We’re about one week into Women’s History Month, and the annual rash of corporate marketing campaigns with a fundamental misunderstanding of gender and feminism is as embarrassing as ever!
| We’re about one week into Women’s History Month, and the annual rash of corporate marketing campaigns with a fundamental misunderstanding of gender and feminism is as embarrassing as ever! Though some artists and art writers are the worst offenders, others are here to pick up the slack. Our list of art books to read this March includes a new book by critics Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad, who work under the moniker The White Pube and mince no words in lampooning the absurdities of the art world. We also recommend curator and critic Lucy Lippard’s short fiction collection, a study of the chronically overlooked women who shaped 18th-century printmaking, and other must-read books.
Meanwhile, Lauren Moya Ford reviews a book on the life and legacy of Francesca Alexander, whose complex relationship with class and philanthropy manifests through her paintings of rural Italian life. Read her piece and more below, plus some gems from our archives in honor of the legions of women in art history who changed the game. In my own reading, I’ve been pondering the words of journalist and painter Prachi Gupta, whose memoir They Called Us Exceptional grapples with the weight of the model minority myth on South Asian women and how, in the face of it, art keeps her spirit alive. — Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Associate Editor | | |
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| | Delve into Lucy Lippard’s short fictions, Tamara Lanier’s indelible memoir, The White Pube’s tales of absurdity in the art world, new perspectives on Mucha, and more. | Hrag Vartanian, Hakim Bishara, Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Lisa Yin Zhang, Bridget Quinn, and Hannah Bonner |
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SPONSORED | | | | | A Handbook of Latinx Art explores the rich, deep, and often overlooked contributions Latinx artists have made to art in the United States. This volume includes texts by artists, critics, and scholars from the 1960s to the present that reflect the diversity of the Latinx experience.
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| | | Despite the often stifling influence of critic John Ruskin, Francesca Alexander dedicated her art and life’s work to the people of Tuscany. | Lauren Moya Ford |
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| | The American photographer offers a singular fusion of literary and photographic art in her autobiography Black Box. | Melissa Holbrook Pierson |
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| | This photo history of plants tackles the problem of how to pull ourselves out of the blind, anthropocentric march toward climate disaster. | Julia Curl |
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SPONSORED | | | | | Like many Canadian artists, writers, and intellectuals of his time, John Scott was a close watcher of America, with a front-row seat on a sometimes rogue nation. The new bookJohn Scott: Firestormpresents his searing critique of modernity’s capacity for industrial warfare and the machines that enable it.
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FROM THE ARCHIVE | | | This book unearths a trove of unseen images from the past two centuries. | Julia Curl |
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| | | Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image reminds us that feminist visions are abundant, and feminist critique is generative. | Sanoja Bhaumik |
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