The female gaze : women artists making their world

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The female gaze : women artists making their world

edited by Robert Cozzolino ; with contributions by Glenn Adamson ... [et al.]

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2012

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Exhibition catalogue

Issued in connection with an exhibition held Nov. 17, 2012-Apr. 7, 2013, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-330)

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Description

The Linda Lee Alter Collection of Art by Women is a collection at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) of approximately 400 works of art including paintings, photographs, drawings, watercolours, pastels, collage, prints, fabric pieces, ceramics, bronze, wood, and sculpture in other media by over 150 artists. The collection includes works by artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Joan Brown, Viola Frey, Ana Mendieta, Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson, Christina Ramberg, Betye Saar, Kiki Smith, Nancy Spero, and Beatrice Wood among many others. This accessibly written, fully illustrated publication includes ten new essays on women artists since the 1920s. The chief aim is to document and celebrate this unprecedented gift in PAFA's history. The book breaks new ground in scholarship on its topics, takes risks with interpretation, and uses the broad themes and wide array of artists represented in the collection as a starting point for reflections on the history of the feminist movement, individual artists, and regional identities. Artists from the collection have a strong voice throughout the publication through interviews, writings, and the incorporation of archival materials. The Linda Lee Alter Collection catalogue will be the lasting document of the collection and will accompany the travelling version of the exhibition, which is projected to travel to four US venues in 2013 and 2014.

Table of Contents

  • Contents: Director's Foreword - Harry Philbrick, PAFA Museum Director
  • Personal Note - David R. Brigham, PAFA President
  • Introduction and Acknowledgements - Robert Cozzolino, Senior Curator and Curator of Modern Art, PAFA
  • A Vision of Visibility - Linda Lee Alter in Conversation with Robert Cozzolino
  • Expanded Horizon: Female Artists at the Pennsylvania Academy During the Course of the Nineteenth-Century - Anna Havemann, University of Potsdam
  • Evenings: Entertaining Women in the Circles of American Modernism - Janine Mileaf, Director, The Arts Club of Chicago
  • Imagining History, Memory and the Raced and Gendered Body: the Legacy of Elizabeth Catlett - Melanie Anne Herzog, Edgewood College, Madison, WI
  • A State of Independance in Chicago - Robert Cozzolino
  • Feminism, Identity, and Self-Portraiture Re-imagined - Anna C. Chave, Professor of Art History at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York
  • Sisters Doin' It for Themselves: Collaborative Practice in the Linda Lee Alter Collection - Joanna Gardner-Huggett, Associate Professor of Art History, DePaul University
  • Philadelphia Ficus and Feminism in 1974 - Robert Cozzolino
  • Feminism in the Bay Area: Joan Brown and Viola Frey - Jodi Throckmorton Associate Curator at the San Jose Museum of Art
  • "Women's Work" Revisited: Craft Traditions in Contemporary Art - Glenn Adamson, Deputy Head of Research and Head of Graduate Studies at the Victoria and Albert Museum
  • We Came to America - Michele Wallace, Professor of English, Women's Studies and Film Studies, CUNY Graduate Center, New York
  • Biographies of the Artists - Mey-Yen Moriuchi, doctoral candidate, Bryn Mawr College
  • The Linda Lee Alter Collection of Art by Women.

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