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M/E/A/N/I/N/G : an anthology of artists' writings, theory, and criticism / edited by Susan Bee & Mira Schor.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2000.Edition: 2nd edDescription: 493 pagesISBN:
  • 9780822325666
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Contents:
"Post-Feminism" : a remasculinization of culture? / Amelia Jones -- Appropriated sexuality / Mira Schor -- Why we need "bad girls" rather than "good" ones! / Corinne Robins -- Letter on good girls, bad girls, and bad boys / Barbara Pollack -- Conversation on censorship with Carolee Schneemann / Aviva Rahmani -- Aesthetic and postmenopausal pleasures / Joanna Frueh -- Just a sketch / Laura Cottingham -- Conversation on lesbian subjectivity and painting with Deborah Kass / Patricia Cronin -- Monstrous domesticity / Faith Wilding -- For M/E/A/N/I/N/G / Charles Bernstein -- Figure/ground / Mira Schor -- Critic is / Marcia Hafif -- Questions of art / Lucio Pozzi -- Some remarks on racism in the American arts / Daryl Chin -- Success of failure / Joel Fisher -- Visual pleasure : a feminist perspective / Johanna Drucker -- "I don't take voice mail" / Charles Bernstein -- On authenticity and meaning / Arakawa ... [et al.] -- Contemporary views on racism in the arts / Emma Amos ... [et al.] -- Over time : a forum on art making / Rudolf Baranik ... [et al.] -- On motherhood, art, and apple pie / Emma Amos ... [et al.] -- Working conditions : a forum on art and everyday life by younger artists / Lisa Hoke ... [et al.] -- On creativity and community / Jackie Brookner ... [et al.] -- Mother baseball / Vanalyne Green -- Bats / Tom Knechtel -- Discovered uncovered / Nancy Spero -- Running on empty : an artist's life in New York / Susan Bee -- Reorganized meditations on mnemonic threshold / Joseph Nechvatal -- Critic and the hare : meditations on the death of my rabbit / Ann McCoy -- September 21, 1989 / Richard Tuttle -- Alison Knowles : an interview / Aviva Rahmani -- Media baptisms / David Reed -- Florine Stettheimer : eccentric power, invisible tradition / Pamela Wye -- Cartoons of the self : portrait of the artist as a young murderer : Art Spiegelman's Maus / Nancy K. Miller -- Nancy Spero : speaking in tongues / Pamela Wye -- Muse begets crone : on Leonora Carrin gton / Whitney Chadwick -- Painting after painting : the paintings of Susan Bee / Misko Suvakovic -- When the stars threw down their spears : an interview with Thomas McEvilley / Dominique Nahas.
Summary: M/E/A/N/I/N/G brings together essays and commentary by over a hundred artists, critics, and poets, culled from the art magazine of the same name. The editors-artists Susan Bee and Mira Schor-have selected the liveliest and most provocative pieces from the maverick magazine that bucked commercial gallery interests and media hype during its ten-year tenure (1986-96) to explore visual pleasure with a culturally activist edge. With its emphasis on artists' perspectives of aesthetic and social issues, this anthology provides a unique opportunity to enter into the fray of the most hotly contested art issues of the past few decades: the visibility of women artists, sexuality and the arts, censorship, art world racism, the legacies of modernism, artists as mothers, visual art in the digital age, and the rewards and toils of a lifelong career in art. The stellar cast of contributing artists and art writers includes Nancy Spero, Richard Tuttle, David Humphrey, Thomas McEvilley, Laura Cottingham, Johanna Drucker, David Reed, Carolee Schneemann, Whitney Chadwick, Robert Storr, Leon Golub, Charles Bernstein, and Alison Knowles. This compelling and theoretically savvy collection will be of interest to artists, art historians, critics, and a general audience interested in the views of practicing artists.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Post-Feminism" : a remasculinization of culture? / Amelia Jones -- Appropriated sexuality / Mira Schor -- Why we need "bad girls" rather than "good" ones! / Corinne Robins -- Letter on good girls, bad girls, and bad boys / Barbara Pollack -- Conversation on censorship with Carolee Schneemann / Aviva Rahmani -- Aesthetic and postmenopausal pleasures / Joanna Frueh -- Just a sketch / Laura Cottingham -- Conversation on lesbian subjectivity and painting with Deborah Kass / Patricia Cronin -- Monstrous domesticity / Faith Wilding -- For M/E/A/N/I/N/G / Charles Bernstein -- Figure/ground / Mira Schor -- Critic is / Marcia Hafif -- Questions of art / Lucio Pozzi -- Some remarks on racism in the American arts / Daryl Chin -- Success of failure / Joel Fisher -- Visual pleasure : a feminist perspective / Johanna Drucker -- "I don't take voice mail" / Charles Bernstein -- On authenticity and meaning / Arakawa ... [et al.] -- Contemporary views on racism in the arts / Emma Amos ... [et al.] -- Over time : a forum on art making / Rudolf Baranik ... [et al.] -- On motherhood, art, and apple pie / Emma Amos ... [et al.] -- Working conditions : a forum on art and everyday life by younger artists / Lisa Hoke ... [et al.] -- On creativity and community / Jackie Brookner ... [et al.] -- Mother baseball / Vanalyne Green -- Bats / Tom Knechtel -- Discovered uncovered / Nancy Spero -- Running on empty : an artist's life in New York / Susan Bee -- Reorganized meditations on mnemonic threshold / Joseph Nechvatal -- Critic and the hare : meditations on the death of my rabbit / Ann McCoy -- September 21, 1989 / Richard Tuttle -- Alison Knowles : an interview / Aviva Rahmani -- Media baptisms / David Reed -- Florine Stettheimer : eccentric power, invisible tradition / Pamela Wye -- Cartoons of the self : portrait of the artist as a young murderer : Art Spiegelman's Maus / Nancy K. Miller -- Nancy Spero : speaking in tongues / Pamela Wye -- Muse begets crone : on Leonora Carrin gton / Whitney Chadwick -- Painting after painting : the paintings of Susan Bee / Misko Suvakovic -- When the stars threw down their spears : an interview with Thomas McEvilley / Dominique Nahas.

M/E/A/N/I/N/G brings together essays and commentary by over a hundred artists, critics, and poets, culled from the art magazine of the same name. The editors-artists Susan Bee and Mira Schor-have selected the liveliest and most provocative pieces from the maverick magazine that bucked commercial gallery interests and media hype during its ten-year tenure (1986-96) to explore visual pleasure with a culturally activist edge. With its emphasis on artists' perspectives of aesthetic and social issues, this anthology provides a unique opportunity to enter into the fray of the most hotly contested art issues of the past few decades: the visibility of women artists, sexuality and the arts, censorship, art world racism, the legacies of modernism, artists as mothers, visual art in the digital age, and the rewards and toils of a lifelong career in art. The stellar cast of contributing artists and art writers includes Nancy Spero, Richard Tuttle, David Humphrey, Thomas McEvilley, Laura Cottingham, Johanna Drucker, David Reed, Carolee Schneemann, Whitney Chadwick, Robert Storr, Leon Golub, Charles Bernstein, and Alison Knowles. This compelling and theoretically savvy collection will be of interest to artists, art historians, critics, and a general audience interested in the views of practicing artists.