Helaine posner biography of william

In the 1992 postscript to her essay “Patrilineage,” published in Art Journal the year prior, Mira Schor argued for the necessary interruption of male-dominated art history through the production of histories of and by women.

Helaine posner biography of william

“The method is really very simple,” she explained. “It will always be a man’s world unless one seeks out and values the women in it” (Mira Schor, “Patrilineage,” in Wet: On Painting, Feminism, and Art Culture, Durham: Duke University Press, 1996, 117).

Despite the changes of nearly two and a half decades, this lesson remains relevant (sadly, so do many in Schor’s essay): unless new narratives are explicitly created to kick against its mold, history is bound to take the shape of the patriarchal society into which it is written.

With The Reckoning: Women Artists of the New Millennium, authors Eleanor Heartney, Helaine Posner, Nancy Princenthal, and Sue Scott build upon the work of their earlier volume, After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contempora