Through the Looking Glass
Sarah Rich author Joyce Henri Robinson author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Pennsylvania State University Press
Published:29th Oct '03
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Through the Looking Glass provides readers with an informative record of the exhibition of self-portraits by Ana Mendieta, Carrie Mae Weems, and other leading women artists, held in 2003 at the Palmer Museum of Art as part of the Women's Self-Representation Project at The Pennsylvania State University.
Fully illustrated, this catalogue enables readers to revisit the provocative juxtaposition of Yayoi Kusama's Multi-Fabrics and Alba d'Urbano's Couture, or Martha Rosler's Semiotics of the Kitchen and several of Cindy Sherman's famed Film Stills. An essay by Sarah Rich addresses important questions about women's use of self-portraiture. How, for example, does self-representation by women engage with narcissism, a long-time trait long ascribed to the stereotypical "woman"? To what extent is gender a necessary element in women's self-portraiture?
"Venus trying to make nice to hear her own voice speak and know the sound of her own voice." - Julie Heffernan"
ISBN: 9780911209600
Dimensions: 229mm x 229mm x 5mm
Weight: 227g
44 pages