Lesbian Art in America: A Contemporary History

Harmony Hammond

Random House Incorporated, 2000 - Art - 208 pages

"-- The first history of lesbian art in the United States. Including profiles of eighteen prominent lesbian artists, Lesbian Art in America was the recipient of a Lambda Literary Award in the category of Lesbian Studies. In the early 1990s she described herself in New Feminist Criticism as "an artist, a feminist, a lesbian, middle-class, white. When I'm good, I'm an artist. When I'm bad I'm a feminist. And when I'm horrid, I'm a goddam dyke. I feel like being horrid these days. Given the current political climate around art and the threat of being artistically silenced for being queer and female, I can't afford to be quiet or to let others define who I am and what kind of art I may or may not make." Throughout her career Hammond has expressed her artistic and political sensibility within the boundaries of modernist and abstract forms. Her works tend to be substantial, intensely colored, and ambiguous.

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Art is Love. and Love Is Life. I believe that lesbian and gay artists should be more noticed by people. They are just like us, give or take a couple of things lol

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Lesbians have an uneasy relationship with the art world establishment. When painter Jody Pinto wanted her work to appear in the 1978 "Lesbian Show," her art dealer informed her that "if she exhibited ...

Contents

• Introduction: 7
• Artist Profiles LouiseFishman: 34
• Artist ProfiIes Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie: 64

About the author

A member of the first generation of post-Stonewall, gay and lesbian artists, Harmony Hammond was a founder of the pioneering feminist gallery A.I.R. in 1972 and a cofounder of Heresies magazine in 1976. She is now on the faculty of the art department of the University of Arizona, Tucson.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Lesbian Art in America: A Contemporary History
• Author: Harmony Hammond
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Random House Incorporated, 2000
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Nov 13, 2007
• ISBN: 0847822486, 9780847822485
• Length: 208 pages
• Subjects: Art / History / General; Art / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945); Art / Subjects & Themes / General; Social Science / Lesbian Studies