Moira Roth
Moira Roth | |
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Born | 1933 England |
Education | London School of Economics New York University University of California, Berkeley |
Genre | contemporary art feminist art |
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Moira Roth is a feminist art historian and art critic who is Trefethen Professor of Art History at Mills College in Oakland, California. She has written extensively on contemporary art. Her collection of essays, Difference/Indifference: Musings on Postmodernism, Marcel Duchamp and John Cage, was published, with a commentary by Jonathan D. Katz, by Psychology Press (1998), exploring the construction of masculinity and conflicting identities. She was educated at the London School of Economics in England, and received a B.A. in sociology and an M.A. from New York University and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974.[1] She received the 2006 National Recognition in the Arts Award from the College Arts Association.[2][3] She was interviewed for the film !Women Art Revolution.[4]
Publications
Books
Introduction and texts (together with commentary by Jonathan D. Katz), Difference/Indifference: Musings on Postmodernism, Marcel Duchamp and John Cage, 1998. In Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture Series, Amsterdam, Holland: Gordon and Breach Publishing Group, 1998[5]
Editor, Rachel Rosenthal, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1997[6]
Editor, Abraham's Daughter: The Life and Times of Rose Hacker, London: Deptford Forum Publishing Ltd., 1996
Editor and Introduction, We Flew Over the Bridge; the Memoirs of Faith Ringgold, Little Brown, November 1995 (reprinted in 2005, Duke University Press)[7]
Editor and Contributor, Connecting Conversations: Interviews with 28 Bay Area Women Artists, Eucalyptus Press, Mills College, 1988[8]
Editor and Contributor, The Amazing Decade: Women and Performance Art in America 1970-1980, A Source Book, Los Angeles: Astro Artz, 1983[9]
Selected articles
“Interview with Suzanne Lacy” (abridged by Laura Meyers from the unpublished 1990 interview by Roth with Lacy, Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington DC), Entering the Picture: Judy Chicago, the Fresno Feminist Art Program, and the Collective Visions of Women Artists (ed. Jill Fields), New York: Routledge, 2012
“Villa’s Word in Collision: A Study in Four Part, 1976-2007,” Carlos Villa and the Integrity of Spaces (ed. Theodore S. Gonzalez), San Francisco: Meritage Press, 2011
Introduction, “Martha Wilson: A Woman With a Mind of Her Own,” Martha Wilson Sourcebook: 40 Years of Reconsidering Performance, Feminism, Alternative Spaces (ed. Martha Wilson), New York: Independent Curators International, 2011
“Suzanne Lacy: Three Decades of Performing and Writing/Writing and Performing,” in Leaving Art: Suzanne Lacy's Writings on Performance, Politics and Publics, Durham, North Carolina and London: Duke University Press, 2010, pp.xvii-x1i
“Allan Kaprow’s Tree, a Happening,” Archives of American Art Journal, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC., Spring 2008
“Women’s Rights and History, 1910-2008,” in Ginger Wolfe-Suarez: As Long As I live You Will Live, Mills College Art Museum Catalog, 2008 (5 pages)
“An Interview with John Baldessari (1973),” edited by Naomi Sawelson-Gorse, X-tra, vol. 8, no. 2, 2005, pp. 14–35
“An Interview with John Cage (1971),” edited by Naomi Sawelson-Gorse, in Etant donné, Paris, No. 6, Fall 2005 (bilingual issue on John Cage and Marcel Duchamp), pp. 136–161
"Faith Ringgold: Putting Jones Road on the Map," Nka, Journal of Contemporary African Art, #13/14, Spring/Summer 2001. [Part 7 of Traveling Companions/ Fractured Worlds]
“Suzanne Lacy, Between Aesthetics and Politics” (and an interview), Flintridge Foundation Awards for Visual Artists, 1991-2000, edited by Noriko Gambin and Karen Jacobson, Pasadena: Flintridge Foundation, 2000
"Of Self and History: Exchanges with Linda Nochlin" Art Journal, Fall 2000, reprinted in Aruna d'Souza, ed., Of Self and History, In Honor of Linda Nochlin, Thames and Hudson 2001. [Part 5 of Traveling Companions/Fractured Worlds]
"The Aesthetic of Indifference," Artforum, November, 1977. Reprinted (with postscript) in And (English publication), Fall 1990. Reprinted in Dancing Around the Bride: Cage, Cunningham, Rauschenberg, and Duchamp, edited by Carlos Basualdo and Erica F. Battle, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2012.
References
- ^ "Moira Roth". Mills College. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
- ^ "MILLS COLLEGE PROFESSOR MOIRA ROTH RECEIVES NATIONAL ARTS AWARD". Mills College Newsroom. Mills College. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
- ^ "2006 CWA Annual Recognition Awards". College Arts Association. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
- ^ Anon 2018
- ^ Roth, Moira; Katz, Jonathan D. (2014). Difference / Indifference: Musings on Postmodernism, Marcel Duchamp and John Cage. London: Rutledge. ISBN 9781135221843. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
- ^ Balcalzo, reviews editor, dan (1999). "Book Reviews". Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory. 10 (1–2): 291–313. doi:10.1080/07407709908571307.
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has generic name (help) - ^ "Moira Roth Talks About Faith Ringgold: Friend, Fellow Traveler, and Colleague". Art Museum of Sonoma County. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
- ^ Roth, Moira (1988). "Connecting Conversations: Interviews with 28 Bay Area Women Artists". Google Books. Eucalyptus Press, Mills College. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
- ^ Roth, Moira. The amazing decade: women and performance art in America, 1970-1980 : women and performance art in America 1970-1980. OCLC 709813425.
- Anon (2018). "Artist, Curator & Critic Interviews". !Women Art Revolution - Spotlight at Stanford. Archived from the original on August 23, 2018. Retrieved August 23, 2018.
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