A Decade of Negative Thinking

Writings on the changing relationship between feminism and art production and criticism, and the impact of intergenerational struggle in the contemporary art world.

Preface

Introduction

Part 1:She Said, She Said: Feminist Debates, 1971–2009

The ism that dare not speak its name

Anonymity as a Political Tactic: Art Blogs, Feminism, Writing, and Politics

Generation 2.5

Email to a Young Woman Artist

The Womanhouse Films

Miss Elizabeth Bennett Goes to Feminist Boot Camp

Part 2:Painting

Some Notes on Women and Abstraction and a Curious Case History: Alice Neel as a Great Abstract Painter

Like a Veneer

Modest Painting

Blurring Richter

Off the Grid: Weather Conditions in Lower Manhattan, September 11, 2001 to October 2, 2001

Part 3:Trite Tropes

Trite Tropes, Clichés, or the Persistence of Styles

Recipe Art

Work and Play

New Tales of Scheherazade

Appendix: Work document: Grey

Notes

Bibliography

Index