“A fascinating collection of her best writings.” - Katy Deepwell, n.paradoxa “ Wet is a subversive take on the aesthetics and politics of art.” - Ms. Schor is gloriously fierce, often hilarious, and has boldly trod on powerful, or at least fashionably clad toes.” - Erica Rand, Bookforum

From the provocative 'Representations of the Penis,' which suggests novel readings of familiar images of masculinity and introduces new ones, to 'Appropriated Sexuality,' a trenchant analysis of David Salle’s depiction of women, Wet is a fascinating and informative collection.Ĭomplemented by over twenty illustrations, the essays in Wet reveal Schor’s remarkable ability to see and to make others see art in a radically new light. Articles range from discussions of contemporary women artists Ida Applebroog, Mary Kelly, and the Guerrilla Girls, to 'Figure/Ground,' an examination of utopian modernism’s fear of the 'goo' of painting and femininity. Collected here, these essays challenge established hierarchies of the art world of the 1980s and 1990s and document the intellectual and artistic development that have marked Schor’s own progress as a critic.īridging the gap between art practice, artwork, and critical theory, Wet includes some of Schor’s most influential essays that have made a significant contribution to debates over essentialism. 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. 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. Labor and Working-Class History Association.Association for Middle East Women's Studies.

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