Jacqueline Millner is Associate Professor of Visual Arts at La Trobe University, Australia. She has published extensively on contemporary art, with a focus on Australian and feminist practices. Her books include Conceptual Beauty (2010), the co-authored Australian Artists in the Contemporary Museum (2014), and Fashionable Art (2015). Catriona Moore lectures in art history at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her ongoing engagement with modern and contemporary art and feminism dates from her pioneering books Indecent Exposures: Australian Feminist Photography 1970–1990 (1994) and Dissonance: Twenty Years of Australian Feminist Art Writing (1994).
A rousing riposte to anyone who thinks that feminism is now 'post', this book full of fascinating accounts of a disparate range of practises provides a challenge to patriarchal attitudes in the artworld in engaging, enlightening and at times humorous ways - a veritable celebration of female creativity and thought. - Elizabeth Ann Macgregor OBE, Director, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia A rousing riposte to anyone who thinks that feminism is now 'post', this book is full of fascinating accounts of a disparate range of practises and provides a challenge to patriarchal attitudes in the artworld in engaging, enlightening and, at times, humorous ways - a veritable celebration of female creativity and thought. -- Elizabeth Ann Macgregor OBE, Director, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia The volume edited by Jacqueline Millner and Catriona Moore shows the difficulty and weariness caused by the writing of a history that is never dealt with and carried out once and for all. -- Laura Lamurri, Critique d'art