Girls! Girls! Girls! : in contemporary art / edited by Catherine Grant and Lori Waxman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Waxman, Lori.

Grant, Catherine (Catherine Mary)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Girls in art.

Women artists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol [England] ; Chicago : Intellect, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Since the 1990's, women artists have led the contemporary art world in the creation of art depicting female adolescence, producing challenging, critically debated, and avidly collected artworks that are driving the current and momentous shift in the perception of women in art. Girls! Girls! Girls! presents essays from established and up-and-coming scholars who 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 artists

Contents:

Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Girl in Contemporary Art; Through the Looking-Glass with Heart-Shaped Sunglasses: Searching for Alice and Lolita in Contemporary Representations of Girls; Dial 'P' For Panties: Narrative Photography in the 1990's (with a New Afterword by the Author); Girlish Games: Playfulness and 'Drawingness' in the Work of Francesca Woodman and Lucy Gunning; Marlene McCarty's Murder Girls; Haunted: Writing with the Girl; Oh Mother Where art Thou? Sue de Beer's Hysterical Orphan Girls

Mi-girl. Mi-kick, Mi-fire, Mi-sin, Mi-soul, MI-WA: A Fairy Tale in Blue Baby Butches and Reluctant Lolitas: Collier Schorr and Hellen van Meene; Author Biographies; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-283-16286-5

9786613162861

1-84150-528-5

OCLC:

729166884