Bad Girls

Author: Marcia Tucker
Secondary Author: New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, N.Y.)
ISBN: 9780262700535

with essays by Marcia Tucker, Marcia Tanner, Linda Goode Bryant, and Cheryl Dunye 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.Bad Girls addresses questions of gender, race, class, age, and sex by challenging conventional ideas about motherhood, food, fashion, beauty, work, marriage, and psychoanalysis. Using humor as a subversive weapon and having a field day with cosmetic aids and transgressive bodies, the artists in Bad Girls draw from the issues that concern artist

Publisher: New Museum of Contemporary Art
Publish Date: 1994

Subjects: Art / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Visual/Performing Arts)