Our selves: photographs by women artists, from Helen Kornblum

Abstract

"Our Selves" affirms the creative and political agency of women artists. A critical essay by curator Roxana Marcoci reconsiders the art-historical canon through works by Claude Cahun, Tina Modotti, Carrie Mae Weems, Catherine Opie, and Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie, among others. Twelve focused essays by emerging scholars explore themes such as identity and gender, the relationship between educational systems and power, and the ways in which women artists have reframed our received ideas about womanhood. This catalog features more than 100 color and black-and-white plates. As twenty-first century society continues to aspire to expanded equity and diversity, "Our Selves" offers perspectives on the contributions of women, previously too often relegated to the margins of our cultural imagination.

Contents

(from table of contents) Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry -- With heartfelt appreciation / Helen Kornblum -- A few words for two friends / Kathy Halbreich -- What is a feminist picture? / Roxana Marcoci -- (Plates / Dana Ostrander, Caitlin Ryan, Phil Taylor). Youth and pedagogy / DO -- From mask to metonym / PT -- Movement in picture form / CR -- Visual ecologies / CR -- Mannequins and mirrors / PT -- The social archive / CR -- Documentary portraits / DO -- Indigeneity and colonial encounters / DO -- Performance as ethnography / CR -- Positioning identity / DO -- Threshold perceptions / PT -- Narrative and its limits / PT.