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feminist references: art, theory and literature
 

Art History/History

Bonnie Anderson

A History of their Own Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present vol. 1& 2, 1988 Pelican NY
John Berger

Ways of Seeing, 1972 Penguin Books Britain

 

Another Way of Telling, 1982 Writers and Readers London

Whitney Chadwick

Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement, 1985 Thames & Hudson London

Germain Greer The Obstacle Race
Lucy Lippard From The Center Feminist Essays on Woman Art 1976 Dutton Paperback New York
  Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory 1983 Pantheon Books New York
Rosalind E. Krauss The Optical Unconscious, 1993 MIT Press Massachusetts USA
Christine de Pizan The Book of the City of the Ladies, 1983 Persea Books Great Britain
Susan Sontag On Photography 1977 Penguin USA
Mary Anne Staniszewski Believing is Seeing. Creating the Culture of   Art 1995 Penguin NY
Suzi Gablik Progress in Art 1976 Thames and Hudson London
  The Re-Enchantment of Art
Janette Winterson  Art Objects Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery
   
   
Artists – American  
   
Laurie Anderson (Sound and performance)
Ida Applebroog (Painter)
Sophie Calle (Performance autobiography)
Nancy Burson (Photographer faces)
Judy Chicago  (Painter) Through the Flower
  My Struggle as a Woman Artist 1975 The Woman’s Press Doubleday New York
  The Dinner Party
Vija Celmins (Painter starry skies)
Marlene Dumas (Painter)
Moira Dryer (Painter)
Nancy Graves (Sculpture)
Ann Hamilton (Instillation)
Mary Heilman (Painter)
Eva Hess (Sculpture)
Jenny Holzer   (Sculpture/text)
Rebecca Horn (Sculpture)
YoYoi Kusama (Sculpture Painter)
Lee Krasner (Painter Abstract Expressionist)
Sherrie Levine (Sculpture)
Agnes Martin  (Painter Abstract Expressionist)
Elizabeth Murry (Painter)
Alice Neel (Painter)
Anna Mendieta (Sculpture)
Georgia O'Keefe (Painter) Georgia O'Keefe
Susan Rothenberg (Painter)
Kiki Smith (Sculpture)
Sally Smart (Painter Collages)
Nancy Spero (Printer Scrolls Murals)
Rosemarie Trockel (Sculpture)
Rachel Whiteread (Sculpture)
   
   
Artists –European  
   
Marina Abramovic (Performance)
Janine Antoni (Sculpture/Instillation)
Louise Bourgeois (Sculpture/Drawer)
Leonor Fini  (Surrealist Painter)
Freda Kahlo  (Surrealist Painter)
Remedios Varo (Surrealist Painter)
   
   
Artists-English  
   
Leonora Carrington (Surrealist)
Mary Kelly (Feminist text and instillation)
  Post Partum Document 1983 Routledge Press London
   
Artists-Australian  
   
Yvonne Audette  
Clarice Beckett  
Vivienne Binns (Multimedia artist) (Art in Australia QuarterlyJournal Vol 30 no .3
Annette Bezor (Painting)
Fiona Folly (Indigenous- Instillation, Photography, Painting)
Rosalie Gascoigne (Sculpture)
Elizabeth Gower (Collage)
Melinda Harper (Painter grid) Art in Australia vol 31 No.3
Fiona Hall  (Instillation)
Barbara Hanrahan (Printer Drawer)
Joy Hester (Painter)
Narelle Jubelin  (Embroider instillation)
Mika Mora (Doll Maker, Painter)
Bea Maddock (Painter Printer) Being and Nothingness 1992 Catalogue ANG &QAC
Tracey Moffatt  (Film, photography)
Susan Norrie (Painter) Art in Australia vol31 No.3
Margaret Preston (Printmaker, Painter)
Mona Ryder  
Sally Smart (Instillation)
Kathy Temin (Sculpture instillation) Art in Australia vol31 No.3
Anne Wallace (Painter)
   
   
Performance Artists  
   
Kathy Acker  
Karen Finley  
Annie Sprinkle  
Carole Schneeman  
Linda Montano Re/search No.13 Angry Women
  1991 Re/search Publications California USA
   
   
Theory (feminist)  
Australian  
   
   
Elizabeth Grosz Space, time and perversion 1995 Allen and Unwin Australia
  Volatile Bodies
  Sexual Subversions
  1989 Allen and Unwin
Dale Spender  
   
   
Theory - English  
   
Deborah Cameron Feminism and Linguistic Theory 1992 Macmillan Press London
Mary Daley Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism 1978 Beacon Press Boston
  Pure Lust 1984 Beacon Pres Boston
   
   
Theory - French  
   
H Cixous & C. Clement The Newly Born Woman 1983 University of Minnesota Press USA
Michele Le Doeuff  
Luce Irigaray Sexes and Genealogies 1993 Columbia University Press
  Speculum of the Other Woman
  The Sex which is Not One1985 Cornell University Press USA
  Marine Lover of Fredrich Nietzche Columbia University Press
Julia Kristeva Powers of Horror An Essay in Abjection 1982 Columbia University Press USA
  Tales of Love 1987 Columbia University Press USA
Estella Lauter Woman as Mythmakers  Poetry and Visual Art by Twentieth Century Women 1984 Indian University Press USA
   

Poetry literature and literary criticism

             

Margaret Atwood Surfacing
Jane Austine Persuasion
Emily Bronte  
Leonora Carrington The Seventh Horse
Angela Carter The Magic Toy Shop
Helen Cixous The Helen Cixous Reader
  Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing
Colette  My Mothers House and Side
  The Pure and the Impure
  Claudine Married
  Retreat from Love
Emily Dickinson (poet) The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson  
Margaret Duras The Lover
  The North China Lover
Judy Grahn  The Highest Apple Sapho and The Lesbian Poetic Tradition
  The Work of the Common Woman
  A Woman who is talking to death
  Confrontations with the Devil in the form of Love
Susan Griffin Woman and Nature. The Roaring inside Her
H.D. Notes on Thought and Vision
  Bid Me To Live
  Helen in Egypt
  Hermetic Definition
  Selected Poems of H.D.
Kathleen Mansfield (novelist)
Marion Milner (alias Joanna Fields) On Not Being able to Paint
  Life of Ones own
  An Experiment In Leisure
  Eternity's Sunrise
Anais Ninn Diaries Vol.1-7
  Cities of the Interior
  In Favor of a Sensitive Man
  Delta of Venus (Erotica)

Tillie Olsen

Silences

Sylvia Plath

(Poet) The Glass Bell Jar
  Ariel
Adrian Rich (Poet)
Stevie Smith (Poet)
Mary Shelly Frankenstein
Gertrude Stein Look at me now here I am
  The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Monique Wittig   Les Guerillieres
  The Lesbian Body
Jeanette Winterson Oranges are not the Only Fruit
  The Passion
  Sexing the Cherry
  Written on the Body
  Art and Lies Art Objects Essays and Effrontary
Virginia Wolf The Waves
  To The Lighthouse
  Mrs. Dalloway
  A Room of my Own
   
   
Contemporary Artists  
   
A-G  
   
Marina Abramovic  
Eija-Lilisa Ahtila  
Ghada Amer  
Laurie Anderson  
Janine Antoni  
Vanessa Beecroft  
Cosima von Bonin  
Louise Bourgeois  
Angela Bullock  
Sophie Callie  
Judy Chicago  
Lygia Clark  
Habnne Darboven  
Sonia Delaunney  
Rineke Dijkstra  
Mariene Dumas  
Maria Eichhorn  
Tracy Emin  
Valie Export  
SylvieFleury Kathrine Fritsch  
Ellen Gallagher  
Isa Genzken  
Nan Golden  
Natalia Goncharova  
Renee Green  
Astra Groting  
Guerrilla Girls  
   
H-N  
   
Mona Hartoum  
Barbara hepworth  
Lynn Hersman  
Eva Hess  
Hannah Hoch  
Candida  Hofer  
C& I Hohenbuchler  
Nancy Holt  
Jenny Holtzer  
Rebecca Horn  
Magdelena Jetelova  
Frida Kahlo  
TobaKhedoori  
Karen Killimnik  
Astrid Klein  
Lee Krasner  
Barbara Kruger  
Elke Krystuick  
Marie-Joe Lafontaine  
Louise Lawler  
Temara de Lempicka  
Zee Leonard  
Sherrie Levine  
Sharon Lockhart  
Sarah Lucas  
Agnes Martin  
Ana  Mendita  
Natacha Merrit  
Annette Messenger  
Tracy Moffit  
Mariko Mori  
Sarah Morris  
Shirin Neshat  
Louise Nevelson  
Candy Noland  
   
O-Z  
   
Georgia O’Keefe  
Yoko Ono  
Meret Oppenheim  
Orlan  
Laura Owens  
Gina Pane  
Elizabeth Peyton  
Adrian Piper  
Germaine Richier  
Bridget Riley  
Pipilotti Rist  
Martha Rosier  
Susan Rothenberg  
Niki de Saint Phalle  
Julia Scher  
Carolee Schneemann  
Cindy Sherman  
Katharina Sieverding  
Kiki Smith  
Elaine Sturtevant  
Sam Taylor-Wood  
Rosemarie Trickel  
Adrian Varejao  
Kara Walker  
Gillian Wearing  

Pae White

 
Rachael Whiteread  
Hannah Wilke  
Jane and Louise Wilson  
Andrea Zittel  

 

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