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Martha Wilson sourcebook : 40 years of reconsidering performance, feminism, alternative spaces

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: New York : Independent Curators International, [2011]Description: 256 pages : illustrations (chiefly black and white) ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 9780916365851
  • 0916365859
Other title:
  • 40 years of reconsidering performance, feminism, alternative spaces
  • Forty years of reconsidering performance, feminism, alternative spaces
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • N6537.W548 A4 2011
Contents:
Foreword / Kate Fowle -- Martha Wilson : a woman with a mind of her own / Moira Roth -- Excerpt from The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman (1759-67) / Laurence Sterne -- Excerpt from Tender buttons (1914) / Gertrude Stein -- Excerpt from The second sex (1949, trans. 1953) / Simone de Beauvoir -- "Beauty and the best," Psychology today (March 1972) / Ellen Berscheid and Elaine Walster -- Excerpt from "The spiral of reciprocal perspectives," Interpersonal perception : a theory and a method of research (1966) / R.D. Laing, H. Phillipson, and A.R. Lee -- Excerpt from "Introduction," Writing degree zero (1953, trans. 1967) / Roland Barthes -- Excerpt from The presentation of self in everyday life (1959) / Erving Goffman -- "Seedbed," Avalanche (Fall 1972) / Vito Acconci -- Excerpt from "Why have there been no great women artists?" ARTnews (January 1971) / Linda Nochlin -- A portfolio of models (1974) / Martha Wilson -- c. 7,500 (1974) ; "Making up : role playing and transformation in women's art," Ms. magazine (October 1975) / Lucy R. Lippard -- "Martha Wilson : not taking it at face value," Camera obscura (2001) /
Summary: "Martha Wilson sourcebook is the first in a new publication series that offers a fresh perspective on social, political, and cultural issues inspiring artists' practices. Each compendium is comprised of articles, letters, newspaper cuttings, extracts from books, and images that an artist selects from their own archive and annotates with personal commentaries on the themes that arise. By using this subjective approach as a lens through which to rediscover pivotal debates in art and reconsider seminal texts, as well as to introduce little-known or out-of-print material, the Sourcebook series places emphasis on the histories and theories that have had a formative influence on an artist's thought process"--Page 6.
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Special Collection Special Collection Whitecliffe Library Staff office Special Collection N 6537 WIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Special Collection-Library Use Only 0015612

Includes bibliographical references (page 254) and index.

Foreword / Kate Fowle -- Martha Wilson : a woman with a mind of her own / Moira Roth -- Excerpt from The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman (1759-67) / Laurence Sterne -- Excerpt from Tender buttons (1914) / Gertrude Stein -- Excerpt from The second sex (1949, trans. 1953) / Simone de Beauvoir -- "Beauty and the best," Psychology today (March 1972) / Ellen Berscheid and Elaine Walster -- Excerpt from "The spiral of reciprocal perspectives," Interpersonal perception : a theory and a method of research (1966) / R.D. Laing, H. Phillipson, and A.R. Lee -- Excerpt from "Introduction," Writing degree zero (1953, trans. 1967) / Roland Barthes -- Excerpt from The presentation of self in everyday life (1959) / Erving Goffman -- "Seedbed," Avalanche (Fall 1972) / Vito Acconci -- Excerpt from "Why have there been no great women artists?" ARTnews (January 1971) / Linda Nochlin -- A portfolio of models (1974) / Martha Wilson -- c. 7,500 (1974) ; "Making up : role playing and transformation in women's art," Ms. magazine (October 1975) / Lucy R. Lippard -- "Martha Wilson : not taking it at face value," Camera obscura (2001) /

Jayne Wark -- "Alternative space : artists' periodicals," The print collector's newsletter (September-October 1975) / Howardena Pindell -- From tape 2 "Kitch's last meal (Super-8 film, 1973-77)," More than meat joy : complete performance works and selected writings (1979) / Carolee Schneemann -- "Nancy Spero," Art-rite (Spring 1975) / Nancy Spero -- Truck fuck muck (1975) ; Franklin Furnace opening announcement (1976) / Martha Wilson -- Advertisement for Franklin Furnace archive, Art-rite (Winter 1976-77) -- Excerpt from The Hite report (1976) / Shere Hite -- Excerpt from Our bodies, ourselves : a book by and for women (1973) / The Boston Women's Health Book Collective -- Excerpt from Sex for one (1974) / Betty Dodson -- Excerpt from "In Plato's cave," On photography (1977) / Susan Sontag -- "The Persian poems," Semiotext(e) (1978) / Kathy Acker -- "Dick Higgins and the Something Else Press," R E A L LIFE magazine (October 1979) / Holly O'Grady -- "Per/for/mance, American Performance Festival in Italy : Disband," High performance (Summer 1980) / Linda Frye Burnham -- Excerpt from "Racism in the woman suffrage movement," Women, race, and class (1981) / Angela Y. Davis -- "On the picket-reception line with ladies against women," Heresies : a feminist publication on art and politics (1985) / Virginia Cholesterol (with Mrs. Theodore William Banks) -- "Appropriated sexuality," M/E/A/N/I/N/G (December 1986) / Mira Schor -- "Guerrilla Girls review the Whitney," and "The advantages of being a woman artist," Confessions of the Guerilla Girls (1995) / The Guerilla Girls -- "An NEA timeline (Just the lowlights)," On edge : performance at the end of the twentieth century (2008) / C. Carr -- "Nancy Reagan at the Inauguration," script for performance as Nancy Reagan (1985) / Martha Wilson -- TIME magazine cover (May 16, 1988) -- Letter to the General Accounting Office from Senator Jesse Helms (March 6, 1990) -- "Performance art : (some) theory and (selected) practice at the end of this century," Art journal (Winter 1997) / Martha Wilson -- "A long conversation with Martha Wilson," Franklin Furnace and the spirit of the avant-garde : a history of the future (2011) / Toni Sant -- "Being there : the Tribeca neighborhood of Franklin Furnace," The drama review (Spring 2005) / Alan Moore with Debra Wacks -- "What Franklin Furnace learned from presenting and producing live art on the Internet, from 1996 to now," Leonardo (2005) / Martha Wilson.

"Martha Wilson sourcebook is the first in a new publication series that offers a fresh perspective on social, political, and cultural issues inspiring artists' practices. Each compendium is comprised of articles, letters, newspaper cuttings, extracts from books, and images that an artist selects from their own archive and annotates with personal commentaries on the themes that arise. By using this subjective approach as a lens through which to rediscover pivotal debates in art and reconsider seminal texts, as well as to introduce little-known or out-of-print material, the Sourcebook series places emphasis on the histories and theories that have had a formative influence on an artist's thought process"--Page 6.

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