Heresies Article Index
Issue #4 – Women’s Traditional Arts/The Politics of Aesthetics
Artist/Author | Title | Page(s) |
Kaplan, Flora | Mexican Folk Pottery | 1 |
Editorial Group | From The editorial Group | 2 |
Friedlander, Judith | The Aesthetics of Oppression | 3-9 |
Bovenschen, Silvia | Is There a feminine Aesthetic? | 10-12 |
Riley, Elizabeth | Quilt Poem | 13 |
Russ, Joanna | Women Talking, Women Thinking | 14-15 |
Ladden, Arlene | The Martyr Arts | 16-18 |
Rickey. Carrie | The Straits of Literature and History | 19-21 |
Anonymous | The Picture Competition | 20-21 |
Pindell, Howardena | Afro-Carolinian “Gullah” Baskets | 22 |
De Lauretis, Teresa | The Left Hand of History | 23-26 |
Burnside, Madeleine | Weaving | 27 |
Various | Political Fabrications: Women’s Textiles in Five Cultures | 28-37 |
Weaver’s work basket and spindles | 29 | |
Fragment of Tiahuanaco tapestry shirt | 30 | |
Elements of the Taniko design pattern used to decorate the borders of woven cloaks | 31 | |
Maori women weaving | 32 | |
Male style blanket, The Chilkat Blanket | 32 | |
Female style blanket | 33 | |
Chief Pattern Blanket in red, blue, white, and brown | 34 | |
Chief Pattern Blanket in predominantly red, black, and white | 34 | |
Wedge-weave style in red, blue, and white | 34 | |
Eye-Dazzler in black, white, red, and green | 34 | |
Panel of Venetian bobbin lace | 35 | |
Bobbin pillow used in making bobbin lace | 36 | |
Jaudon, Valerie and Kozloff, Joyce | Art Hysterical Notions of Progress and Culture | 38-42 |
Nochlin, Linda | Excerpts from Women and the Decorative Arts | 43 |
Grabenhorst-Randall, Terree | The Woman’s Building | 44-46 |
Ground Plan Woman’s Building | 45 | |
Gallery Plan Woman’s Building | 45 | |
Hangings embroidered in the school of Mme. Luce Ben-Aben. Moorish girls and women of Algiers. | 46 | |
Jaqueman, Clara | Fan with Mother-of-Pearl handle in Rococo Style | 46 |
Novak, Barbara | Ten Ways to Look at a Flower | 47 |
Gear, Josephine | Trapped Women: Two Sister Designers, Margaret and Frances MacDonald | 48-51 |
Weiss, Peg | Adelaide Alsop Robineau: Ceramist from Syracuse | 52-53 |
Robineau, Adelaide Alsop | Poppy Vase | 52 |
Robineau, Adelaide Alsop | Scarab Vase–Apotheosis of the Toiler | 52 |
Robineau, Adelaide Alsop | Eggshell Coupe | 52 |
Keller, Martha | Women of the Bauhaus | 54-56 |
Albers, Anni | Knotted rug | 54 |
Brandt, Marianne | Spherical Lighting fixture | 55 |
Brandt, Marianne | Small pot for tea essence | 55 |
Buscher, Alma | Children’s Room Dresser | 56 |
Stolzl, Gunta | Tapestry | 56 |
Herrera, Hayden | Portrait of Frida Kahlo as a Tehuana | 57-58 |
Kahlo, Frida | Self Portrait | 57 |
Muray, Nicholas | Group Portrait | 57 |
Frida Kahlo’s Tehuana dress displayed in the room in which she was born | 58 | |
Garrard, Mary D. | Feminism: Has it Changed Art History? | 59-60 |
Castanis, Muriel | Are You a Closet Collector? | 61 |
Lippard, Lucy R. | Making Something from Nothing | 62-65 |
Centerpiece | 62 | |
Cecropia leaf hat | 63 | |
Tillie the Tuna Tyke (string holder from a tuna can) | 64 | |
Feathered hibiscus with centers made of hackles, broom straws and stamen. | 65 | |
Meyer, Melissa and Schapiro, Miriam | Waste Not/Want Not: Femmage | 66-69 |
Noguere, Suzanne | Sewing With My Great-Aunt Leonie Amestoy | 70 |
Siskind, Elli | The Apron: Status Symbol of Stitchery Sample? | 71 |
Edelheit, Martha (compiled by) | Conversations and Reminiscences | 72-87 |
Ida Wright in her garden | 72 | |
Dora Schochet with embroidery/applique work | 73 | |
Georgina Garcia and her daughter Mayra | 74 | |
Cross-stitch sample by Georgina Garcia | 74 | |
Mrs. Dora Bund with knitted covers | 75 | |
Sarah Mandell doing needle work | 76 | |
Sarah Mandell and Enid Aljoe with collaborative piece | 76 | |
Phyllis Thompson, Mrs. Dora Lucinda Johnson and Mrs. Kathline Idella Thompson | 77 | |
Evening dress designed by Else Graupe | 78 | |
Else Graupe in suit she designed and made | 78 | |
Installation Shot: Five from Louisiana | 78 | |
Barbara Schaff | 80 | |
Ceramic bowl by Barbara Schaff | 80 | |
Vivian O’David | 80 | |
Lois Gerb | 80 | |
Pat Frank | 81 | |
Adele Blumberg | 81 | |
Blumberg, Adele | Embroidered Pillowcase | 81 |
Joan Wortis | 81 | |
Alice Watters Beebe | 82 | |
Beebe, Alice Watters | Stenciled tray | 82 |
Madame Willi Posey | 85 | |
Madame Willi Posey | 85 | |
Celia | 85 | |
Braun, Marjorie | Rose Pattern in fillet crochet on corner of tablecloth | 86 |
Braun, Emma | Hooked rug, scroll design | 86 |
King, Paula | The Takeover of Eden or A Little Knowledge Is a Dangerous Thing | 86 |
Bayard, Sarah Lyman (photographic arrangement) | 87 | |
Shapiro, Dee | Grandma Sarah Bakes | 88 |
Patterson, Patricia | Aran Kitchens, Aran Sweaters | 89-92 |
Aziz, Barbara Nimri | Nepal Hill Art and Women’s Traditions | 93-95 |
Teilhet, Jehanne H. | The Equivocal Role of Women Artists in Non-Literature Cultures | 96-102 |
Wood, Sharon; Emmons, Zette; Moser, Erika | Women’s Art in Village India | 103-07 |
Stern, Evelyn | Pages From an Asian Notebook | 108-11 |
Berry, Carolyn | Quill Art | 112-13 |
Martin, Mary A. | Turkmen Women, Weaving and Cultural Change | 114-15 |
MacGaffey, Janet | Kongo Pottery: Woman’s Art from Zaire | 116 |
Maksymowicz, Virginia | Myth and the Sexual Division of Labor | 116-17 |
Selections from: Recitation of the Yoruba Bride | 118 | |
Hollister, Valerie and Weatherford, Elizabeth | “By the Lakeside there is an Echo:” Towards a History of Women’s Traditional Arts | 119-23 |
Weatherford, Elizabeth (compiled by) | Bibliography | 124-25 |
Advertisements | 126-27 | |
Contributors | 128 | |
Upcoming Issues/ Call for Work | 129 |