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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789550003321

Titolo

Girls! Girls! Girls! [[electronic resource] ] : in contemporary art / / edited by Catherine Grant and Lori Waxman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol [England] ; ; Chicago, : Intellect, 2011

ISBN

1-283-16286-5

9786613162861

1-84150-528-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WaxmanLori

GrantCatherine

Disciplina

780/.82

Soggetti

Girls in art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Girl in Contemporary Art; Through the Looking-Glass with Heart-Shaped Sunglasses: Searching for Alice and Lolita in Contemporary Representations of Girls; Dial 'P' For Panties: Narrative Photography in the 1990's (with a New Afterword by the Author); Girlish Games: Playfulness and 'Drawingness' in the Work of Francesca Woodman and Lucy Gunning; Marlene McCarty's Murder Girls; Haunted: Writing with the Girl; Oh Mother Where art Thou? Sue de Beer's Hysterical Orphan Girls

Mi-girl. Mi-kick, Mi-fire, Mi-sin, Mi-soul, MI-WA: A Fairy Tale in Blue Baby Butches and Reluctant Lolitas: Collier Schorr and Hellen van Meene; Author Biographies; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

Since the 1990's, women artists have led the contemporary art world in the creation of art depicting female adolescence, producing challenging, critically debated, and avidly collected artworks that are driving the current and momentous shift in the perception of women in art. Girls! Girls! Girls! presents essays from established and up-and-coming scholars who 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 artists