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

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TextPublication details: Bristol : Intellect Books, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (x, 185 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), portraitsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781841505282
1841505285
1841503487
9781841503486

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

704.9424 22

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N7630

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Contents:

Introduction The Girl in Contemporary Art / Catherine Grant and Lori Waxman -- Through the Looking-Glass with Heart-Shaped Sunglasses : Searching for Alice and Lolita in Contemporary Representations of Girls / Lori Waxman -- Dial 'P' for Panties : Narrative Photography in the 1990s (with a New Afterword by the Author) / Lucy Soutter -- Girlish Games : Playfulness and 'Drawingness' in the Work of Francesca Woodman and Lucy Gunning / Harriet Riches -- Marlene McCarty's Murder Girls / Maud Lavin -- Haunted : Writing with the Girl / Taru Elfving -- Oh Mother Where Art Thou? Sue de Beer's Hysterical Orphan Girls / Kate Random -- Love Mi-girl, Mi-kick, Mi-fire, Mi-sin, Mi-soul, MI-WA : A Fairy Tale in Blue / Carol Mavor -- Baby Butches and Reluctant Lolitas : Collier Schorr and Hellen van Meene / Catherine Grant.

Summary: Essays 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 artistic explorations signify. Artists discussed include Anna Gaskell, Marlene McCarty, Sue de Beer, Miwa Yanagi, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Collier Schorr and more.

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Essays 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 artistic explorations signify. Artists discussed include Anna Gaskell, Marlene McCarty, Sue de Beer, Miwa Yanagi, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Collier Schorr and more.

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