Cassandra Langer
Biographic Data
| ID | 4012986 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cassandra Langer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cassandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Langer |
| SIGNATURE | LANGER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Elmhurst College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Reframing Romaine Brooks' Heroic Queer Modernism
Modernism was not a wholesale embracing of Greenberg's definition as abstracting, non-objective, and autonomous. The expatriate U.S. artist and lesbian Romaine Brooks politicized her portraits of females based on a queer combination of the Byronic erotic and Baudelaire's modern dandy. Her execution of her queer modernist aesthetics re-presents female heroes as part of a self-reflective dynamic of lesbian modernity that emphasizes the ambiguity of…
Kiki Smith
Well-known as a sculptor, Smith has also worked extensively as a printmaker--in fact her printed works and other editioned art, including books and multiples, are arguably as important as her sculpture. Smith emerged in the early 1980s as one of a generation of artists who returned to figurative imagery after a period in which American art had leaned to the abstract and conceptual. In Smith's case the interest in the figure was literal: She is fa…
The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader
List of Figures. Notes on Contributors. Permissions. 1. Provocations 2. Representation 3. Differences 4. Histories 5. Readings / Interventions 6. Bodies 7. Technologies. Index
Judy Chicago
Amazons in the Drawing Room
Aesthetics in Feminist Perspective
Philosophical aesthetics and theories of art are among the last areas in which feminist critiques of traditional disciplinary assumptions are being explored. Aesthetics in Feminist Perspective examines the intellectual traditions of the philosophy of art and aesthetics. Containing essays by scholars and by the writer Marilyn French, the collection ranges from the history of aesthetic theory to a philosophical reflection on fashion. The contributi…
Feminist Art Criticism, an Annotated Bibliography
This reference book provides bibliographic information on texts dealing with feminist art history, feminist art criticism and visual art by women artists (emphasis is on English-language publications). Langer's introduction situates the book's content within the contexts of feminist theory and sexual politics. The bibliographical references are organized under the following headings: Books; Exhibition Catalogues; Articles in Periodicals and Chapt…
Helen Levitt
Mother and Child in Art
Dirt & Domesticity
Accompanying a presentation of works (including video works) by 35 artists and collectives, this catalogue contains three essays that interrogate the relationship between represented femininity and dirt or cleanliness. Ward's essay inspects the documentary tradition and contrasts modernist with contemporary practices. Haug traces the role of the Black mammy in domesticity. Mertes views in the historical context a process of legitimation through n…
Mary Kelly's "Interim"
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Mary Kelly's "Interim"
Helen Levitt
Mother and Child in Art
Dirt & Domesticity
Accompanying a presentation of works (including video works) by 35 artists and collectives, this catalogue contains three essays that interrogate the relationship between represented femininity and dirt or cleanliness. Ward's essay inspects the documentary tradition and contrasts modernist with contemporary practices. Haug traces the role of the Black mammy in domesticity. Mertes views in the historical context a process of legitimation through n…
Feminist Art Criticism, an Annotated Bibliography
This reference book provides bibliographic information on texts dealing with feminist art history, feminist art criticism and visual art by women artists (emphasis is on English-language publications). Langer's introduction situates the book's content within the contexts of feminist theory and sexual politics. The bibliographical references are organized under the following headings: Books; Exhibition Catalogues; Articles in Periodicals and Chapt…
Aesthetics in Feminist Perspective
Philosophical aesthetics and theories of art are among the last areas in which feminist critiques of traditional disciplinary assumptions are being explored. Aesthetics in Feminist Perspective examines the intellectual traditions of the philosophy of art and aesthetics. Containing essays by scholars and by the writer Marilyn French, the collection ranges from the history of aesthetic theory to a philosophical reflection on fashion. The contributi…
Amazons in the Drawing Room
Judy Chicago
Kiki Smith
Well-known as a sculptor, Smith has also worked extensively as a printmaker--in fact her printed works and other editioned art, including books and multiples, are arguably as important as her sculpture. Smith emerged in the early 1980s as one of a generation of artists who returned to figurative imagery after a period in which American art had leaned to the abstract and conceptual. In Smith's case the interest in the figure was literal: She is fa…
The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader
List of Figures. Notes on Contributors. Permissions. 1. Provocations 2. Representation 3. Differences 4. Histories 5. Readings / Interventions 6. Bodies 7. Technologies. Index
Reframing Romaine Brooks' Heroic Queer Modernism
Modernism was not a wholesale embracing of Greenberg's definition as abstracting, non-objective, and autonomous. The expatriate U.S. artist and lesbian Romaine Brooks politicized her portraits of females based on a queer combination of the Byronic erotic and Baudelaire's modern dandy. Her execution of her queer modernist aesthetics re-presents female heroes as part of a self-reflective dynamic of lesbian modernity that emphasizes the ambiguity of…
Art (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works)