Maria Elena Buszek
Biographic Data
| ID | 837008 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Elena Buszek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria Elena |
| FAMILY NAME | Buszek |
| SIGNATURE | BUSZEK M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Denver |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7511-2195 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Pam Hogg, 4 January 1951–26 November 2025
Obituary for the late Scottish artist and musician Pam Hogg
Photographing Rebel Music: An interview with Kate Simon
In this interview with art historian Maria Elena Buszek, American photographer Kate Simon (b. 1953) discusses her work as a photojournalist documenting the nascent punk and reggae scenes of the 1970s. Simon shares the ‘punky-reggae’, art and literary connections in her long and storied career, and her perspectives on the gender politics that met the growing numbers of women photojournalists and writers who came out of the 1970s music scene
‘What I really am good at is [...] making a big mess’: An interview with Johanna Went
In this interview with Los Angeles performance artist Johanna Went, the artist talks with art historian Maria Elena Buszek about her path towards both performance art and the punk scene in the 1970s. They discuss the genesis of Went’s often gruesome, largely improvisational performances and lovingly crafted, sculptural costumes that were exhibited in the 2020 exhibition Passion Container at LA gallery The Box, feminist politics and what Went call…
A Kiss across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad, Richard T. Rodríguez (2022)
Review of: A Kiss across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad , Richard T. Rodríguez (2022) Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 256 pp., ISBN 978-1-47801-858-2, p/bk, £17.59
Experimental Filmmaking and Punk: Feminist Audio Visual Culture in the 1970s and 1980s, Rachel Garfield (2022)
Review of: Experimental Filmmaking and Punk: Feminist Audio Visual Culture in the 1970s and 1980s , Rachel Garfield (2022) London: Bloomsbury Academic, 274 pp., ISBN 978-1-78831-399-5, h/bk, £75 ISBN 978-1-35029-308-3, p/bk, £25.99 ISBN 978-1-35019-764-0, ebook, £23.39
Comic Book Women: Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age
Journal Article Comic Book Women: Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age Get access Comic Book Women: Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age. By Peyton Brunet and Blair Davis. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2022. xii, 314 pp. Cloth, $45.00. Paper, $32.95.) Maria Elena Buszek Maria Elena Buszek University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jou…
Trans-Global Punk Scenes: The Punk Reader Vol. 2, Russ Bestley, Mike Dines, Alastair ‘Gords’ Gordon and Paula Guerra (eds) (2021)
Review of: Trans-Global Punk Scenes: The Punk Reader Vol. 2 , Russ Bestley, Mike Dines, Alastair ‘Gords’ Gordon and Paula Guerra (eds) (2021) Bristol and Chicago, IL: Intellect, 340 pp., ISBN 978-1-78938-337-9, p/bk
‘We were living the video revolution’: An interview with Emily Armstrong and Pat Ivers
Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Lower East Side: Post-punk feminist art and New York’s Club 57
This article analyses the feminist art that emerged from New York City’s short-lived, post-punk venue Club 57 (1978–83), where music mixed with visual art, experimental film, performance and politics. A hub of New York’s ‘downtown scene’, Club 57 exemplified ways in which artists’ increasingly promiscuous experiments across media led them to abandon galleries and museums in favour of nightclubs, discos and bars. This tendency dovetailed with the …
Amazons in America: Matriarchs, Utopians, and Wonder Women in U.S. Popular Culture
Davey, Moyra
Punkademia
Extra/Ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art
Mirror, Mirror: Joanna Frueh as Fairy Stepmother
For over 20 years, scholar and performance artist Joanna Frueh has been a pioneering force in feminist art and criticism. In homage to Frueh's “erotic scholarship,” Frueh's own writing and performances concerning relationships between women are interwoven with a biographical history of the author and the artist's own student/teacher relationship
Introduction to the Artists' Statements
Picturing the Modern Amazon
Picturing the Modern Amazon
Extra/Ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art
Mirror, Mirror: Joanna Frueh as Fairy Stepmother
For over 20 years, scholar and performance artist Joanna Frueh has been a pioneering force in feminist art and criticism. In homage to Frueh's “erotic scholarship,” Frueh's own writing and performances concerning relationships between women are interwoven with a biographical history of the author and the artist's own student/teacher relationship
Introduction to the Artists' Statements
Punkademia
Davey, Moyra
Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Lower East Side: Post-punk feminist art and New York’s Club 57
This article analyses the feminist art that emerged from New York City’s short-lived, post-punk venue Club 57 (1978–83), where music mixed with visual art, experimental film, performance and politics. A hub of New York’s ‘downtown scene’, Club 57 exemplified ways in which artists’ increasingly promiscuous experiments across media led them to abandon galleries and museums in favour of nightclubs, discos and bars. This tendency dovetailed with the …
Amazons in America: Matriarchs, Utopians, and Wonder Women in U.S. Popular Culture
Trans-Global Punk Scenes: The Punk Reader Vol. 2, Russ Bestley, Mike Dines, Alastair ‘Gords’ Gordon and Paula Guerra (eds) (2021)
Review of: Trans-Global Punk Scenes: The Punk Reader Vol. 2 , Russ Bestley, Mike Dines, Alastair ‘Gords’ Gordon and Paula Guerra (eds) (2021) Bristol and Chicago, IL: Intellect, 340 pp., ISBN 978-1-78938-337-9, p/bk
‘We were living the video revolution’: An interview with Emily Armstrong and Pat Ivers
A Kiss across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad, Richard T. Rodríguez (2022)
Review of: A Kiss across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad , Richard T. Rodríguez (2022) Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 256 pp., ISBN 978-1-47801-858-2, p/bk, £17.59
Experimental Filmmaking and Punk: Feminist Audio Visual Culture in the 1970s and 1980s, Rachel Garfield (2022)
Review of: Experimental Filmmaking and Punk: Feminist Audio Visual Culture in the 1970s and 1980s , Rachel Garfield (2022) London: Bloomsbury Academic, 274 pp., ISBN 978-1-78831-399-5, h/bk, £75 ISBN 978-1-35029-308-3, p/bk, £25.99 ISBN 978-1-35019-764-0, ebook, £23.39
Comic Book Women: Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age
Journal Article Comic Book Women: Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age Get access Comic Book Women: Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age. By Peyton Brunet and Blair Davis. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2022. xii, 314 pp. Cloth, $45.00. Paper, $32.95.) Maria Elena Buszek Maria Elena Buszek University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jou…
Photographing Rebel Music: An interview with Kate Simon
In this interview with art historian Maria Elena Buszek, American photographer Kate Simon (b. 1953) discusses her work as a photojournalist documenting the nascent punk and reggae scenes of the 1970s. Simon shares the ‘punky-reggae’, art and literary connections in her long and storied career, and her perspectives on the gender politics that met the growing numbers of women photojournalists and writers who came out of the 1970s music scene
‘What I really am good at is [...] making a big mess’: An interview with Johanna Went
In this interview with Los Angeles performance artist Johanna Went, the artist talks with art historian Maria Elena Buszek about her path towards both performance art and the punk scene in the 1970s. They discuss the genesis of Went’s often gruesome, largely improvisational performances and lovingly crafted, sculptural costumes that were exhibited in the 2020 exhibition Passion Container at LA gallery The Box, feminist politics and what Went call…
Pam Hogg, 4 January 1951–26 November 2025
Obituary for the late Scottish artist and musician Pam Hogg
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