Critical Writing Index

received and noted

by Karen vanMeenen and Judith Nicholson

Afterimage, June 1995, v. 23, no. 1, pp. 26-27

Afterimage's June 1995 received and noted section includes reviews of the artist book Grapevine: Photographs by Susan Lipper, the magazine Border/Lines, and the journals At the Crossroads: A Journal for Women Artists of African Descent and Matriart: A Canadian Feminist Art Journal. Grapevine documents photographer Susan Lipper's five-year stay in a tiny West Virginia hamlet. Her black-and-white, medium format portraits of Grapevine Hollow's residents draw from the language of Walker Evan's documentary photographs while allowing for unusual, unexpected moments which reveal the humanity and complexity of its subjects. The tenth anniversary edition of Border/Lines offers a retrospective of the progressive media arts magazine. What emerges from this assessment of the magazine's decade-long history is a commitment to making visible marginalized (feminist, queer, First Nations, etc) voices and their relationship to different art forms and popular culture. The journal At the Crossroads approaches arts and culture from the unique point of view of Africanadian, African Carribean and African American women. Matriart sets out in its mandate to promote and document Canadian women's cultural production from a feminist standpoint. The issue covered in this review focuses on the continual under-representation of women artists in Canadian cultural institutions.

ITEM 1995.141 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Susan Lipper

Adrian Piper