Published in 2011
188 pages
Lori Waxman teaches in the departments of Art History, Theory, and Criticism and New Arts Journalism. She has a B.A. from McGill University, an M.A. from SAIC, and a Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She is the co-editor and co-author of Girls! Girls! Girls! in Contemporary Art (2011) and Talking with Your Mouth Full: New Language for Socially Engaged Art (2008). She writes a biweekly column for the Chicago Tribune and has also written articles for Artforum, Parkett, and Tema Celeste. In 2008, Waxman received a Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. In the summer of 2012, she performed “60 wrd/min art critic” as part of dOCUMENTA (13).
What is this book about?
Since the 1990s, female artists have led the contemporary art world in the creation of art depicting female adolescence, producing challenging, critically debated, and avidly collected artworks that are driving the current and momentous shift in the perception of women in art. Girls! Girls! Girls! presents essays from established and up-and-coming scholars who address a variety of themes, including narcissism, nostalgia, postfeminism, and fantasy with the goal of approaching the overarching question of why female artists are turning in such numbers to the subject of girls—and what these artistic explorations signify. Artists discussed include Anna Gaskell, Marlene McCarty, Sue de Beer, Miwa Yanagi, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Collier Schorr, and more. Contributors include Lucy Soutter, Harriet Riches, Maud Lavin, Taru Elfving, Kate Random Love, and Carol Mavor.
