Scope and Contents

This exhibition on art by women was curated and the catalogue edited by M. Catherine de Zegher. The contributing artists and critical texts are international in scope. The book was highly documented as evidenced by 56 essays. An essay by Laura Monahan on Claude Cahun depicts a photograph lent to the exhibition by the Sackner Archive. The art works are varied with only a small fraction being feminist art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents In the preface, Nicholas Serota and Lewis Biggs write that Susan Hiller "uses ephemeral, everyday objects, telling their stories and extracting new meanings from them, producing art which is both visually stimulating and emotionally compelling." This major exhibition of Hiller's works brings together several of her major works that require viewer participation, shifting from the whole of the art piece to its particular elements and back again to the whole. One of Hiller's major works was installed in MOMA in the exhibition, "The Museum as Muse," which the Sackners viewed in New York. In it, the artist used ordinary materials to evoke moments of cultural, historical and personal disturbance inspired by Sigmund Freud's last home. Her found elements were boxed, labelled and categorized and placed in a large vitrine. Hiller indicated that the boxes "present the viewer with a word (each is titled), a thing of object, and an image or text of chart, a representation. And the three aspects...