The Benefit Of Art Author:Fritz Emslander, Barbara Vinken, Katharina Vossenkuhl, Diana Ebster, Thomas Meinecke, Birgit Sonna, Jonathan Horowitz, Sarah Lukas, Gillian Wearing, Tracey Emin, Matthew Barney, Mona Hatoum Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? feminist art historian Linda Nochlin famously asked in 1988. It's a rhetorical question that fortunately needn't be asked in the 90s, a decade that produced at least as much great art by women as by artists of any other gender. Primarily devoted to the positions of these young European and American wom... more »en art makers, The Benefit of Art displays sketches and paintings, photographic works, videos, and installations by Matthew Barney, Rineke Dijkstra, Tracey Emin, Mona Hatoum, Jonathan Horowitz, Sarah Jones, Mike Kelley, Karen Kilimnik, Sarah Lucas, Tracey Moffatt, Cady Noland, Catherine Opie, Pipilotti Rist, Daniela Rossell, Cindy Sherman, Ann-Sofi Sidén, Sam Taylor-Wood, Gillian Wearing, Sue Williams, and Andrea Zittel. Concentrating on developments in the art of the 90s that have been classified as postfeminist, this book asks whether, and to what degree, the concept itself is useful and applicable. The larger context concerns the state of feminism, one of the most incisive social developments of the 20th century, which saw its traditional, emancipatory approach undergo a reworking in the artistic discourse of a younger generation, whose self-confident inquiries, as personal as they are sociological, evolved from feminist criticism to gender studies.
Artists include Mona Hatoum, Andrea Zittel, Matthew Barney, Tracey Emin, Cady Noland, Jonathan Horowitz, Sarah Jones, Mike Kelley, Karen Kilimnik, Sarah Lukas, Tracey Moffatt, Catherine Opie, Rineke Dijkstra, Gillian Wearing, amongst others. Edited by Rainald Schumacher and Thomas Winzen.
Essays by Matthias Winzen, Jessica Morgan, Katharina Vossenkuhl, Birgit Sonna, Fritz Emslander, Diana Ebster, Katharina Sykora, Thomas Meinecke, Rainald Schumacher and Barbara Vinken. Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in., 250 pages, 140 color illustrations« less