 709.040082 22
  • 704.042 22
LOC classification:
  • N8354 .M63 2010
Contents:
Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry -- The feminist present : women artists at MoMA / Cornelia Butler -- The missing future : MoMA and modern women / Griselda Pollock -- "Float the boat!" : finding a place for feminism in the museum / Aruna D'Souza -- Early modern. Julia Margaret Cameron / Susan Kismaric ; KaÌthe Kollwitz / Sarah Suzuki ; Lillian Gish / Jenny He ; Sonia Delaunay-Terk / Jodi Hauptman ; Asta Nielsen / Jytte Jensen ; Georgia O'Keeffe / Anne Umland ; Sybil Andrews / Judith B. Hecker ; Frida Kahlo / Anne Umland ; Women on paper / Carol Armstrong ; Crossing the line : Frances Benjamin Johnston and Gertrude KaÌsebier as professionals and artists / Sarah Hermanson Meister ; Women artists and the Russian avant-garde book, 1912-1934 / Starr Figura ; A collective and its individuals : the Bauhaus and its women / Ta'i Smith ; Domestic reform and European modern architecture : Charlotte Perriand, Grete Lihotzky, and Elizabeth Denby / Mary McLeod ; Women and photography between feminism's "waves" / Sally Stein -- With, or without you : the ghosts of modern architecture / Beatriz Colomina -- Midcentury. Ida Lupino / Anne Morra ; Elizabeth Catlett / Emily Talbot ; Agnes Martin / Romy Silver ; Lee Bontecou / Lilian Tone ; Anne Truitt / Samantha Friedman ; Bridget Riley / Jennifer Field ; Eva Hesse / Ann Temkin ; Diane Arbus / Susan Kismaric ; Denise Scott Brown, Lella Vignelli / Pat Kirkham and Yenna Chan ; AgneÌs Varda : Laurence Kardish ; Louise Bourgeois / Deborah Wye ; Women, MoMA, and midcentury design / Juliet Kinchin ; Maya Deren's legacy / Sally Berger ; Abstraction, organism, apparatus : notes on the penetrable structure in the work of Lygia Clark, Gego, and Mira Schendel / Luis PeÌrez-Oramas ; Performativity in the work of female Japanese artists in the 1950s-1960s and the 1990s / Yuko Hasegawa ; From video to intermedia : a personal history / Barbara London -- Contemporary. Adrian Piper / Esther Adler ; Lynda Benglis / Nora Lawrence ; Hanne Darboven / Christophe Cherix ; Nan Goldin / Eva Respini ; Ana Mendieta / Ester Adler ; Zaha Hadid / Andres Lepik ; Cady Noland / Christian Rattemeyer ; Irma Boom / Paola Antonelli ; Lin Tianmiao / Sarah Suzuki ; Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller / Paulina Pobocha ; Mind, body, sculpture : Alice Aycock, Mary Miss, Jackie Winsor in the 1970s / Alexandra Schwartz ; Fundamental to the image : feminism and art in the 1980s / Johanna Burton ; Riot on the page : thirty years of zines by women / Gretchen L. Wagner ; From face to mask : collage, montage, and assemblage in contemporary portraiture / Roxana Marcoci ; In the wake of the Negress / Huey Copeland ; How to install art as a feminist / Helen Molesworth.
Summary: This text examines the collection of feminist art in the Museum of Modern Art. It features essays presenting a range of generational and cultural perspectives.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry -- The feminist present : women artists at MoMA / Cornelia Butler -- The missing future : MoMA and modern women / Griselda Pollock -- "Float the boat!" : finding a place for feminism in the museum / Aruna D'Souza -- Early modern. Julia Margaret Cameron / Susan Kismaric ; KaÌthe Kollwitz / Sarah Suzuki ; Lillian Gish / Jenny He ; Sonia Delaunay-Terk / Jodi Hauptman ; Asta Nielsen / Jytte Jensen ; Georgia O'Keeffe / Anne Umland ; Sybil Andrews / Judith B. Hecker ; Frida Kahlo / Anne Umland ; Women on paper / Carol Armstrong ; Crossing the line : Frances Benjamin Johnston and Gertrude KaÌsebier as professionals and artists / Sarah Hermanson Meister ; Women artists and the Russian avant-garde book, 1912-1934 / Starr Figura ; A collective and its individuals : the Bauhaus and its women / Ta'i Smith ; Domestic reform and European modern architecture : Charlotte Perriand, Grete Lihotzky, and Elizabeth Denby / Mary McLeod ; Women and photography between feminism's "waves" / Sally Stein -- With, or without you : the ghosts of modern architecture / Beatriz Colomina -- Midcentury. Ida Lupino / Anne Morra ; Elizabeth Catlett / Emily Talbot ; Agnes Martin / Romy Silver ; Lee Bontecou / Lilian Tone ; Anne Truitt / Samantha Friedman ; Bridget Riley / Jennifer Field ; Eva Hesse / Ann Temkin ; Diane Arbus / Susan Kismaric ; Denise Scott Brown, Lella Vignelli / Pat Kirkham and Yenna Chan ; AgneÌs Varda : Laurence Kardish ; Louise Bourgeois / Deborah Wye ; Women, MoMA, and midcentury design / Juliet Kinchin ; Maya Deren's legacy / Sally Berger ; Abstraction, organism, apparatus : notes on the penetrable structure in the work of Lygia Clark, Gego, and Mira Schendel / Luis PeÌrez-Oramas ; Performativity in the work of female Japanese artists in the 1950s-1960s and the 1990s / Yuko Hasegawa ; From video to intermedia : a personal history / Barbara London -- Contemporary. Adrian Piper / Esther Adler ; Lynda Benglis / Nora Lawrence ; Hanne Darboven / Christophe Cherix ; Nan Goldin / Eva Respini ; Ana Mendieta / Ester Adler ; Zaha Hadid / Andres Lepik ; Cady Noland / Christian Rattemeyer ; Irma Boom / Paola Antonelli ; Lin Tianmiao / Sarah Suzuki ; Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller / Paulina Pobocha ; Mind, body, sculpture : Alice Aycock, Mary Miss, Jackie Winsor in the 1970s / Alexandra Schwartz ; Fundamental to the image : feminism and art in the 1980s / Johanna Burton ; Riot on the page : thirty years of zines by women / Gretchen L. Wagner ; From face to mask : collage, montage, and assemblage in contemporary portraiture / Roxana Marcoci ; In the wake of the Negress / Huey Copeland ; How to install art as a feminist / Helen Molesworth.

This text examines the collection of feminist art in the Museum of Modern Art. It features essays presenting a range of generational and cultural perspectives.

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