Taking aim at the mostly male bastion of art theory and criticism, Mira Schor brings a maverick perspective and provocative voice to the issues of contemporary painting, gender representation, and feminist art. Writing from her dual perspective of a practicing painter and art critic, Schor’s writing has been widely read over the past fifteen years in Artforum, Art Journal, Heresies, and M/E/A/N/I/N/G, a journal she coedited. Collected here, these essays challenge established hierarchies of the art world of the 1980s and 1990s and document the intellectual and artistic development that have marked Schor’s own progress as a critic.
Bridging the gap between art practice, artwork, and critical theory, Wet includes some of Schor’s most influential essays that have made a significant contribution to debates over essentialism. Articles range from discussions of contemporary women artists Ida Applebroog, Mary Kelly, and the Guerrilla Girls, to "Figure/Ground," an examination of utopian modernism’s fear of the "goo" of painting and femininity. From the provocative "Representations of the Penis," which suggests novel readings of familiar images of masculinity and introduces new ones, to "Appropriated Sexuality," a trenchant analysis of David Salle’s depiction of women, Wet is a fascinating and informative collection.
Complemented by over twenty illustrations, the essays in Wet reveal Schor’s remarkable ability to see and to make others see art in a radically new light.
- Contents
- Preface
- I. Masculinity
- Appropriated Sexuality (1986)
- Representations of the Penis (1988)
- Forensics: The Part for the Hole (1992)
- "The Bitter Tea of General Yen": Paintings by David Diao (1995)
- II. Feminity and Feminism
- From Liberation to Lack (1987)
- Ana Mendieta (1988)
- Medusa Redux: Ida Applebroog and the Spaces of Postmodernity (1990-93)
- The Return of the Same (1990)
- "Just the Facts, Ma'am" (1990-96)
- Patrilineage (1991-92)
- III. Teaching
- On Failure and Anonymity (1985)
- Authority and Learning (1990)
- IV. Painting
- Bonnard's Ants (1987)
- Figure/Ground (1989)
- Researching Visual Pleasure (1991)
- The Erotics of Visuality (1992)
- Course Proposal (1993)
- Painting as Manual (1995)
- V. You Can't Leave Home without It (1991)
- Afterword: Painting and Language / Painting Language
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index
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