Taking aim at the mostly male bastion of art theory and criticism, Mira Schor brings a maverick perspective and provocative voice to the issues of contemporary painting, gender representation, and feminist art. Writing from her dual perspective of a practicing painter and art critic, Schor's writing has been widely read over the past fifteen years in "Artforum," "Art Journal," "Heresies," and "M/E/A/N/I/N/G," a journal she coedited. Collected here, these essays""challenge established hierarchies of the art world of the 1980s and 1990s and document the intellectual and artistic development...

Taking aim at the mostly male bastion of art theory and criticism, Mira Schor brings a maverick perspective and provocative voice to the issues of contemporary painting, gender representation, and feminist art. Writing from her dual perspective of a practicing painter and art critic, Schor's writing has been widely read over the past fifteen years in "Artforum," "Art Journal," "Heresies," and "M/E/A/N/I/N/G," a journal she coedited. Collected here, these essays""challenge established hierarchies of the art world of the 1980s and 1990s and document the intellectual and artistic development...

M/E/A/N/I/N/G brings together essays and commentary by over a hundred artists, critics, and poets, culled from the art magazine of the same name. The editors artists Susan Bee and Mira Schor have selected the liveliest and most provocative pieces from the maverick magazine that bucked commercial gallery interests and media hype during its ten-year tenure (1986 96) to explore visual pleasure with a culturally activist edge.
With its emphasis on artists perspectives of aesthetic and social issues, this anthology provides a unique opportunity to enter into the fray of the most hotly...

M/E/A/N/I/N/G brings together essays and commentary by over a hundred artists, critics, and poets, culled from the art magazine of the same name. The editors artists Susan Bee and Mira Schor have selected the liveliest and most provocative pieces from the maverick magazine that bucked commercial gallery interests and media hype during its ten-year tenure (1986 96) to explore visual pleasure with a culturally activist edge.
With its emphasis on artists perspectives of aesthetic and social issues, this anthology provides a unique opportunity to enter into the fray of the most hotly...

A Decade of Negative Thinking brings together writings on contemporary art and culture by the painter and feminist art theorist Mira Schor. Mixing theory and practice, the personal and the political, she tackles questions about the place of feminism in art and political discourse, the aesthetics and values of contemporary painting, and the influence of the market on the creation of art. Schor writes across disciplines and is committed to the fluid interrelationship between a formalist aesthetic, a literary sensibility, and a strongly political viewpoint. Her critical views are...

A Decade of Negative Thinking brings together writings on contemporary art and culture by the painter and feminist art theorist Mira Schor. Mixing theory and practice, the personal and the political, she tackles questions about the place of feminism in art and political discourse, the aesthetics and values of contemporary painting, and the influence of the market on the creation of art. Schor writes across disciplines and is committed to the fluid interrelationship between a formalist aesthetic, a literary sensibility, and a strongly political viewpoint. Her critical views are...