Modern women Women artists at the Museum of Modern Art

Book - 2010

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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Published
New York : Museum of Modern Art : Distributed in the United States and Canada by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers c2010.
Language
English
Other Authors
Cornelia H. Butler (-), Alexandra Schwartz
Physical Description
528 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9780870707711
  • 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 ; Käthe 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 Käsebier 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 ; Agnès 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 Pérez-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.
Review by Choice Review

Richly illustrated in color with expansive captions, this collection of essays is the second major undertaking of the Modern Women's Fund, established at MoMA in 2005 to help promote scholarship on women in the arts. Modern Women is an expert endeavor on the part of 50 scholars that engages the museum's collection and, moreover, bears witness to artistic, research, and curatorial praxis by broadening discourse through reflection and analysis of women as artists, curators, and patrons. Three introductory essays lay the foundation for the remainder of the book, chronologically grouped under three headings ("Early Modern," "Midcentury," and "Contemporary"). Each section delves deeply into analysis of individual artists and extensive topics such as Bauhaus architecture, collaborations, and artistic legacies. Thirty-eight pithy glossary entries (mostly biographical) supplement the text. Embedded bibliographic citations richly add to the discussion and point readers to relevant primary and secondary sources. This investigation of more than 300 women from the late 19th century to the present brings into focus the range of activity from the founding of MoMA to the postfeminist concerns of contemporary artists, scholars, and curators. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. J. Decker Georgetown College

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Review by Library Journal Review

As one picks up this hefty volume, the cover image of an enigmatic woman captures the viewer's interest with a mesmerizing gaze. This is Maya Deren (from her 1943 experimental film), one of the hundreds of women discussed inside. Five years of research have brought forth a richly illustrated book with 48 scholarly essays about women artists (both famous and lesser known) within the Museum of Modern Art's collections. Readers not familiar with the broad range of media that the museum collects will be astonished at the variety of international artistic expressions. Arranged chronologically, the first innovator into modernism we meet is the 19th-century photographer Julia Margaret Cameron. The museum also frankly discusses its history, when feminists demonstrated against it because of its lack of equitable representation. An informative section at the end contains short biographies of influential women behind the scenes at the museum: the three founders, as well as other donors, curators, and administrators. VERDICT This is an important study on two levels: how an institution openly addresses gender issues, and how instrumental women have been in advancing the arts to where they are today.-Anne Marie Lane, Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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