| Description |
176 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm. |
| Series |
New Museum books
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| Note |
Exhibition held at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, March 30-July 2, 2000. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Body artist / Irving Lavin -- Notes on contemporary art images / Judith Stein, Laurie Fierstein, and Joanna Frueh -- Modern amazon / Laurie Fierstein -- Object lessons / Judith Stein -- 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, Rene Toney / Joanna Frueh -- Amazons in fiction : a bibliography / Pierre Samuel. |
| Subject |
Women bodybuilders -- Exhibitions.
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Women bodybuilders -- Pictorial works -- Exhibitions.
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Women -- Pictorial works -- Exhibitions.
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Women in art -- Exhibitions.
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| Added Author |
Frueh, Joanna.
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Fierstein, Laurie.
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Stein, Judith E.
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New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, N.Y.)
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| ISBN |
0847822478 |
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