Decade of Negative Thinking Essays on Art, Politics, and Daily Life

Name: Decade of Negative Thinking Essays on Art, Politics, and Daily Life
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ISBN: 9780822346029

ISBN-10: 0822346028

ISBN-13: 9780822346029

Edition: 2010

Authors: Mira Schor

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A Decade of Negative Thinking brings together writings on contemporary art and culture by the painter and feminist art theorist Mira Schor. Mixing theory and practice, the personal and the political, she tackles questions about the place of feminism in art and political discourse, the aesthetics and values of contemporary painting, and the influence of the market on the creation of art. Schor writes across disciplines and is committed to the fluid interrelationship between a formalist aesthetic, a literary sensibility, and a strongly political viewpoint. Her critical views are expressed with poetry and humor in the accessible language that has been her hallmark, and her perspective is…

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 1/25/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



She Said, She Said: Feminist Debates, 1971-2009


The ism that dare not speak its name


Anonymity as a Political Tactic: Art Blogs, Feminism, Writing, and Politics


Generation 2.5


Email to a Young Woman Artist


The Womanhouse Films


Miss Elizabeth Bennett Goes to Feminist Boot Camp



Painting


Some Notes on Women and Abstraction and a Curious Case History: Alice Neel as a Great Abstract Painter


Like a Veneer


Modest Painting


Blurring Richter


Off the Grid


Weather Conditions in Lower Manhattan, September 11, 2001, to October 2, 2001



Trite Tropes


Trite Tropes, Clichï¿½s, or the Persistence of Styles


Recipe Art


Work and Play


New Tales of Scheherazade


Appendix: Work Document: Grey


Notes


Bibliography


Index