UNIT 8: THE ABJECT IN POSTMODERN ART

Assigned Readings:

Taylor, Simon. "The Phobic Object: Abjection in Contemporary Art," in Ben Levi, J., Homer, C. Jones, CL. and Taylor, S. eds. Abject Art Repulsion and Desire in American Art. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art Exhibition Catalogue, 1993.

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Mulvey, Laura. "A Phantasmagoria of the Female Body The Work of Cindy Sherman," New Left Review No. 188 (July-August 1991), 136-150.
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Jones, Leslie C. "Transgressive Feminity: Art and Gender in the Sixties and Seventies,' 33-58 in Ben Levi, J., Houser, C., Jones, L C., and Taylor, 5. (1993) Abject Art Renulsion and Desire in American Art. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art exh. cat.
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[Jones discusses the use of the abject/transgressive in male and female artistic practices to show that male artists are celebrated for theft exploration of the femininity" (40) in themselves, while women artists are seen as "stereotypically feminine" (43) when they explore comparable body images. Artists covered include: Lee Bontecou, Claes Oldenberg, Yayoi Kusama, Robert Morris, Eva Hesse, Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Carolee Schneeman, Hannah Wilke, Cindy Sherman and May Wilson.]

CINDY SHERMAN
1985    UNTITLED # 156
1987    UNTITLED # 168
1987    UNTITLED # 169
1987 UNTITLED # 175/DETAIL SUNGLASSES

1992    UNTITLED # 250
1992    UNTITLED # 261
1992    UNTITLED
1992    UNTITLED # 263

KIKI SMITH
1992    VIRGIN MARY
1992    TALE
1992    PEE BODY
1993    TRAIN
1993    MILKY WAY