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25 Women - Essays on Their Art
by Dave Hickey
University Of Chicago Press | January 2016 | ISBN-10: 0226333159 | ePUB | 19.1 mb
https://www.amazon.com/25-Women-Essays-Their-Art/dp/0226333159

Newsweek calls him "exhilarating and deeply engaging." Time Out New York calls him "smart, provocative, and a great writer." Critic Peter Schjeldahl, meanwhile, simply calls him "My hero." There's no one in the art world quite like Dave Hickey-and a new book of his writing is an event.
25 Women will not disappoint. The book collects Hickey's best and most important writing about female artists from the past twenty years. But this is far more than a compilation: Hickey has revised each essay, bringing them up to date and drawing out common themes. Written in Hickey's trademark style-accessible, witty, and powerfully illuminating-25 Women analyzes the work of Joan Mitchell, Bridget Riley, Fiona Rae, Lynda Benglis, Karen Carson, and many others. Hickey discusses their work as work, bringing politics and gender into the discussion only where it seems warranted by the art itself. The resulting book is not only a deep engagement with some of the most influential and innovative contemporary artists, but also a reflection on the life and role of the critic: the decisions, judgments, politics, and ethics that critics negotiate throughout their careers in the art world.

About the Author
Dave Hickey is former executive editor of Art in America and the author of The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty and Air Guitar. He has served as a contributing editor for the Village Voice and as the arts editor of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

CONTENTS
A Ladies’ Man: Introduction
Alexis Smith My Pal Alex
Joan Mitchell Epigrammat
Lynda Benglis Fire on the Water
Vija Celmins The Path Itself
Pia Fries The Remains of Today
Fiona Banner The Beauty of Our Weapons
Sarah Charlesworth Embracing the Beast
Mary Heilmann Surfing on Acid
Jennifer Steinkamp Breathing in the World
Michelle Fierro Beauty Marks
Bridget Riley Not Knowing
Bridget Riley II For Americans
Elizabeth Murray Dancing in the Dark
Karen Carson Sophisticate
Ann Hamilton Thinking Things Through
Vanessa Beecroft Painted Ladies
Roni Horn She Resembles Herself
Fiona Rae Good after the Good Is Gone
Barbara Bloom Barbara Blooms
Sharon Ellis Modest Ecstasy
Hung Liu The Polity of Immigrants
Teresita Fernández Tropical Scholarship
Nancy Rubins The Rapture and the Tsunami
Elizabeth Peyton At the Prince’s Chateau