Christian Eckart

With reference to Barnett Newman's concept of "the natural desire for the exalted", Avgikos discusses the embodiment of the spiritual sublime in Eckart's paintings and proposes that the work confirms the persistence of allegories of desire and sexuality which underlie both "high art" and mass media imagery. Biographical notes. 73 bibl. ref

Saint-Pierre

In three texts, Saint-Pierre's process of working, his various formulations of the idea of the canvas, and his painting's relationship to modernism and postmodernism, as well as to French surrealism and Québécois automatism are discussed. Biographical notes. 9 bibl. ref

Creative Time, 1989-1990

Catalogue documents a series of exhibitions of site-specific works in New York City. Avgikos describes the particular site of the Brooklyn Bridge's Anchorage and the installation and performance held there. While Phillips sketches the exhibition at the Battery Maritime Building, Muschamp draws similarities between between the Anchorage works and the aims of Social Realism. Chronology of events. Biographical notes. 3 bibl. ref

Art and Feminism

Authoritative publication focusing on the role of theory in the evolution of feminist art. Phelan's essay surveying American and British feminist art produced between 1960-2000 traces the "shifting geographies of feminism" by situating diverse formal strategies used by feminist artists within the contexts of abstract expressionim, minimalism, conceptual art, performance art and photographic performance. Her analysis of the ideological forces within representational systems is informed by postructuralism and psychoanalytic theories of sexual difference. Issues of identity, race, sexuality, class, gender and age are considered in relation to the marginalization of women, the objectification of the female body, and essentialism. Includes documentation of numerous artworks and texts by artists and authors working in disciplines of feminist philosophy, psychoanalysis, art history, film theory and literary criticism. Biographical notes. Index of names. Bibliography. Circa 675 bibl. ref