Mothers of Invention

Eleanor Heartney is Contributing Editor to Art in America and Artpress. Recent publications include: Doomsday Dreams: the Apocalyptic Imagination in Contemporary Art (2019). Helaine Posner is Chief Curator Emerita at the Neuberger Museum of Art, SUNY, Purchase College, New York. She is the author of monographs on the artists Kiki Smith, Louise Fishman, and, most recently, Donna Dennis: A Poet in Three Dimensions (2023). Nancy Princenthal is a writer whose most recent book Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s (2019) was named one of the best art books of the year by the New York Times. She is also the author of Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art (2015), which won a PEN America award for biography. Sue Scott is an independent curator and writer. She was Adjunct Curator of Contemporary Art at the Orlando Museum of Art from 1989 to 2008 and founder and director of Sue Scott Gallery in New York City. All four writers are co-authors of the award-winning book After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art (2007) and of The Reckoning: Women Artists of the New Millennium (2013).

'this publication is more than an innovative catalog of artworks. It represents a significant step towards a more inclusive and, therefore, objectively more accurate history of art.' – Kaëna Daeppen, Daily Art Magazine

• 'Breaking the Rules, Rewriting the Script: Feminist Influences on Contemporary Art - A Roundtable Conversation with E. Heartney, H. Posner, N. Princenthal and S. Scott'; 1. 'Performance Art and Action', H. Posner; 2. 'Handmade: Art, Craft and Feminism', N. Princenthal; 3. 'Beyond Tragic and Timeless: Women, Abstraction and Feminism', S. Scott; 4. 'Confronting Dominionism: How Women Rewrote the Role of Humans in Nature', E. Heartney; Epilogue; Further Reading; Acknowledgments and Index