Archives and Resources for Feminist Research
A list of selected archives, books, and online resources related to feminist art and research at the Getty Research Institute.
Created: 2017, updated 2018
Authors: Marissa Clifford, Anja Foerschner, Kayleigh Perkov, and John Tain
Created: 2017, updated 2018
Authors: Marissa Clifford, Anja Foerschner, Kayleigh Perkov, and John Tain
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Overview
The Getty Research Institute is a rich repository of resources for those interested in studying art and feminism. Its Special Collections hold the archives of eminent artists, writers, and curators whose work—while not necessarily self-identified as feminist—had an impact on feminist art since the 1960s. These collections—which include the papers of Eleanor Antin, Harmony Hammond, the Guerrilla Girls, Cindy Nemser, Yvonne Rainer, Carolee Schneemann, Sylvia Sleigh, Barbara T. Smith, and Marcia Tucker—offer insight into the development of these artists' and writers' practice. Drawings, scripts, or photographs allow for the study of ephemeral works such as performance, happenings, or dance, to which the artists brought innovative approaches, while letters and notes give an account of day-to-day thoughts related to projects, personal matters, and professional exchanges.
Other notable archives at the Research Institute document New York's legendary performance space The Kitchen, in which several of the abovementioned artists were active, and Miranda July's feminist film chain letter Joanie 4 Jackie. The library's holdings of key literature—such as High Performance magazine and The Feminist Art Journal—and exhibition catalogs complement and contextualize the narratives of individual archives.
In addition, the highly active feminist art scene in Southern California is represented in the Long Beach Museum of Art Video Archive and in collections related to the Woman's Building in downtown Los Angeles. Processing and preservation of the latter received support from a grant by the Save America's Treasures program, an interagency federal initiative led by the National Park Service and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
This research guide is intended to serve as an introduction to research on archives and collections related to feminist art at the Getty Research Institute, and is not a comprehensive bibliography for the subject in its entirety. It will be updated as new collection material is acquired.
Other notable archives at the Research Institute document New York's legendary performance space The Kitchen, in which several of the abovementioned artists were active, and Miranda July's feminist film chain letter Joanie 4 Jackie. The library's holdings of key literature—such as High Performance magazine and The Feminist Art Journal—and exhibition catalogs complement and contextualize the narratives of individual archives.
In addition, the highly active feminist art scene in Southern California is represented in the Long Beach Museum of Art Video Archive and in collections related to the Woman's Building in downtown Los Angeles. Processing and preservation of the latter received support from a grant by the Save America's Treasures program, an interagency federal initiative led by the National Park Service and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
This research guide is intended to serve as an introduction to research on archives and collections related to feminist art at the Getty Research Institute, and is not a comprehensive bibliography for the subject in its entirety. It will be updated as new collection material is acquired.
Special Collections Resources
Archives
Nancy Buchanan
Feminist Art Workers
Guerrilla Girls
Harmony Hammond
Joanie 4 Jackie
L.A. Artists for Survival Recordings Related to Target L.A
Cindy Nemser
Yvonne Rainer
Carolee Schneemann
Sylvia Sleigh
Barbara T. Smith
Marcia Tucker
The Waitresses
Faith Wilding
Related Archives
The Feminist Art Journal
The Kitchen
Long Beach Museum of Art Video Archive
Mother Art
Sisters of Survival
Introductory Reading
After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art Edited by Eleanor Heartney, Helaine Posner, Nancy Princethal, Sue Scott, 2013 Angry Women Andrea Juro & V. Vale, 1991 Art, Women, California 1950-2000: Parallels and Intersections Edited by Diana Burgess Fuller and Daniela Salvioni, 2002 Black Feminist Cultural Criticism Edited by Jacqueline Bobo, 2001 By Our Own Hands: The Woman Artist's Movement, Southern California, 1970–1976 Faith Wilding, 1977 Crossing Over: Feminism and Art of Social Concern Arlene Raven, 1987 Feminist Art Criticism: An Anthology Edited by Arlene Raven, Cassandra Langer, and Joanna Ellen Frueh, 1988 Modern Women: Women Artists at the Museum of Modern Art Edited by Cornelia H. Butler and Alexandra Schwartz, 2010 The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970s, History and Impact Edited by Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard, 1994 The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Selma James, 1975 Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago's Dinner Party in Feminist Art History Edited by Amelia Jones, 1996 Visual and Other Pleasures Laura Mulvey, 1989 Women, Art, and Power and Other Essays
Linda Nochlin, 1988 Women, Art, and Society Whitney Chadwick, 1990
Books Related to Archival Holdings
The 21st Century Odyssey Part II: The Performances of Barbara T. Smith Edited by Rebecca McGrew-Yule, Jennie Klein et. al, exhibition catalog, Pomona College, 2005 An Artist's Life by Eleanora Antinova / Eleanor Antin Eleanor Antin, 2016 Bad Girls Edited by Marcia Tucker. Exhibition catalog, New Museum, 1994 Carolee Schneemann: Kinetic Painting Edited by Sabine Breitwieser. Exhibition catalog Museum der Moderne Salzburg, 2015 Carolee Schneemann: Unforgivable Edited by Kenneth White, Carolee Schneemann, and Duncan McCorquodale, 2015 Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement B. Ruby Rich, 1998 Correspondence Course: An Epistolary History of Carolee Schneemann and Her Circle Edited by Kristine Stiles, 2010 Dialogues and Meditations: Harmony Hammond Edited by Paul Eli Ivey. Exhibition catalog, Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art, 2002 Eleanor Antin Howard N. Fox, 1999 Enacting Others: Politics of Identity in Eleanor Antin, Nikki S. Lee, Adrian Piper, and Anna Deavere Smith / Cherise Smith Cherise Smith, 2011 The Guerrilla Girls' Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art The Guerrilla Girls, 1998 Guerrilla Girls: Disturbing the Peace Edited by Mélanie Boucher. Exhibition catalog, Galerie de l'UQAM, Montreal, 2010 Harmony Hammond: Against Seamlessness Exhibition catalog, Dwight Hackett projects, 2011 Harmony Hammond: Big Paintings, 2002–2005 Exhibition catalog, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, 2002 Imaging Her Erotics: Essays, Interviews, Projects Edited by Carolee Schneemann, 2002 Lesbian Art in America: A Contemporary History Harmony Hammond, 2000 More than Meat Joy: Complete Performance Works & Selected Writings Edited by Carolee Schneemann and Bruce McPherson, 1979 Multiple Occupancy: Eleanor Antin's "Selves" Edited by Emily Liebert. Exhibition catalog, Wallach Art Gallery, New York, 2013 Remnants: Artworks from 1965–1972 / Barbara T. Smith Edited by Mara McCarthy and Barbara T. Smith, 2007 A Short Life of Trouble: Forty Years in the New York Art World Edited by Marcia Tucker, 2008 Sylvia Sleigh: Invitation to a Voyage and Other Works Exhibition catalog, Milwaukee Art Museum, 1990 "An Unnerving Romanticism": The Art of Sylvia Sleigh and Lawrence Alloway Exhibition catalog, Philadelphia Art Alliance, 2001 Yvonne Rainer B. Ruby Rich, 1981 Yvonne Rainer, Radical Juxtapositions 1961–2002 Edited by Sid Sachs. Exhibition catalog, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, 2003 Yvonne Rainer: Space, Body, Language Edited by Yilmaz Dziewior et al. Exhibition catalog, Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2012
Multimedia and Other Online Resources
"A Woman Who...: Selected Works of Yvonne Rainer," DVD video collection, Video Data Bank
Interview with Barbara T. Smith on The Iris
High Performance magazine audio recordings, ca. 1980–1986
Woman's Building "Eyes on Art" video
Woman's Building "Feminist Studio Workshop" video
Miranda July's Joanie 4 Jackie documentation website
Chrysalis magazine
Download Chrysalis for free
Oral Histories at the Getty Research Institute featuring interviews with Betye Saar and Judy Chicago
Woman's Building: Doing It in Public
A 67-video playlist recorded in 2011 as part of Pacific Standard Time: Art in LA 1945–1980, Otis College of Art and Design Recording Artists podcast, Season 1 Radical Women
Helen Molesworth in conversation with contemporary artists and art historians about interviews from the 1960s and '70s with artists Helen Frankenthaler, Eva Hesse, Lee Krasner, Alice Neel, Yoko Ono, and Betye Saar
A 67-video playlist recorded in 2011 as part of Pacific Standard Time: Art in LA 1945–1980, Otis College of Art and Design Recording Artists podcast, Season 1 Radical Women
Helen Molesworth in conversation with contemporary artists and art historians about interviews from the 1960s and '70s with artists Helen Frankenthaler, Eva Hesse, Lee Krasner, Alice Neel, Yoko Ono, and Betye Saar
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