Feminist Art Seminar Notes
Quotes read out and discussed in Feminist Art Seminar video recording,
ICA/n.paradoxa,
led by Katy Deepwell
What is Feminist Aesthetics? (26 Jan 2011)
Is there a feminine or a feminist aesthetic in women’s art and what does this mean? Feminist aesthetics became the “catch-all” phrase for discussing what was different – and specifically feminist – in women’s art production and whether this was to do with content, with media, with political intent or with the context in which women artists’ work was shown. So, what is feminist aesthetics?
1) Nancy Arden McHugh ‘Feminist Aesthetics’ (2007). In Feminist Philosophies A-Z. Retrieved from www.credoreference.com/entry/edinburghfem/feminist_aesthetics
2) William E. Kennick quoted from an article in 1958 in Peg Brand ‘Introduction: Aesthetics and Its Traditions’ in Peg Brand and C. Korsmeyer Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics (1995)
3) Marilyn French ‘Is there a Feminist Aesthetic?’ (1990) in H. Hein and Carolyn Korsmeyer Aesthetics in Feminist Perspective (1993)
4) Peg Brand ‘Introduction: Aesthetics and Its Traditions’ in Peg Brand and C. Korsmeyer Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics (1995)
5) Peg Brand ‘Introduction: Aesthetics and Its Traditions’ in Peg Brand and C. Korsmeyer Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics (1995)
6) Christine Battersby ‘Situating the Aesthetic: A Feminist Defence’ in A. Benjamin and P. Osborne Thinking Beyond Traditional Aesthetics (ICA, 1991)
7) Hilde Hein ‘Refining Feminist Theory: Lessons from Aesthetics’ in H. Hein and C. Korsmeyer Aesthetics in Feminist Perspective (1993)
8) Joanne B. Waugh ‘Analytic Aesthetics and Feminist Aesthetics: Neither/Nor?’ in Peg Zeglin Brand and Carolyn Korsmeyer (eds) Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics (Penn State Univ Press, 1995) pp.399-416
9) Lucy Lippard ‘Changing since Changing’ in From the Center: Feminist Essays on Women’s Art (New York: E P Dutton, 1976)
10) Martha Rosler ‘The Private and the Public: Feminist Art in California’ Art Forum Sept 1977
11) Ulricke Rosenbach ‘Untitled Statement’ (1975) reproduced in Kristine Stiles and Peter Selz (eds.) Theories and Documents in Contemporary Art (Univ of California Press, 1996) p.757
12) Judy Chicago ‘Woman as Artist’ (1972) From Everywoman 2 (7) pp.24-25 reproduced in H. Robinson Feminism-Art-Theory (Blackwell, 2001) pp.294-5
13) Marjorie Kramer ‘Some Thoughts on Feminist Art’ (1971) Women and Art (1) p.3, reproduced in H. Robinson Feminism-Art-Theory (Blackwell, 2001) pp.292-3
14) Judy Chicago interviewed by Lucy Lippard in From the Center: Feminist Essays on Women’s Art (New York: E P Dutton, 1976) published first in Art Forum (1974)
15) Judith Stein ‘For a Truly Feminist Art’ (1972) from The Big News 1 (9) 1972 p.3 reproduced in H. Robinson Feminism-Art-Theory (Blackwell, 2001) p.297-8
16) Silvia Bovenschen ‘Is there a Feminine Aesthetic?’ (1976) republished in English in Gisela Ecker’s Feminist Aesthetics (1985)
17) Gisela Ecker introduction to Feminist Aesthetics (1985)
18) Rita Felski ‘Why feminism doesn’t need an aesthetic (and why it can’t ignore aesthetics)’ in Peg Zeglin Brand and Carolyn Korsmeyer (eds) Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics (Penn State Univ Press, 1995) pp.431-445 (first published as a special issue of Hypatia, 1993)
19) Gisela Ecker introduction to Feminist Aesthetics (1985)
20) Silvia Bovenschen ‘Is there a Feminine Aesthetic?’ (1976) republished in English in Gisela Ecker’s Feminist Aesthetics (1985)
21) Rita Felski ‘Why feminism doesn’t need an aesthetic (and why it can’t ignore aesthetics)’
in Peg Zeglin Brand and Carolyn Korsmeyer (eds) Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics (Penn State Univ Press, 1995) pp.431-445 (first published as a special issue of Hypatia, 1993)