Witness to Her Art : Art and Writings by Adrian Piper, Mona Hatoum, Cady Noland, Jenny Holzer, Kara Walker, Daniela Rossell and Eau de Cologne

by Anastas, Rhea

• ISBN13: 9781931493550
• ISBN10: 1931493553
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-03-01
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

This radical new study aims to change the way that some of the most influential artists of the past 40 years are seen--all of them women. Emphasizing questions of autonomy, critical intelligence and artistic intention, Witness to Her Artpresents works by Adrian Piper, Mona Hatoum, Cady Noland, Jenny Holzer, Kara Walker, Daniela Rossell and Eau de Cologne, a magazine published by gallerist Monika Spruth. The artworks are accompanied by original writings by the artists, contemporaneous criticism and newly commissioned essays by Pamela Franks, Aruna D'Souza, Johanna Burton, David Levi Strauss, Hamza Walker and Cuauhtemoc Medina. The ambitious works presented and interpreted herein invite us to consider the impact of the feminist revolution across generations while rendering obsolete any stigma associated with shows or catalogues limited to women artists. Taking its lead from Conceptualism, feminism, and from its included artists, Witness to Her Artreaches for art history's capacity as a medium of world-making.

Table of Contents

Circa 1970 : towards a feminist public	p. 27
Nan Goldin's "Witnesses : against our vanishing" : representation, cultural politics and the 1980s	p. 34
Starting out : the center for curatorial studies graduate program	p. 43
That was then : the curator and the collector in 2000	p. 48
Three untitled projects 1969	p. 58
Conceptual rigor and political efficacy, or, the making of Adrian Piper	p. 75
Aspects of the liberal dilemma 1980	p. 83
Adrian Piper : self-healing through meta-art 1987	p. 84
An open letter to Donald Kuspit 1987	p. 89
Measures of distance 1988	p. 100
Measures of difference	p. 107
Notes from a video performance by Mona Hatoum 1980	p. 118
The witness beside herself 1990	p. 120
Towards a metalanguage of evil 1989	p. 126
Towards a metalanguage of evil : notes, bibliography, filmography 1992-93	p. 144
Cady Noland 1990	p. 155
'Metal is a major thing, and a major thing to waste' : interview with Cady Noland 1994	p. 157
Nine sex questions : Cady Noland 2003	p. 160
Eau de Cologne nos. 1-3 1985, 1987, 1989	p. 165
A will to representation : Eau de Cologne, 1985-1993	p. 191
Eau de Cologne 1985	p. 205
Oh ah! The fire! By Mrs. Benway 1985	p. 205
Do women and men really want the same thing? : 1985	p. 207
If you're so successful, why do you feel like a fake? : 1987	p. 209
Interview 1987	p. 210
Eau de Cologne 3 1989	p. 212
Forward : gender and language 1989	p. 212
Hanne Darboven writing time 1989	p. 213
Hanne Darboven interview by Isabelle Graw 1989	p. 214
Another impression of the notion of my body Friederike Pezold : video, drawings and photos 1976	p. 216
Lustmord : Suddeutsche Zeitung Magazin 1993	p. 220
Written in the blood of women : inscription and contagion in Jenny Holzer's Lustmord	p. 239
Selections from Lustmord 1993-95	p. 248
Edition no. 46 1993	p. 250
Kara Walker - Chicago : the renaissance society at the University of Chicago 1997	p. 253
A mind is a terrible thing to waste	p. 273
Cut it out 1997	p. 280
Ricas y famosas 2002	p. 284
The stage and the stereotype : Daniela Rossell's Ricas y famosas	p. 311
Scandal 2002	p. 328
Statement for presentation of Ricas v famosas 2002	p. 331
Private worlds, public delusions 2002	p. 332
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