Karla Huebner’s Feminist Art History Bibliography:
The Feminist 1970s

HESE ARTICLES and books deal with feminism in art during the 1970s, primarily in the United States. If this period interests you, you should also see the pages on individual artists, as most of them were active then. There are several articles here in French and Italian, and one in both Spanish and English.

General References

Alloway, Lawrence. “Women’s Art in the ’70s,” Art in America 64, no. 3 (May–June 1976), 64–72.

Art: A Woman’s Sensibility. Feminist Art Program, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, 1975.

Baker, Elizabeth. “Sexual Art Politics,” Art News 69, no. 9 (January 1971), 47–49, 60–62.

Chamberlain, Betty. “Sexism in Art,” American Artist 36, issue 362 (September 1972), 60, 69.

Crawford, Lynda. “Women in the Erotic Arts,” Viva (January 1974), 74–83.

Dallier, Aline, trans. Gloria Orenstein. “Fear of Feminism in France,” Feminist Art Journal 4, no. 1 (Spring 1975), 15–18, 30.

Douglass College. 1981–1982 Schedule, Women Artists Series, Douglass College.

Goldberg, Donna Lee. “The Douglass College Library Program,” Womanart 1, no. 3 (Winter–Spring 1977), 51, 40.

Hartman, Rose. “Feminists Are Talking About,” Feminist Art Journal 4, no. 1 (Spring 1975), 49–50.

Henry, Gerrit. “The Artist and the Face: A Modern American Sampling.” Art in America 63, no. 1 (January/February 1975), 34–41.

________. “Views from the Studio,” Art News 75, no. 5 (May 1976), 32–36.

Kincaid, Jamaica. “Erotica!” Ms. 3, no. 7 (January 1975), 30–33.

Lippard, Lucy. “New York Letter,” Art International 9, no. 3 (April 1965), 48–64.

________. “Sexual Politics, Art Style.” Art in America 59, no. 5 (September–October 1971), 19–20.

Lucie-Smith, Edward. Art in the Seventies. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1980.

Lyons, Harriet. “Female Eroticists: Stirrings of Sexuality.” Village Voice 17 (April 27, 1972), 1, 24, 26, 42.

Manso, Susan. “Toward Greater Visibility: The New York Professional Women Artists,” Feminist Art Journal 4, no. 2 (Summer 1975), 21–24.

Manso, Susan. “The Year of the Woman,” Feminist Art Journal 4, no. 1 (Spring 1975), 34–36.

Moss, Irene. “On Models,” Feminist Art Journal 1, no. 2 (Fall 1972), 7, 22.

Nemser, Cindy. “Art Criticism and Gender Prejudice,” Arts Magazine 46, no. 5 (March 1972), 44–46.

________. “The Close Up Vision—Representational Art—Part II,” Arts Magazine 46 (May 1972), 44–48.

________. “Focusing on Focus,” Feminist Art Journal 3, no. 1 (Spring 1974), 22.

________. “Four Artists of Sensuality.” Arts Magazine 49, no. 7 (March 1975), 73–75.

________. “An Interview with Members of A.I.R.” Arts Magazine 47, no. 3 (Dec–Jan 1973), 58–59.

________. “The Male Nude Arrives at Last,” Changes no. 75 (July 1972), 14–15.

________. “Representational Painting in 1971: A New Synthesis,” Arts Magazine 46, no. 3 (December 1971–January 1972), 41–46.

________. “Towards a Feminist Sensibility: Contemporary Trends in Women’s Art,” Feminist Art Journal 5, no. 2 (Summer 1976), 19–23.

________. “The Women’s Conference at the Corcoran,” Art in America 61, no. 1 (January–February 1973), 86–90.

________. “Women’s Art: 1975,” Shantih 3, no. 3, (Fall–Winter 1976), 42–45.

Queens Museum. Sons and Others: Women Artists See Men. Queens Museum, Flushing, New York, 19-.

Palazzoli, Daniela. “Minus Times Minus Equals Plus,” Domus (March 1973), 47–69.

Raven, Arlene. “Two Decades of the Feminist Art Movement,” Ms. 3, 1 (July/August 1992), 68–73.

Robert Schoelkopf Gallery. Living American Artists and the Figure. Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, 1974.

Robins, Corinne. The Pluralist Era, American Art 1968–1981. Harper and Row, 1984.

Rose, Barbara. “Filthy Pictures,” Artforum 3, no. 8 (May 1965), 20–25.

Rose, Barbara. “Vaginal Iconology,” New York Magazine 7, no. 6 (February 11, 1974), 59.

Rosen, Randy, Catherine C. Brawer, Ellen G. Landau, Thomas McEvilley, Ferris Olin, Judith E. Stein, Calvin Tomkins, Marcia Tucker, and Ann-Sargent Wooster. Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move into the Mainstream, 1970–85. Abbeville Press, New York, 1989.

Rousseau, Ann Marie. “The Women Artists’ Series: An Interview with Lynn Miller,” Feminist Art Journal 5, no. 1 (Spring 1976), 33–36.

Schnapper, K.D. “Contemporary Issues: Works on Paper by Women,” Feminist Art Journal 6, no. 2 (Summer 1977), 48.

Sebestyen, Amanda. “Sex, Power, & Art,” Spare Rib, 43–5?

Seiberling, Dorothy. “The Female View of Erotica,” New York Magazine 7, no. 6 (February 11, 1974), 54–58.

Seiberling, Dorothy. “The New Sexual Frankness: Goodbye to Hearts and Flowers,” New York Magazine 8, no. 7 (February 17, 1975), 37–44.

Semmel, Joan, and April Kingsley. “Sexual Imagery in Women’s Art,” Woman’s Art Journal 1, no. 1 (Spring–Summer 1980), 1–6.

University of Colorado, Boulder. Six Painters of the Figure. Department of Fine Arts, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1979. Text by Jean-Edith Weiffenbach.

Van Baron, Judith. The Year of the Woman: Reprise. Essay by Patricia Sloane. The Bronx, NY, Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1976.

Vogel, Lise. “Fine Arts and Feminism: The Awakening Consciousness,” Feminist Studies 2, no. 1 (1974), 3–37.

Webb, Peter. The Erotic Arts. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1983.

Zucker, Barbara. “Artists’ Choice: Figurative Art in New York,” ArtNews 76, no. 2 (February 1977), 128.

Articles in French

Arbour, Rose-Marie. “Art et Féminisme,” Cahiers des Arts Visuels au Québec 4, no. 13 (Spring 1982).

Arbour, Rose-Marie and Lemerise, Suzanne. “Le rôle des Québécoises dans les arts plastiques depuis trente ans,” Vie des Arts no. 78 (Spring 1975), 16–22?.

Dallier, Aline. “La Critique, les femmes et l’art,” Opus no. 70–1 (Winter 1979), 80–1.

________. “Le Feminist art aux U.S.A.,” Opus no. 50 (May 1974), 70–5.

________. “Le Mouvement des femmes dans l’art,” Opus no. 66–7 (Spring 1978), 35–41.

Eliet, Françoise. “Cinq Américaines: peinture—travail de femmes,” Art Press 17 (March–April 1975), 20–21.

Roy, Hélène. “Question d’art, d’art féminin, d’art féministe ou autre,” Cahiers des Arts Visuels au Québec 4, no. 13 (Spring 1982).

Articles in Italian

Boetti, Anne-Marie. “L’altra creativitá,” Data (July–August 1975), Milan, 54–9.

________. “Lo specchio ardente,” Data (September–October 1975), Milan, 50–5.

Ciardi, Nives. “Donne, creatività contraddizioni,” Domus no. 557 (April 1976), 60, 65. (50-w exh in Copenhagen)

Article in Spanish and English

Moser, Charlotte. “El Mundo Interior y Exterior del Movimiento Artistico Femenino (The Inner and Outer World of the Women’s Art Movement),” Artes Visuales no. 9, (Spring 1976), 37–42, 65–68.

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