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ELAINE HEDGES AND INCRID WENDT Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 http://www.archive.org/details/inherownimagewomOOhedg Her in Own image women working in the Arts 1 1 i- j- * 1 In mm 1 Her in Own Image women working in the Arts Elaine Hedges Wendt Ingrid The Feminist Press NEW YORK — Copyright © 1980byTheFeministPress.AllrightsreservedunderInterna- tional and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States byThe FeministPressatTheCityUniversityofNewYork, 311 East 94 Street, New York, NY 10128. DistributedbyTheTalmanCompany,Inc., 150FifthAvenue,NewYork,NY 10011. First edition, second printing Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Main entry under title: In her own image, women working in the arts. Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary:Ananthologyofvisualandliteraryworksbyandaboutwomen artists and authors. — Add1.resFseemsi,neisssmaysa,nldecttuhrees.ar3.tsWoAmdedrnesasrteiss,ts—esAsdadyrs,essleesc,tuersessa.ys,2.leAcrtturses. [1.Women artists. 2. Women authors. 3. Feminism and the arts.]I. Hedges, Elaine. II. Wendt, Ingrid, 1944- NX180.F415 700 79-17024 ISBN 0-912670-62-2 (pbk.) Cover: Portrait of the Artist with Two Pupils, Mile. Gabrielle Capet (1761-1818), and Mile. Carreaux de Rosemond(d. 1788), byAdelaide Labille- Guiard. Reproduced with permission of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (Gift of Julia A. Berwind, 1953.) Frontispiece:Log Cabin Quilt:Barn Raising, by Mary Fish, 1879; from the Shelburne Museum, Inc., Shelburne, Vermont. Foreground: Ghost Dance Woman, by Wendy Rose, 1976; from a private collection, courtesy of the Table of Contents x List of Plates xv Publisher's Acknowledgments xix Authors' Acknowledgments xx Introduction ONE: Everyday Use i Household Work and Women's Art 10 A PUEBLO WOMAN'S HERITAGE: COMMENT AND — pottery Margaret Tafoya — 13 quilts and women's culture Elaine Hedges — 20 STAR OF BETHLEHEM QUILT AnonymOUS — 21 rose of sharon quilt Sarah Barker — 22 bible quilt Harriet Powers — 23 mariner's compass quilt Anonymous — 24 log cabin quilt: barn raising Mary Fish — 25 everyday use Alice Walker — 35 looking at quilts Marge Piercy — 37 medieval tapestry and questions Diane Wakoski — 39 weaving Lucy Larcom — 42 VIRGINIA HOWARD, APPALACHIAN WEAVER Doris Ulmann — 44 three weavings Glen Corbett Povey — 48 four string compositions Sue Fuller 52 PLUCKING THE FRUITS OF KNOWLEDGE AND — science Mary Cassatt — 54 basket of peaches Fede Galizia 56 EXHIBITION OF WOMEN ARTISTS — (1790-1900) Joan Aleshire 58 THE SEARCH FOR THE PERFECT RYE — bread Bethami Auerbach — 61 the vase Jessamyn West — 71 two collages Miriam Schapiro 75 TWO: Becoming an Artist Obstacles and Challenges — 86 Shakespeare's sister Virginia Woolf — 93 prologue Anne Bradstreet — 95 jane eyre Charlotte Bronte 1 98 MY BUSINESS IS TO SING! LETTERS — and poems Emily Dickinson — 103 the centaur May Swenson — 106 the sketch Gertrude Kasebier — 108 female students drawing Frances Benjamin Johnston — 110 at sixteen Michele Murray getting a start: interview with carmen 11 — lomas garza Olivia Evey Chapa — 115 THE ARTIST AS HOUSEWIFE Erica Jong — 121 journal of a solitude May Sarton 127 THIS IS THE STORY OF THE DAY IN THE LIFE — of a woman trying Susan Griffin — 130 dust Ingrid Wendt — 134 the rabbi's daughter Hortense Calisher — 148 you captured my heart Patti Warashina — 151 the divided heart Ruth Whitman — 156 maternity Dorothea Tanning — 159 prospective immigrants please note Adrienne Rich — 161 you do not know the breaking through Ellen Bass — 163 through the flower Judy Chicago 167 THREE: Their Own images Definitions and Discoveries — 174 turning Lucille Clifton — 175 a nude by edward hopper Lisel Mueller — 177 poem in which my legs are accepted Kathleen Fraser — 180 self-portrait Paula Modersohn-Becker — 182 SELF-PORTRAIT WITH CROPPED HAIR Frida Kahlo — 185 two sculptures Marisol — 189 self-portrait as athena Marcia Marcus — 191 black venus Niki de Saint-Phalle 194 NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES! PAINTING — and poem Wendy Rose 198 knowing who you are: interview and — etching Carmen Lomas Garza 203 FIFTH CHINESE DAUGHTER! AUTOBIOGRAPHY and pottery—Jade Snow Wong — 216 rolinda sharples and her mother Rolinda Sharpies 218 PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST WITH TWO — pupils Adelaide Labille-Guiard 221 THE ARTIST IN THE CHARACTER — of design Angelica Kauffmann — 224 to george sand Elizabeth Barrett Browning — 227 two poems Emily Dickinson 230 MARTHA GRAHAM; LETTER TO THE WORLD, 1940 — (kick Barbara Morgan | — 234 emily Dickinson Linda Pastan 237 FOUR: Lend Your Hands Women's Art and Social Change 246 THE ARTIST AND THE PEOPLE! AUTOBIOGRAPHY — and graphics Kaethe Kollwitz — 262 kathe kollwitz Muriel Rukeyser 269 SINGING FOR A NEW DAY: INTERVIEW — and song Holly Near 280 BLACK MUSIC IN OUR HANDS! ESSAY — and song Bernice Reagon — 288 the liberation of aunt jemima Betye Saar — 290 wall of respect for women Lower East Side Collective — 292 collections for her-story: o Wallflower Order — 295 the dinner party Judy Chicago and The Dinner Party Project — 299 your small hands Adrienne Rich — 301 wherever Muriel Rukeyser 302 About the Authors 302 A Note on Language 303 Index List of Plates 11 PLATE 1 Margaret Tafoya, Black Carved Bowl Polished Inside and Out 11 plate 2 Margaret Tafoya, Black Polished Water far with Bear Impression 20 plate 3 Anonymous, Star of Bethlehem Quilt 21 PLATE 4 Sarah Barker, Rose of Sharon Quilt 22 plate 5 Harriet Powers, Bible Quilt 23 plate 6 Anonymous, Mariner's Compass Quilt 24 plate 7 Mary Fish, Log Cabin Quilt: Barn Raising 43 plate 8 Doris Ulmann, Virginia Howard, Brasstown, North Carolina 46 PLATE 9 Glen Corbett Povey, Weaving: Preliminary Sketch 47 PLATE 10 Glen Corbett Povey, Atabet's Moment 47 PLATE n Glen Corbett Povey, Out of the Blue 47 PLATE 12 Glen Corbett Povey, Columbia 48 PLATE 13 Sue Fuller, String Composition #702, Demi-Structure
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