Seeing Through the Seventies: Essays on Feminism and Art

ln recent years, Laura Cottingham has emerged as one of the most visible feminist critics to come out of the so-called post-feminist generation. This collection of her essays offers an expansive selection of Cottingham's always articulate and frequently controversial writings. They include an appraisal of the American art critic Lucy R. Lippard; a critique of masculinist bias in Modernist and Postmodernist visual culture; and exhaustive analysis of the curatorial failures implicit in the "Bad Girls" art exhibitions of the early 1990s; speculations on the current possibilities for recovering lesbian cultural history; and a careful examination of the life and work of the early twentieth-century French photographer Claude Cahun.