Why Amelia Jones Is Wrong About Liz Cohen

[Natasha]

Why Amelia Jones Is Wrong About Liz Cohen

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=667979&hp
Jen Graves
9/10/2008

Amelia Jones, a prominent feminist art historian and author, attacked little-known artist Liz Cohen in this summer's edition of X-TRA magazine. In an essay reviewing the history of feminist art, Jones described Cohen's work—which includes large color photographs of Cohen wearing a bikini on top of a car—as "simplistic repetitions of bad advertisements for cars." Cohen's depictions of her own "young, white, thin body" are "resolutely normative" (status-quo enforcing) and "binary" (based on simplistic, oppositional equations about men and women), Jones wrote. If Jones had written the essay in the last two weeks, she might have called Cohen the Sarah Palin of the art world.

[NicholeW.]

Wow, the reviewer taking apart the artist becomes the reviewer being taken apart by a reviewer!! I love it, wheels within wheels which seems to major point of Liz Cohen's work.

Thanks Tasha, nice work in making this available!!

Nichole