The deconstructive impulse : women artists reconfigure the signs of power, 1973-1991 / edited by Nancy Princenthal ; essays by Tom McDonough ... [et al.].
New York : Neuberger Museum of Art ; Munich ; New York : DelMonico Books/Prestel, c2011.
Format:
Book
176 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Title Variation:
Women artists reconfigure the signs of power, 1973-1991
Note:
"This publication accompanies the exhibition The Deconstructive Impulse : Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1991, curated by Helaine Posner and Nancy Princenthal ..."--T.p. verso.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Hot and cool : feminist art in practice / Helaine Posner
In theory : postmodernism and polemics / Nancy Princenthal
Feeling things : fetishism and the sex appeal of the inorganic / Tom McDonough
Home alone : "reversal of positions of presentation" and the visual semantics of domesticity / Kristine Stiles
What women want : psychoanalysis and cultural critique / Griselda Pollock.
Summary:
This volume features a diverse group of North American women whose transformative and often provocative work deals with gender, sexual, racial, ethnic and class-based inequalities.