M/E/a/N/I/N/G

Susan Bee is an artist, editor, and designer who founded, coedited, and designed M/E/A/N/I/N/G magazine. She shows her paintings at A.I.R. Gallery in New York City and her artist’s books include Little Orphan Anagram and Log Rhythms.Mira Schor is on the faculty of the Fine Arts Department at Parsons School of Design. An award-winning painter and former coeditor and founder of M/E/A/N/I/N/G magazine, she is the author of Wet: On Painting, Feminism, and Art Culture, also published by Duke University Press.

• M/E/A/N/I/N/G: Feminism, Theory, and Art Practice / Johanna Drucker Introduction / Susan Bee and Mira Schor I. Feminism and Art “Post-Feminism”-A Remasculinization of Culture? / Amelia Jones Appropriated Sexuality / Mira Schor Why We Need “Bad Girls” Rather Than “Good” Ones! / Corinne Robins Barbara Pollack / Letter on Bad Girls / Barbara Pollack A Conversation on Censorship with Carolee Schneemann / Aviva Rahmani Aesthetic and Postmenopausal Pleasures / Joanna Frueh just a sketch . . . / Laura Cottingham A Conversation on Lesbian Subjectivity and Painting with Deborah Kass / Patricia Cronin Monstrous Domesticity / Faith Wilding II. The Politics of Meaning and Representation For M/E/A/N/I/N/G / Charles Bernstein Figure/Ground / Mira Schor The Critic Is (?) Artist / Marcia Hafif 12 Questions of Art / Lucio Pozzi Some Remarks on Racism in the American Arts / Daryl Chin The Success of Failure / Joel Fisher Visual Pleasure: A Feminist Perspective / Johanna Drucker “I Don’t Take Voice Mail” / Charles Bernstein III. Selections from the Forums On Authenticity and Meaning / Arakawa & Madeline Gins, Susan Bee, Robert Berlind, Jake Berthot, Collins & Milazzo, Maureen Connor, Rackstraw Downes, David Humphrey, Komar & Melamid, Medrie MacPhee, Elizabeth Murray, Yvonne Rainer, Miriam Schapiro, Ann Schoenfeld, Pat Steir, Robert Storr, Lawrence Weiner Contemporary Views on Racism in the Arts / Emma Amos, Josely Carvalho, Daryl Chin, Tom Finkelpearl, Madeline Gins, RenÉe Green, Hung Liu, Fern Logan, Juan Sanchez, Robert Storr Over Time: A Forum on Art Making / Rudolf Baranik, Arthur Cohen, Hermine Ford, Nancy Fried, Leon Golub, John Goodyear, Nancy Grossman, Yvonne Jacquette, Ellen Lanyon, Ann McCoy, Melissa Meyer, Howardena Pindell, Lucio Pozzi, Jacques Roch, Miriam Schapiro, Carolee Schneemann, Richard Tuttle, David von Schlegell, Lawrence Weiner, Faith Wilding On Motherhood, Art, and Apple Pie / Emma Amos, Suzanne Anker, Susan Bee, Emily Cheng, Stephanie DeManuelle, Jane Dickson, Bailey Doogan, Hermine Ford, Mimi Gross, Freya Hansell, Yvonne Jacquette, Joyce Kozloff, Ellen Lanyon, Betty Lee, Lenore Malen, Ann Messner, Diane Neumaier, Nancy Pierson, Barbara Pollack, Erika Rothenberg, Miriam Schapiro, Arlene Shechet, Dena Shottenkirk, Joan Snyder, Elke Solomon, Nancy Spero, May Stevens, Martha Wilson, Barbara Zucker On Creativity and Community / Jackie Brookner, David Humphrey, William Pope, Robert C. Morgan, Barbara Pollack, Jerry Saltz, Mira Schor IV. Artists’ Musings Mother Baseball / Vanalyne Green Bats / Tom Knechtel The Discovered Uncovered / Nancy Spero Running on Empty: An Artist’s Life in New York / Susan Bee Reorganized Meditations on Mnemonic Threshold / Joseph Nechvatal The Critic and the Hare: Meditations on the Death of My Rabbit / Ann McCoy September 21, 1989 / Richard Tuttle Alison Knowles: An Interview / Aviva Rahmani Media Baptisms / David Reed V. Artists in Perspective Florine Stettheimer: Eccentric Power, Invisible Tradition / Pamela Wye Cartoons of the Self: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Murderer-Art Spiegelman’s Maus / Nancy K. Miller Nancy Spero: Speaking in Tongues / Pamela Wye Muse Begets Crone: On Leonora Carrington / Whitney Chadwick Painting After Painting: The Paintings of Susan Bee / Misko Suvakovic When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears: An Interview with Thomas McEvilley / Dominique Nahas Appendix: Contents of M/E/A/N/I/N/G

“M/E/A/N/I/N/G reflects a time when artists were, in a sense, the critical theorists of the moment. Mira Schor and Susan Bee inspired many of them to write about the subjects that were closest to their hearts, minds, and art.”-Elizabeth Hess, art critic “The beauty of this book is the brilliant amassing by Susan Bee and Mira Schor of so many voices, ideas, and approaches. This anthology is full of gems, separately and in their juxtapositions. Fascinating, rich fare.”-Moira Roth, coauthor of Difference/Indifference: Musings on Postmodernism, Marcel Duchamp, and John Cage