Woman's Art Journal Volume 32, Number 1

Spring/Summer 2011

2 Parallel Perspectives
By Joan Marter and Margaret Barlow

3 Cosmology and Transformation in the Work of Michelle Stuart
By Christine Filippone

13 Mimi Smith: Fashioning Art and Life
By Susan Earle

22 Janet Culbertson: The Toxic Wilderness
By Joyce Beckenstein

30 Magdalena Abakanowicz and Development of the Figure in Postwar Polish Sculpture
By Aneta Biesiadecka

39 Alina Szapocznikow and Her Sculpture of Plastic Impermanence
By Amy Chmielewski

48 Nancy Spero: The Work By Christopher Lyon
Nancy Spero: Codex Nancy Spero Edited by Roel Arkesteijn
Nancy Spero: Torture of Women By Diana Nemiroff and Elaine Scarry
Nancy Spero: Dissidances By Nancy Spero, et al
Reviewed by Deborah Frizzell

52 Unsettled Visions: Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary By Margo Machida
Reviewed by Alexandra Chang

53 Eva Hesse Spectres 1960 Edited By E. Luanne McKinnon
Eva Hesse: Longing, Belonging and Displacement By Vanessa Corby
Reviewed by Rachel Epp Buller

55 Angels of Anarchy: Women Artists and Surrealism Edited by Patricia Allmer
Reviewed by Robert Belton

57 Surreal Friends, Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo and Kati Horna By Stefan van Raay, et al
Reviewed by Pamela H. Simpson

59 Imagining la Chica Moderna By Joanne Hershfield
Becoming Modern, Becoming Tradition By Adriana Zavala
Reviewed by Alison Fraunhar

61 Dada’s Women By Ruth Hemus
Reviewed by Melissa Johnson

63 Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subject By Kirsten Pai Buick
Reviewed by Jennifer Wingate

65 Mrs. Delany and Her Circle Edited by Mark Laird and Alicia Weisberg-Roberts
Reviewed by Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell

67 Short Takes
Anne Truitt: Perception and Reflection By Kristen Hileman
Reviewed by Vittorio Colaizzi

String, Felt, Thread: The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art By Elissa Auther
Reviewed by Mary C. Simpson

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard: Artist in the Age of Revolution By Laura Auricchio
Women Gallerists in the 20th and 21st Centuries By Claudia Herstatt
Reviewed by Nina Gara Bozicnik