Feminist Art Criticism

From the Preface:The essays in Feminist Art Criticism are theoretical and we selected them for several reasons. First they show a diversity of concerns. These include spirituality sexuality the representation of women in art the necessary inter-relationship of theory and action women as artmakers ethnicity language itself so-called postfeminism and critiques of hte art world the discipline of art history and the practice of art criticism. Second the contributors' work has not been either widely disseminated or readily available. Third the essays especially arranged as they are (chronologically) demonstrate a continuous feminist discourse in art from the early 1970s through the present a discourse that is neither monolithic nor intellectually trendy but that rather exhibits many elements the polemical Marxist lyrical and poststructuralist being only a few.