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Catalog of exhibitions held at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, Jan. 14-Feb. 27 and Mar. 5-April 10, 1994. With essays by Marcia Tucker, Marcia Tanner, Linda Goode Bryant, and Cheryl Dunye "Bad Girls is a serious exhibition about the plurality of contemporary feminist art. . . . Tucker should be congratulated for staking her territory smack in the middle of current feminist debates." -- "The Village Voice" "Bad Girls' satirical sendup of feminism is refreshing . . . excess and outrageousness is the rule." -- "The New York Observer"Unconventional and distinctly "unladylike, " Bad Girls considers many issues and controversies raised by the recent exhibitions "Bad Girls" and "Bad Girls West, " mounted in New York and Los Angeles respectively. But the central issues it examines are humor, transgression, and the critical and constructive potential of laughter in the work of a new generation of Bad Girls. Humor is the connecting force between the 45 artists in "Bad Girls, " and it is clear that they express themselves in ways that their mothers probably would not have approved of. But they don't care.
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Bad Girls, Marcia Tucker
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- Released
- 1994
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- Title
- Bad Girls
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Marcia Tucker
- Publisher
- Mit Pr
- Released
- 1994
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 144
- ISBN10
- 0262700530
- ISBN13
- 9780262700535
- Series
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- Art
- Rating
- 4.3 out of 5
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- Catalog of exhibitions held at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, Jan. 14-Feb. 27 and Mar. 5-April 10, 1994. With essays by Marcia Tucker, Marcia Tanner, Linda Goode Bryant, and Cheryl Dunye "Bad Girls is a serious exhibition about the plurality of contemporary feminist art. . . . Tucker should be congratulated for staking her territory smack in the middle of current feminist debates." -- "The Village Voice" "Bad Girls' satirical sendup of feminism is refreshing . . . excess and outrageousness is the rule." -- "The New York Observer"Unconventional and distinctly "unladylike, " Bad Girls considers many issues and controversies raised by the recent exhibitions "Bad Girls" and "Bad Girls West, " mounted in New York and Los Angeles respectively. But the central issues it examines are humor, transgression, and the critical and constructive potential of laughter in the work of a new generation of Bad Girls. Humor is the connecting force between the 45 artists in "Bad Girls, " and it is clear that they express themselves in ways that their mothers probably would not have approved of. But they don't care.