Book
Bad girls.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780262700535
- ISBN: 0262700530
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Physical Description:
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144 p. : ill ; 22 cm. - Publisher: New York : New Museum of Contemporary Art ; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1994.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "An exhibition organized by Marcia Tucker at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, part 1: January 14-February 27,1994, part II, March 5-April 10, 1994"--T.p. Verso. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-143). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction and Acknowledgments / Marcia Tucker -- Preface and Acknowledgments / Marcia Tanner -- Attack of the Giant Ninja Mutant Barbies / Marcia Tucker -- Mother Laughed: The Bad Girls' Avant-Garde / Marcia Tanner -- "All That She Wants": Transgressions, Appropriations, and Art / Linda Goode Bryant -- Possessed / Cheryl Dunye -- Bad Girls Exhibitions Compendium. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Feminism and art -- United States -- Exhibitions Art, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions |
Available copies
- 0 of 1 copy available at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emily Carr University of Art + Design | N72 .F45 B33 1994 c.2 (Text) | 30194461 | Book | Not holdable | Lost | 2021-08-20 |
- MIT Press
Examines the issues and controversies raised by the recent exhibitions "Bad Girls" and "Bad Girls West" in New York and Los Angeles. - MIT Press
Examines the issues and controversies raised by the recent exhibitions "Bad Girls" and "Bad Girls West" in New York and Los Angeles.
With essays by Marcia Tucker, Marcia Tanner, Linda Goode Bryant, and Cheryl Dunye Unconventional and distinctly "unladylike," Bad Girls considers many issues and controversies raised by the recent exhibitions "Bad Girls" and "Bad Girls West," mounted in New York and Los Angeles respectively. But the central issues it examines are humor, transgression, and the critical and constructive potential of laughter in the work of a new generation of Bad Girls. Humor is the connecting force between the 45 artists in "Bad Girls," and it is clear that they express themselves in ways that their mothers probably would not have approved of. But they don't care. Bad Girls addresses questions of gender, race, class, age, and sex by challenging conventional ideas about motherhood, food, fashion, beauty, work, marriage, and psychoanalysis. Using humor as a subversive weapon and having a field day with cosmetic aids and transgressive bodies, the artists in Bad Girls draw from the issues that concern artists like Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, Hannah Wilke, and Cindy Sherman while taking these in new directions. In one of the book's four essays, Marcia Tucker, founder and director of The New Museum of Contemporary Art, discusses the relationship between work centering on gender and feminist issues and the carnivalesque, the female/lesbian/cross-dressed body in relation to the "grotesque body," mass culture and popular culture, and the evolution of a female comic sensibility. Marcia Tanner, independent curator for "Bad Girls West" in Los Angeles, focuses on foremothers who include Yoko Ono, Sherrie Levine, and Louise Bougeoise. Linda Goode Bryant, freelance writer and researcher, takes on the etymology of the world "bad" in black culture. And Cheryl Dunye, curator, lecturer, and self-described black lesbian bad girl filmmaker, addreses transgressive women's videos. You're less apt to be a bad girl if: You're reasonably sure you could survive in the suburbs without taking Prozac. You're more apt to be a bad girl if: Someone made your hair a primary color and you didn't sue Sybil Sage/Wall Texts, 1994.
