Picturing the modern amazon / edited by Joanna Frueh, Laurie Fierstein, and Judith Stein.

Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Rizzoli, 2000.
Description176 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm.
Subjects
Women bodybuilders--Exhibitions.
Women bodybuilders--Pictorial works. --Exhibitions.
Women--Exhibitions.
Women--Pictorial works. --Exhibitions.
Women in art--Exhibitions.

Other author/creatorFrueh, Joanna.
Other author/creatorFierstein, Laurie.
Other author/creatorStein, Judith E.
Other author/creatorNew Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, N.Y.)
SeriesNew Museum books
New Museum books. ^A465701
Contents Preface : The body artist / Irving Lavin -- Notes on contemporary art images / Judith Stein, Laurie Fierstein, and Joanna Frueh -- Introduction. The modern amazon / Laurie Fierstein ; Object lessons / Judith Stein ; The real nude / Joanna Frueh -- Bring on the amazons : an evolutionary history / Jan Todd -- Women's bodybuilding : a contemporary history / Steve Wennerstrom -- Ghettos of obscurity : individual sovereignty and the struggle for recognition in female bodybuilding / Leslie Heywood -- Toward a new aesthetics of body for the modern woman / Al Thomas -- Dream girl / Michael Cunningham -- Hardcore : the radical self-portraiture of black female bodybuilders / Carla Williams -- My muscles, myself : selected autobiographical writings / Nathalie Gassel -- Female muscularity and the comics / Maxine Sheets-Johnstone -- Comments on the comics / Laurie Fierstein and Joanna Frueh -- Interviews with women bodybuilders : Pudgy Stockton, Bev Francis, Lenda Murray, Andrulla Blanchette, René Toney / Joanna Frueh -- Amazons in fiction : a bibliography / Pierre Samuel.
General noteExhibition held at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, March 30-July 2, 2000.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 00688602
ISBN0847822478

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Joyner General Stacks GV546.6 .W64 P53 2000 ✔ Available Place Hold