Girls! girls! girls! in contemporary art
Girls! girls! girls! in contemporary art
Girls in contemporary art.
edited by Catherine Grant and Lori Waxman.
- Bristol, UK : Intellect, 2011.
- x, 188 pages, [32] pages of plates : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction : The girl in contemporary art / Catherine Grant and Lori Waxman -- Through the looking-glass with heart-shaped sunglasses : searching for Alice and Lolita in contemporary representations of girls / Lori Waxman -- Dial "P" for panties : narrative photography in the 1990s (with a new afterword by the author) / Lucy Soutter -- Girlish games : playfulness and 'drawingness' in the work of Francesca Woodman and Lucy Gunning / Harriet Riches -- Marlene McCarty's Murder girls / Maud Lavin -- Haunted : writing with the girl / Taru Elfving -- Oh mother where art thou? : Sue de Beer's hysterial orphan girls / Kate Random Love -- Mi-girl, Mi-kick, Mi-fire, Mi-sin, Mi-soul, MI-WA : a fairy tale in blue / Carol Mavor -- Baby butches and reluctant Lolitas : Collier Schorr and Hellen van Meene / Catherine Grant.
Essays address a variety of themes including narcissism, nostalgia, post-feminism, and fantasy with the goal of approaching the overarching question of why women artists are turning in such numbers to the subject of girls -- and what these artistic explorations signify. Artists discussed include Anna Gaskell, Marlene McCarty, Sue de Beer, Miwa Yanagi, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Collier Schorr and more.
9781841503486
Girls in art.
Women artists.
Arts, Modern--Themes, motives.--21st century
NX 652.G55 / .G443 2011
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction : The girl in contemporary art / Catherine Grant and Lori Waxman -- Through the looking-glass with heart-shaped sunglasses : searching for Alice and Lolita in contemporary representations of girls / Lori Waxman -- Dial "P" for panties : narrative photography in the 1990s (with a new afterword by the author) / Lucy Soutter -- Girlish games : playfulness and 'drawingness' in the work of Francesca Woodman and Lucy Gunning / Harriet Riches -- Marlene McCarty's Murder girls / Maud Lavin -- Haunted : writing with the girl / Taru Elfving -- Oh mother where art thou? : Sue de Beer's hysterial orphan girls / Kate Random Love -- Mi-girl, Mi-kick, Mi-fire, Mi-sin, Mi-soul, MI-WA : a fairy tale in blue / Carol Mavor -- Baby butches and reluctant Lolitas : Collier Schorr and Hellen van Meene / Catherine Grant.
Essays address a variety of themes including narcissism, nostalgia, post-feminism, and fantasy with the goal of approaching the overarching question of why women artists are turning in such numbers to the subject of girls -- and what these artistic explorations signify. Artists discussed include Anna Gaskell, Marlene McCarty, Sue de Beer, Miwa Yanagi, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Collier Schorr and more.
9781841503486
Girls in art.
Women artists.
Arts, Modern--Themes, motives.--21st century
NX 652.G55 / .G443 2011
