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.
- Contents
- M/E/A/N/I/N/G: Feminism, Theory, and Art Practice
- Introduction
- I / FEMINISM AND ART
- ‘‘Post-Feminism’’—A Remasculinization of Culture?
- Appropriated Sexuality
- Why We Need ‘‘Bad Girls’’ Rather Than ‘‘Good’’ Ones!
- Letter on Good Girls, Bad Girls, and Bad Boys Barbara Pollack
- A Conversation on Censorship with Carolee Schneemann
- Aesthetic and Postmenopausal Pleasures
- just a sketch . . .
- A Conversation on Lesbian Subjectivity and Painting with Deborah Kass
- Monstrous Domesticity
- II / THE POLITICS OF MEANING AND REPRESENTATION
- For M/E/A/N/I/N/G
- Figure/Ground
- The Critic Is (?) Artist
- 12 Questions of Art
- Some Remarks on Racism in the American Arts
- The Success of Failure
- Visual Pleasure: A Feminist Perspective
- ‘‘I Don’t Take Voice Mail’’
- III / SELECTIONS FROM THE FORUMS
- On Authenticity and Meaning
- Contemporary Views on Racism in the Arts
- Over Time: A Forum on Art Making
- On Motherhood, Art, and Apple Pie
- Working Conditions: A Forum on Art and Everyday Life by Younger Artists
- On Creativity and Community
- IV / ARTISTS’ MUSINGS
- Mother Baseball
- Bats
- The Discovered Uncovered
- Running on Empty: An Artist’s Life in New York
- Reorganized Meditations on Mnemonic Threshold
- The Critic and the Hare: Meditations on the Death of My Rabbit
- September 21, 1989
- Alison Knowles: An Interview
- Media Baptisms
- V / ARTISTS IN PERSPECTIVE
- Florine Stettheimer: Eccentric Power, Invisible Tradition
- Cartoons of the Self: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Murderer—Art
- Nancy Spero: Speaking in Tongues
- Muse Begets Crone: On Leonora Carrington
- Painting after Painting: The Paintings of Susan Bee
- When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears: An Interview with Thomas McEvilley
- Appendix: Contents of M/E/A/N/I/N/G
- Contributors
- Index
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