M/E/A/N/I/N/G: An Anthology of Artists' Writings, Theory, and Criticism

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Review: Publisher's Weekly (February 19, 2001) notes: For 10 years, from the mid-'80s to the mid-'90s, artist and designer Susan Bee and Mira Schor, a painter on the faculty of the Parsons School of Deign, edited a magazine they had founded, devoted to "visual pleasure with a culturally activcist edge." Bee andSchor have culled 40 of the most representative essays, reviews, critical forums, interviews and "musings" for M/E/AN/I/N/G: An Anthology of Artists' Writings, Theory and Criticism, which takes its name from their magazine. Book artist Johanna Drucker contributes a foreword. Alison Knowles, Carolee Schneemann, Richard Tuttle, Nanacy K. Miller, Rackstraw Downes, Joanna Frueh, Jerry Saltz and many others weigh in. The book makes for a fascinating snapshot of a tansitional era in American art, one whose terms and preoccupations are still being reworked and worked out.