In recent years; Laura Cottingham has emerged as one of the most visible feminist critics of the so-called post-feminist generation. Following a social-political approach to art history and criticism that accepts visual culture as part of a larger social reality; Cottinghams writings investigate central tensions currently operative in the production; distribution and evaluation of art; especially those related to cultural production by and about women.Seeing Through the Seventies: Essays on Feminism and Art gathers together Cottinghams key essays from the 1990s. These include an appraisal of Lucy R. Lippard; the most influential feminist art critic of the1970s; a critique of the masculinist bias implicit to modernism and explicitly recuperated by commercially successful artists during the 1980s; an exhaustive analysis of the curatorial failures operative in the "Bad Girls" museum exhibitions of the early 1990s; surveys of feminist-influenced art practices during the womens liberationist period; speculations on the current possibilities and obstacles that attend efforts to recover lesbian cultural history; and an examination of the life; work and obscuration of the early twentieth-century French photographer Claude Cahun.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Excellent product and serviceBy Brian A. ThompsonBook arrived in excellent condition as advertised; extremely well packaged.; within the promised time frame. All good!2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Spoiled BratsBy Mark William LevyThis book chronicles the Asian adventure of the Malraux couple; who; as a pair of young and rather devious travelers; engaged in antics including the (intended) theft of national treasures from Cambodia to finance their over-privileged lifestyle.Although Malraux later became serious about politics and managed some heroics during WWII before taking his place as a fixture of Frances pantheon of Great Men of the Republic; one gets the feeling that part of the mystique of Malraux derived from boundless egotism and a somewhat unwholesome ambition.The book is rather hastily put together and contains some bad typos or errors...but on the whole is a lively and interesting account of the ambiguous career of a remarkable man.