Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 13:00:56 -0700 From: "Kathleen O'Grady" <kogrady-AT-ucalgary.ca> Subject: Kristeva Forgive the cross-post, but I thought some might be interested. Do not respond to me but to the original poster. Kathy > -----Original Message----- > From: Mary Jo Aagerstoun <mjaag-AT-wam.umd.edu> > To: feminist art history listserv <fah-AT-netdreams.com> > Date: Monday, March 22, 1999 9:16 AM > Subject: new NOMADS/"Massage" address > > >Some of you have been having trouble accessing "Massage," the online art > >journal that will house the special issue on "The Monstrous Feminine" from > >June 1- Sept 1. Please try one of the following addresses. If you try > >the first, just click on "Massage" once you get in. And if you have > >problems, please let me know. > > > >www.nomadnet.org (click on MASSAGE) > > > >or > > > >www.nomadnet.org/massage.html > > > >The issue is looking very exciting. To refresh your memory, the special > >issue of "Massage" on the Monstrous Feminine proceeds from the theoretical > >work of Julia Kristeva (esp. her essay "The Power of Horror") and Barbara > >Creed (a film theorist who invented the term "monstrous feminine" and > >builds her argument on the Kristeva notion of the "abject" as she > >articulated it in her Powers of Horror essay). > > > >So far I have submissions re: Orlan and Medusa; "framing" the monstrous > >feminine, or how women artists' use of monstrous feminine imagery > >challenges phallocentric "framing" (this essay cites Jenny Saville, Jo > >Spence and Cindy Sherman as examples); the history of filth and > >cleanliness in urban US and its connection with domesticity and social > >control of women; Nicole Demerin's large format color photographs of > >staged enactments/updates/appropriations of the femme fatale and > >mythological female monsters and their connection with the 19th Century > >"gothic" aesthetic and contemporary feminist concerns; and Yayoi Kusama > >as/and the monstrous feminine. I am waiting now for a submission from Gaye > >Chan on her work re: the Lesbian Body and/as monstrous feminine; and a > >piece on Faith Ringgold's "Monstrous Women" quilt now in the traveling > >retrospective (currently in Baltimore), possibly compared with AFrican > >American artists' use of Aunt Jemima as warrior/liberator, and (an only > >recently discovered) sculpture of "War" as the monstrous feminine by > >Augusta Savage. In the Project Room we will be featuring the "Anatomical > >Garments" of Swiss artist Barbara Graf that explore the "monstrous" > >feminine body as prison, but a "prison" that can be deconstructed. > > > >Look for it on the web in June. And please send me your reactions! > > > > > >+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > +++ > >Mary Jo Aagerstoun > >University of Maryland at College Park > >mjaag-AT-wam.umd.edu > >NB! If sending attachments, please use this email address: > >maryjo-AT-mathisnet.com > >+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > +++ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Kathleen O'Grady Department of Religious Studies University of Calgary Social Sciences 1308 2500 University Dr. NW Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4 Canada Phone: (403) 220-7063 Fax: (403) 210-0801 Email: kogrady-AT-ucalgary.ca or ko10001-AT-hermes.cam.ac.uk --- from list french-feminism-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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