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A mental masquerade : when Brian O'Doherty was a female art critic : Mary Josephson's collected writings

Title
A mental masquerade : when Brian O'Doherty was a female art critic : Mary Josephson's collected writings / Thomas Fischer & Astrid Mania (eds.).
Author
Josephson, Mary (Art critic)
Publication
Leipzig : Spector Books, 2019.

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Additional Authors
  • Fischer, Thomas
  • Mania, Astrid, 1965-
  • O'Doherty, Brian
Description
83 pages; 21 cm
Summary
"'A Mental Masquerade' gathers work by art critic Mary Josephson, most of it written between 1971 and 1973. Mary Josephson does not exist. She is one of the many alter egos of notorious artist and theorist Brian O'Doherty, looking to liberate himself from the constraints of malehood and the social constraints of the art world. Josephson was a brilliant observer, a witty and fearless writer. Her reviews shed a light on New York's art scene in the 1970s. This publication hopes to stimulate further research that might want to contextualize Mary Josephson within debates around notions such as gender, and authorship"--Page 2 of cover.
Subjects
Note
  • Includes "A mental masquerade" by Astrid Mania and "Divesting the self: a striptease" by Brian O'Doherty.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Lapidus' pornography of comfort -- Warhol: the medium as cultural artifact -- Joplin and Hendrix: a note on the rhetoric of death -- Richard Tuttle at Betty Parsons -- Richard Artschwager at Castelli -- de Kooning at Janis, Raphael Soyer at Forum -- Ray Johnson at Betty Parsons -- Paul Waldman at Castelli -- John Marin at Alpha Gallery -- The history of X.
Call Number
N7475
ISBN
  • 9783959052276
  • 3959052278
OCLC
  • on1123217220
  • 1123217220
  • SCSB-9810201
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries