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Man as object : reversing the gaze: SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, California, November 2011 : Kinsey Institute Gallery, Bloomington, Indiana, April to June 2012
- Title
- Man as object : reversing the gaze: SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, California, November 2011 : Kinsey Institute Gallery, Bloomington, Indiana, April to June 2012 / Women's Caucus for Art ; organized by Karen Gutfreund ; edited by Tanya Augsburg.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York, NY : Women's Caucus for Art, ©2011.
- Description
- 196 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
- Other contributors
- Augsburg, Tanya. Gutfreund, Karen, Hershman-Leeson, Lynn, 1941- Sprinkle, Annie, 1954- Wolf, Melissa. Women's Caucus for Art. SomArts Cultural Center. Kinsey Institute Gallery.
- Notes
- Catalog of an exhibition "Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze." Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
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- From inception to erection: the birth of man as object: reversing the gaze / Brenda Oelbaum
- Introduction: some starting points, theories, and themes / Tanya Augsburg
- Featured artists
- Complicit object
- reversing the gaze / Lynn Hershman Leeson
- On shooting men / Annie M. Sprinkle
- The ethics of the female gaze
- the "sex" act of a woman behind the camera / Melissa P. Wolf.
- Summary
- "In Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze", the idea of what "is" is turned on its head. In this exhibition, women artists reverse the gaze and look back at man as object or desire ... The exhibition features the work of 117 women artists with 124 works in the gallery and an additional 89 artists in the catalogue and also features the work of: Juana Alicia, Nancy Buchanan, the Guerrilla Girls on Tour!, Lynn Hershman, Jill O'Bryan, ORLAN, Carolee Schneemann, the late Sylvia Sleigh, Annie Sprinkle, Elizabeth Stephens, May Wilson and Melissa P. Wolf."--Page 5.
- Subject headings
- Juana Alicia. Buchanan, Nancy, 1946- Hershman-Leeson, Lynn, 1941- O'Bryan, Jill. Orlan. Schneemann, Carolee, 1939-2019 Sleigh, Sylvia. Sprinkle, Annie, 1954- Stephens, Elizabeth. Wilson, May, 1905-1986. Wolf, Melissa. Guerrilla Girls (Group of artists) Feminism in art--21st century--Exhibitions. Feminist art criticism. Men in art--21st century--Exhibitions.