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A mental masquerade : when Brian O'Doherty was a female art critic : Mary Josephson's collected writings

Title
  1. A mental masquerade : when Brian O'Doherty was a female art critic : Mary Josephson's collected writings / Thomas Fischer & Astrid Mania (eds.).
Published by
  1. Leipzig : Spector Books, 2019.
Author
  1. Josephson, Mary (Art critic)

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Additional authors
  1. Fischer, Thomas
  2. Mania, Astrid, 1965-
  3. O'Doherty, Brian
Description
  1. 83 pages; 21 cm
Summary
  1. "'A Mental Masquerade' gathers work by art critic Mary Josephson, most of it written between 1971 and 1973. Mary Josephson does not exist. She is one of the many alter egos of notorious artist and theorist Brian O'Doherty, looking to liberate himself from the constraints of malehood and the social constraints of the art world. Josephson was a brilliant observer, a witty and fearless writer. Her reviews shed a light on New York's art scene in the 1970s. This publication hopes to stimulate further research that might want to contextualize Mary Josephson within debates around notions such as gender, and authorship"--Page 2 of cover.
Subject
  1. Art criticism
  2. Essays
  3. Aesthetics in literature > 20th century
  4. Authorship > History > 20th century
  5. Institutional Critique (Art movement)
  6. History
  7. 1900-1999
  8. Art, Modern
  9. Art criticism > History > 20th century
Genre/Form
  1. History.
  2. Essays.
Contents
  1. Lapidus' pornography of comfort -- Warhol: the medium as cultural artifact -- Joplin and Hendrix: a note on the rhetoric of death -- Richard Tuttle at Betty Parsons -- Richard Artschwager at Castelli -- de Kooning at Janis, Raphael Soyer at Forum -- Ray Johnson at Betty Parsons -- Paul Waldman at Castelli -- John Marin at Alpha Gallery -- The history of X.
Call number
  1. JFD 21-1047
Note
  1. Includes "A mental masquerade" by Astrid Mania and "Divesting the self: a striptease" by Brian O'Doherty.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references.
Author
  1. Josephson, Mary (Art critic), author.
Title
  1. A mental masquerade : when Brian O'Doherty was a female art critic : Mary Josephson's collected writings / Thomas Fischer & Astrid Mania (eds.).
Publisher
  1. Leipzig : Spector Books, 2019.
Edition
  1. First edition.
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references.
Chronological term
  1. 1900-1999
Added author
  1. Fischer, Thomas, editor.
  2. Mania, Astrid, 1965- editor.
  3. O'Doherty, Brian, writer of added commentary.
ISBN
  1. 9783959052276 (paperback)
  2. 3959052278 (paperback)
Research call number
  1. JFD 21-1047
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