Gill Perry is Senior Lecturer in Art History at the Open University. She has published books and articles on eighteenth-century British art and twentieth-century European art, including Women Artists and the Parisian Avant-Garde (1995) and Gender and Art (1999).

"This is a prepossessing volume... all contributions raise questions that are indeed pressing, and address them in thought-provoking and, on the whole, insightful ways." The Art Book

• Notes on Contributors. 1. Introduction: Visibility, Difference and Excess: Gill Perry.2. 'Out of it': Drunkenness and Ethics in Martha Rosler and Gillian Wearing: David Hopkins.3. A Strange Alchemy: Cornelia Parker: Interviewed by Lisa Tickner.4. Antibodies: Rachel Whiteread's Water Tower: Sue Malvern.5. Hybrid Histories: Alice Maher: Fionna Barber.6. Reading Black Through White in the Work of Kara Walker: A Discussion Between Michael Corris and Robert Hobbs.7. Corporeal Theory with in Practice: Christine Borland's Winter Garden: Marsha Meskimmon.8. Cultural Crossings: Performing Race and Trans-gender in the Work of moti roti: Dorothy Rowe.9. Lubaina Himid's Plan B: Close-up Magic and Tricky Allusions: Jane Beckett.Index.