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p. 1-2
Parallel Perspectives
By Joan Marter and Margaret Barlow

p. 3-38
Portraits, Issues and Insights

3 Yvonne Thomas: The “Singleness of the Poetry”
By Vittorio Colaizzi

11 Eva Hesse’s Laocoon: Mitigated Antiquity and Specters in Space
By Alison C. Poe and Aliza Edelman

20 Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party: The Curatorial Context
By Sally Brown Deskins

30 Painting the Margins: Tina Blau and the Spaces of Modernity
By Julie M. Johnson

p. 39-64
Reviews

39 Martha Rosler: Irrespective By Martha Rosler, Introduction by Darsie Alexander, essays by Rosalyn Deutsche and Elena Volpato, conversation between Molly Nesbit and Martha Rosler
Reviewed by Basia Sliwinska

40 Ruth Asawa: Life’s Work Edited by Tamara H. Schenkenberg
Reviewed by Gabrielle Rose-Curti

42 Lee Krasner: Living Colour Edited by Eleanor Nairne, essays by Katy Siegel, John Yau, and Suzanne Hudson
Reviewed by Ellen G. Landau

45 Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist Edited by Gilbert Vicario
Reviewed by Rachel Middleman

48 Augusta Savage: Renaissance Woman By Jeffreen M. Hayes, contributions by Kirsten Pai Buick, Bridget R. Cooks, and Howard Dodson
Reviewed by William L. Coleman

50 Sara Tyson Hallowell: Pioneer Curator and Art Advisor in the Gilded Age By Carolyn Kinder Carr
Reviewed by Taylor L. Poulin

52 Against Our Will: Sexual Trauma in American Art Since 1970 By Vivien Green Fryd
Reviewed by Monika Fabijanska

54 Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s By Nancy Princenthal
Reviewed by Carmen Hermo

56 Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective By Elizabeth Otto and Patrick Rössler
Bauhaus Bodies: Gender, Sexuality, and Body Culture in Modernism’s Legendary Art School Edited by Elizabeth Otto and Patrick Rössler
Reviewed by Julie M. Johnson

59 In a Cloud, in a Wall, in a Chair: Six Modernists in Mexico at Midcentury Edited by Zoë Ryan
Reviewed by K.L.H. Wells

61 Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists Edited by Jill Ahlberg Yohe and Teri Greeves
Reviewed by Karen Kramer

63 What if Not Exotic? Critical Perspectives in Contemporary Iranian Art Edited by Mahsa Farhadikia
Reviewed by Donna Stein

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