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charmaine toh

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Apr 26, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/26/97
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hi, i'm looking for stuff on female aesthetics and was wondering if
anyone had any views on it since there are so few books on the subject.
is there a female aesthetic and if so, how have artists approached it in
this century. essentialism and pyschoanalysis seems to be the only
topics i can find.

thanks,
charmaine

GD

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charmaine toh <ch...@yoyo.monash.edu.au> wrote in article
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Hi There

I'm surprised you say there are so few books on the subject. I think
there's tons. Here's a few I know of that might be useful to you.

Raven, Langer and Freuh (eds.) FEMINIST ART CRITICISM: AN ANTHOLOGY. UMI
Research Press, 1988.

Raven, Langer and Freuh (eds.) NEW FEMINIST CRITICISM: ART, IDENTITY,
ACTION. Icon Editions, 1991.

Tregobov, Rhea (ed) WORK IN PROGRESS: BUILDING FEMINIST CULTURE. The
Women's Press, Toronto, 1987.

Collins and Lindner (eds.) WRITING ON THE WALL: WOMEN WRITERS ON WOMEN
ARTISTS. Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 1993.

Pollock, Griselda. VISION AND DIFFERENCE. Routledge, London, 1988.

Dubreuil-Blondin, Nicole. "Feminism and Modernism: Paradoxes" in MODERNISM
AND MODERNITY: THE VANCOUVER CONFERENCE PAPERS. eds. Benjamin Buchloh,
Serge Guilbaut, David Solkin, Halifax: NSCAD Press, 1983.

Nochlin, Linda. "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" ARTNews,
January 1971, pp. 23-39, 67-70.

Lippard, Lucy. FROM THE CENTER. ny: 1976.

Rose, Jacqueline. "Sexuality and Vision: Some Questions" in VISION AND
VISUALITY ed. Hal Foster. Dia Art Foundation Discussions in Contemporary
Culture, Bay Press, 1988.

You'll find essays on feminist aesthetics in these Anthologies:

Wallis, Brian. (ed) ART AFTER MODERNISM: RETHINKING REPRESENTATION. New
Museum of Contemporary Art, 1984.

Harrison and Wood. (eds) ART IN THEORY 1900-1990: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CHANGING
IDEAS. Blackwell, 1992.

Bradley and Johnstone. (eds.) SIGHTLINES. Artexte editions, 1994.

Calo, Carole Gold. (ed) WRITINGS ABOUT ART. Prentice Hall, 1994.

Berland, Straw and Tomas. (eds) THEORY RULES: ART AS THEORY/THEORY AND ART.
YYZ bOOKS, 1996.

Ross, Stephen David. (ed) ART AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF
AESTHETIC THEORY. SUNY, 1994. third edition.

You'll find Essays and Sections on Feminist Aesthetic and Cultural Theory
in just about any General Cultural Theory Anthology.

Good Luck!

Greg D.

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