Mothers of Invention

Works by six women artists are viewed as an appropriation or "re-invention" of the ideas and images of motherhood traditionally sanctioned by patriarchal structures

Nancy Spero : Works Since 1950

The collected essays address various phases of Spero's work. Themes include feminism, critical intervention, war machinery and Bakhtin's notion of the carnivalesque. Biographical notes. Bibl. 5 p

The Event Horizon : Essays on Hope, Sexuality, Social Space and Media(tion) in Art

The anthology's title is drawn from an analogy with physics, which refers to the critical threshold crossed by matter before it is drawn irreversibly into one of the universe's black holes. The essays were written by artists curators and critics on subjects which were originally the basis for four exhibitions at the Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, in 1984-85. A variety of voices - poetic, fictive, narrative, critical and theoretical, occasionally collaged within individual essays - are integrated with or supported by graphic and photographic material. Biographical notes

Material Matters : The Art and Culture of Contemporary Textiles

This anthology presents critical and theoretical texts by sixteen writers concerned with the presence of textile materials, practices and metaphors within contemporary art and discourse. The following issues are considered within the frameworks of feminism, structuralism and postmodernism: material and process; gender and identity; cloth, colonialism and resistance; history and tradition. Biographical notes on contributors. Circa 310 bibl. ref

The Artist's Joke

"This anthology traces humour's role in transforming the practice and experience of art, from the early twentieth-century avant-gardes, through Fluxus and Pop, to the diverse, often uncategorizable works of some of the most influential artists today" -- p. [4] of cover