Feminist Art Criticism

An Anthology

Arlene Raven

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9780429980121
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: History of Art

From the Preface: "The essays in Feminist Art Criticism are theoretical, and we selected them for several reasons. First, they show a diversity of concerns. These include spirituality, sexuality, the representation of women in art, the necessary inter-relationship of theory and action, women as artmakers, ethnicity, language itself, so-called postfeminism and critiques of hte art world, the discipline of art history and the practice of art criticism. Second, the contributors' work has not been either widely disseminated or readily available. Third, the essays, especially arranged as they are (chronologically), demonstrate a continuous feminist discourse in art from the early 1970s through the present, a discourse that is neither monolithic nor intellectually trendy but that rather exhibits many elements, the polemical, Marxist, lyrical, and poststructuralist being only a few."

Index

Abramson, Charles, 207

Abstract-Expressionism, 37, 38

Akerman, Chantai, 136, 137, 145, 149, 151n9

Allegory, 9, 28

Allentuck, Marcia, 29, 55n8

Anguissola, Sofonisba, 175

Animais as art, 7, 9

Antonioni, Michelangelo, 137

Arbus, Diane, 6

Archetypes, 37; black Goddess, 83; Goddess consciousness, 71, 72, 75, 82, 86; Great Goddess, 71-72, 74, 75, 76, 81, 82, 83, 84-86, 101; masculine, 71

Archuleta-Sagel, Teresa, 195-96

Arredondo, Alicia, 196

Art, 22; allegory, 28; audience, 25, 42, 45, 53, 96, 112, 115; depiction of women, 23, 46, 59-60, 62, 87, 96; distortions, 23, 68; erotic, 25-26, 27, 28, 29, 33, 47, 59-60, 69; feminism, 24, 25, 27, 28, 41, 49, 159, 169; “high, ” 23, 28, 35, 49, 69; “high” vs “low, ” 32, 33, 39, 44, 156, 169; male/female, 156; pornography, 47, 56n20, sexist content, 37, 60, 62, 68, social reality, 23, 25, 35, 36, 67, 68, traditional vs feminist, 87. See also Art, feminist; Art, psychological aspects; Art, sociopolitical aspects, Eroticism; Feminism

Art, feminist, xi-xn, 1-2, 6-7, 42-43, 88-89, 90, 91, 92, 94, 109nl, 169, 230-31, alchemy, 72, 73, 86; archetypal, 16, 18, attribution problems, 170-71, 172, 174-75, 177, 180; authority, 68, 69; blacks, 207-8, 209-10, 213, 215, 223-24; characteristics, 20; Chicanas, 192—93, 194, 195; disappearance of works, 170-71, Earth-alchemy, 72, 76, 84, 86; exhibits, 20, 25, female artists, 93-94, 10...