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Nancy Spero(1st Edition)
Torture of Women
by Diana Nemiroff, Luisa Valenzuela, Lisa Pearson, Nancy Spero, Elaine Scarry, Nany Spero, Danielle Dutton
Hardcover, 156 Pages, Published 2010 by Siglio
ISBN-13: 978-0-9799562-2-5, ISBN: 0-9799562-2-6

"Nancy Spero - Torture of Women "Torture of Women," Spero's epic, 14 panels, 125-foot-long collage work, fuses startling imagery from ancient mythology with hand-printed and typewritten first-person testimonies of abuse--from ancient times through the present. This unique volume zooms in, translating the work into nearly 100 pages of detailed, legible reproductions."






Nancy Spero(1st Edition)
(Phaidon Contemporary Artist Series)
by Jon Bird, Jo Anna Isaak, 1926 -. New York, Alice Jardine, Sylvere Lotringer, Stanley Kubrick, Nancy Spero, Vv.Aa.
Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1996 by Phaidon Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7148-3340-8, ISBN: 0-7148-3340-1

"American artist Nancy Spero (b.1929) concentrates on the depiction of women: mythological women, movie women, tortured women. Inspired by classical and modern sources, she collages and imprints her contemporary goddesses on to long, papyrus-like friezes that scroll around museum walls. Her subject matter, which has ranged from the writings of Artaud to the Vietnam War, mirrors her life. Working in Paris in the cultural ferment of the 19 ..."






From the inside out(1st Edition)
Eight contemporary artists, Eleanor Antin ... [et al.]
by Arthur Coleman Danto, Susan Tumarkin Goodman, Arthur C. Danto, Christian Boltanski, Moshe Gershuni, Ilya Kabakov, Nancy Spero, Barbara Steinman, Lawrence Weiner, Jewish Museum
Paperback, 59 Pages, Published 1993 by Jewish Museum
ISBN-13: 978-0-87334-067-0, ISBN: 0-87334-067-1

"Softcover, 8vo, 59 pages, illustrated, some color, 28 cm. SUBJECT (S): Jewish artists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Exhibitions. Art, Modern -- 20th century -- New York (State) -- New York -- Exhibitions. Antin, Eleanor. "This catalogue has been published in conjunction with the exhibition From the Inside Out: Eight Contemporary Artists, June 13-November 14, 1993, organized by The Jewish Museum, New York"-Title page verso. "Eleanor ..."






Feminist Art Manifestos
An Anthology
by Katy Deepwell, Mierle Ukeles, Agnes Denes, Michelle Wallace, Nancy Spero, Monica Sjöö, Anne Berg, Rita Mae Brown, Valie Export, Maria Klonaris, Katerina Thomadaki, Carolee Schneemann, Zsuzsanna Emese Budapest, Ulrike Rosenbach, Ewa Partum, Chila Kumari Burman, Violetta Liagatchev, Lily Bea Moor, Dora García, Rhani Lee Remedes, Mette Ingvartsen, Xabier Arakistain, Julie Perini, Elizabeth M. Stephens, Annie Sprinkle, Lucia Tkáčová, Anetta Mona Chişa, Silvia Ziranek, Martine Syms, Eva And Co, Vns Matrix, Guerrilla Girls
132 Pages, Published 2014 by Kt Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-9926934-3-5, ISBN: 0-9926934-3-8

"Colomina, Carlos Labarta, Felicity D. Scott, Bernard Tschumi, Anthony Vidler,. With special thanks to Nancy Hynes, Daisy Lafarge and Celia Lacey for their help in preparing the ebook. Bibliography About manifestos Umbro Apollonio Futurist Manifestos (Tate Publishing, Limited, 2009) Umbro Apollonio (ed.and introduction) translated from Italian: RobertBrain, afterword by Richard Humphreys. Futurist manifestos (Boston, Mass: MFA, 2001 ..."






Beauty(9th Edition)
(Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art)
by Dave Beech, Dave Hickey, Wendy Steiner, Elaine Scarry, Kathleen Marie Higgins, Saul Ostrow, Alexander Alberro, Diurmuid Costello, Anna Dezeuze, Martin Donougho, James Elkins, David Raskin, Dominic Willsdon, Richard Woodfield, Griselda Pollock, Fredric Jameson, Jacques Derrida, Jason Gaiger, Jay Bernstein, Mark Cousins, Mark Hutchinson, Simon O'sullivan, Robert, Suzanne P. Hudson, Arthur C. Danto, Thierry De Duve, Theodor W. Adorno, T. J. Clark, Caroline A. Jones, John H. Roberts, Rosalind E. Krauss, Andy Warhol, Rasheed Araeen, Gerhard Richter, Paul Wood, Leon Golub, Nancy Spero, Agnes Martin, Alex Katz, John Currin, Rudolf Sagmeister, Christoph Grunenberg, Vito Acconci, Leo Fitzmaurice, Iwona Blazwick
Paperback, 239 Pages, Published 2009 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-51238-1, ISBN: 0-262-51238-6

"Beauty has emerged as one of the most hotly contested subjects in current discussions on art and culture. After more than half a century of suspicion and interrogation, beauty's resurgence in visual practice and discourse since the late 1980s has engaged some of the most influential artists and writers on art. From the avant-garde to the conceptual era, anti-aesthetic strat ..."






Walk Ways(1st Edition)
by Tom Marioni, Jim Campbell, George Bures Miller, Mowry Baden, Sharon Harper, Paul Ramirez Jonas, Martin Kersels, Curtis Mitchell, Francois Morelli, Douglas Ross, Rudolf Stingel, Janine Antoni, Janet Cardiff, Hamish Fulton, Nancy Spero, Richard Wentworth, Eleanor Antin, Matthew Mccaslin, Stuart Horodner, Francis Alys, Judith Richards
Hardcover, 72 Pages, Published 2002 by Independent Curators International, New York
ISBN-13: 978-0-916365-65-3, ISBN: 0-916365-65-4

"Walk Ways examines the ways in which a diverse group of artists has explored the theme of walking as an action and a metaphor. From Eleanor Antin, Janine Antoni, Janet Cardiff, and Hamish Fulton to Martin Kersels, Nancy Spero, Richard Wentworth, and others, the artists in Walk Ways consider walking as a purposeful or meandering activity that unites bodily and mental freedom, and "the walk" as a means of commenting on human agency, polit ..."






Art Of Mary Beth Edelson, The
by Laura Cottingham, Alissa Friedman, E. Ann Kaplan, Linda Aleci, Paul Bloodgood, Mary Beth Edelson, Nancy Spero, Carolee Schneemann, Contributor-Janet Henry, Contributor-Mimi Schapiro, Contributor-Yvette Brackman
Hardcover, 200 Pages, Published 2002 by Seven Cycles
ISBN-13: 978-0-9604650-7-1, ISBN: 0-9604650-7-3

"From the 70s ritual performances to the post-feminism of the new century, Mary Beth Edelson has been destabilizing preexisting representations of women. Whether in her version of the "Last Supper," in which Georgia O'Keeffe plays Christ to disciples Lee Krasner, Nancy Graves, Louise Bourgeois, and Yoko Ono; or in her performance "Cliffhanger," in which she hangs off a precipice; or in isolating images of "femmes fatales" of Hollywood fi ..."






M/E/A/N/I/N/G
An Anthology of Artists' Writings, Theory, and Criticism
by Susan Bee, Mira Schor, Amelia Jones, Corinne Robins, Barbara Pollack, Aviva Rahmani, Joanna Frueh, Laura Cottingham, Patricia Cronin, Faith Wilding, Marcia Hafif, Lucio Pozzi, Daryl Chin, Joel Fisher, Arakawa Gins, Madeline Gins, Emma Amos, Rudolf Baranik, Jackie Brookner, Vanalyne Green, Tom Knechtel, Nancy Spero, Joseph Nechvatal, Ann Mccoy, Richard Tuttle, David Reed, Pamela Wye, Whitney Chadwick, Dominique Nahas, Johanna Drucker
Hardcover, 496 Pages, Published 2000 by Duke University Press Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-2534-5, ISBN: 0-8223-2534-9

""M/E/A/N/I/N/G" brings together essays and commentary by over a hundred artists, critics, and poets, culled from the art magazine of the same name. The editors--artists Susan Bee and Mira Schor--have selected the liveliest and most provocative pieces from the maverick magazine that bucked commercial gallery interests and media hype during its ten-year tenure (1986-96) to explore visual pleasure with a culturally activist edge.With its e ..."






Otherworlds(1st Edition)
The Art of Nancy Spero and Kiki Smith
by Jon Bird, Nancy Spero, Kiki Smith, Rosetta Brookes, Sylvere Lotringer, Jo Anna Isaak, Marina Warner, Anne Reynolds
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2004 by Reaktion Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-188-4, ISBN: 1-86189-188-1

"Otherworlds accompanies a major exhibition of the work of two American artists - Nancy Spero and Kiki Smith - at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK, from 13 December 2003 to 30 March 2004. They are both prominent artists, from different generations, whose figurative art addresses issues of the feminine across history and mythology. The book explores thematic connections in their work - the female body, myth and fantas ..."






Nancy Spero
by Nancy Spero
Paperback, Published 1987 by Fruitmarket Gallery
ISBN-13: 978-0-947912-85-7, ISBN: 0-947912-85-1






Nancy Spero, Encounters(1st Edition)
by Joanna S. Walker, Nancy Spero
Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2011 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-4094-2043-9, ISBN: 1-4094-2043-4

"An original and valuable intervention in the fast-growing field of feminist and new art histories, "Nancy Spero, Encounters" offers a sophisticated interpretation of the work of a highly original and under-represented woman artist. The study proposes a new model of comparatism within the field of visual studies, mirroring and complementing Spero's dialogic manner of working. Basing her analyses on extensive research and multiple face-to ..."






Nancy Spero & Leon Golub
War And Memory
by Helaine Posner, Katy Kline, Leon Golub, Nancy Spero, Katy Klein, Valerie Morlot
Paperback, 104 Pages, Published 1995 by Mit List Visual Arts Center
ISBN-13: 978-0-938437-48-2, ISBN: 0-938437-48-8

"Leon Golub and Nancy Spero, artistic and marital partners for over 40 years, have created two sustained and uncompromising bodies of work that explore themes of power and vulnerability by confronting the social and political realities of our time. Golub's primary subject has been male aggression and its vulnerability; his large scale canvases are searing visions of brutality, violence and agony. Spero's art has been concerned with degre ..."






Nancy Spero
Cri du Coeur
by Lauren O'neill-Butler, Nancy Spero, Susan L. Stoops, Worcester Art Museum
Paperback, 69 Pages, Published 2013 by Worcester Atr Museum
ISBN-13: 978-0-936042-04-6, ISBN: 0-936042-04-4

"Worcester Art Museum Exhibition catalogue. "Nancy Spero: Cri du Couer". May 18 - October 13, 2013."






Nancy Spero
by E.A. Mcgregor, Elizabeth A. Macgregor, Nancy Spero
Hardcover, 32 Pages, Published 1999 by Ikon Gallery Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-0-907594-55-0, ISBN: 0-907594-55-7

"Nancy Spero at the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham 1998. Texy by Elizabeth A Macgregor and Catherine de Zegher"






Nancy Spero & Leon Golub
Notes In Time
by Jo Anna Isaak, Maurice Berger, Leon Golub, Nancy Spero
Hardcover, 48 Pages, Published 1995 by Center For Art And Visual Culture, Umbc
ISBN-13: 978-0-9624565-6-5, ISBN: 0-9624565-6-X

"Artwork by Leon Golub, Nancy Spero. Edited by Maurice Berger. Text by Jo Anna Isaak."






Nancy Spero by Nancy Spero and England Institute of Contemporary Arts London
by Nancy Spero, John Bird
Paperback, 71 Pages, Published 1987 by Co-Published By Ica/Fruitmarket Gallery / Orchard Gallery / Foyle Arts Project
ISBN-13: 978-0-905263-51-9, ISBN: 0-905263-51-0

"'The Laugh of the Medusa' (1975) as reprinted in New French Feminisms (see ... The Great Mother (1955) Princeton/Bollingen paperback edition 1972 p 168 25 ..."






Signs of Life
Ancient Knowledge in Contemporary Art
by Peter Fischer, Nancy Spero, Louise Bourgois, Philip Taaffe, Bharti Kher, Brigitt Bürgi, Louise Bourgeois, Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati, Christian Saint
Hardcover, 136 Pages, Published 2011 by Kehrer Verlag
ISBN-13: 978-3-86828-161-3, ISBN: 3-86828-161-4

"This catalog presents works of sixteen leading contemporary artists that refer to ancient pictorial forms, patterns and symbols: Adel Abdessemed, Marina Abramovic, Sanford Biggers, Louise Bourgeois, Peter Buggenhout, Nathalie Djurberg, Amar Kanwar, Bharti Kher, Sigalit Landau, Tea Mäkipää, Ana Mendieta, Mariella Mosler, Kiki Smith, Nancy Spero, Philip Taaffe, and Su-Mei Tse."






Nancy Spero
by Cristiana Perrella, Achille Bonito Oliva, Nancy Spero, Alessandra Mammì, Contributor-Alessandra Mammi, Tr. Shanti Evans, Alessandra Mammã­
Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 2009 by Charta
ISBN-13: 978-88-8158-744-5, ISBN: 88-8158-744-0

"After studying at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Fine Arts Academy of Paris, Nancy Spero distinguished herself as one of the most significant protagonists on the New York art scene, where she has lived and worked since 1964. Among the most prominent and influential figures in American art today, she has always been involved in feminist and peace movements, and has elaborated a language of painting that is intimately tied to social ..."






Nancy Spero(Reprint)
Acts of Rebellion
by Nancy Spero, Nils Ohlsen, Kiki Smith, Elsy Lahner, Janeke Utne, Dotty Attie, Astrid Ihle, Tobias Burg
Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2019 by Steidl/Museum Folkwang, Essen
ISBN-13: 978-3-95829-624-4, ISBN: 3-95829-624-6

"Based on key works from the artist’s estate, public institutions and private collections, Acts of Rebellion surveys the output of Nancy Spero (1926–2009), one of the most original female artists of the second half of the 20th century, spanning more than four decades. Acts of Rebellion also sheds light on the postwar New York art scene and on Spero’s role in particular, by allowing contemporary witnesses to speak.Combining collages, prin ..."






Nancy Spero(Illustrated)
by Mignon Nixon, Nancy Spero, Helene Cixous, Benjamin Buchloh, Clara Plasencia, Rosario Peiró, Clara Pladencia
Paperback, 191 Pages, Published 2008 by Museu D'art Contemporani De Barcelona
Illustrated
ISBN-13: 978-84-89771-60-4, ISBN: 84-89771-60-X

"Nancy Spero (born in Cleveland, Ohio, 1926) is a pioneer of feminist art and a key figure in the New York protest scene of the 1960s and 70s, as highly regarded as famed artists Martha Rosler and Adrian Piper. With a career spanning over 50 years, Spero continues even today to engage, question, and defy our current political, social and cultural scene. Her work has recently been exhibited throughout the US and Europe, including the last ..."



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