Girls! Girls! Girls! In Contemporary Art

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Introduction: The Girl in Contemporary Art
Catherine Grant and Lori Waxman
Through the Looking-Glass with Heart-Shaped Sunglasses: Searching for Alice and Lolita in Contemporary Representations of Girls
Lori Waxman
Dial ’P’ for Panties: Narrative Photography in the 1990s (with a New Afterword by the Author)
Lucy Soutter
Girlish Games: Playfulness and ’Drawingness’ in the Work of Francesca Woodman and Lucy Gunning
Harriet Riches
Marlene McCarty’s Murder Girls
Maud Lavin
Haunted: Writing with the Girl
Taru Elfving
Oh Mother Where Art Thou? Sue de Beer’s Hysterical Orphan Girls
Kate Random Love
Mi-girl, Mi-kick, Mi-fire, Mi-sin, Mi-soul, MI-WA: A Fairy Tale in Blue
Carol Mavor
Baby Butches and Reluctant Lolitas: Collier Schorr and Hellen van Meene
Catherine Grant
Author Biographies
“Tracking the figure of the girl across the fields of contemporary art and film, this book moves effortlessly between cultural criticism, art history, and feminist theory. Be forewarned, however: the girls in contemporary art are anything but docile or well-behaved. From baby butches to bad girls, from reluctant Lolitas to hysterical orphans, these girls make terrific trouble in the lavishly imagined worlds they inhabit. And the women who do that imagining? They are some of the leading artists and filmmakers of our day. And thanks to Girls! Girls! Girls!, they get their critical due.”
“Girls! Girls! Girls! is the missing link in the new feminist art history/criticism. It engages with that crucial and ambiguous period where children become women. In a way, one might say that girlhood lies at the root of Freud’s question ‘what do women want?,’ and at the same time that it mystifies this originary moment in women’s history. These texts hit the crucial questions in girl representation, running the whole gamut from charm to hysteria to murder.”
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