Lesbians and the Arts: A Bibliography and Research Guide

Ashburn, Elizabeth. Lesbian Art: An Encounter with Power. Roseville, Australia, 1996.

Barnes, Djuna. Ladies' Almanack. 1928. Reprint. New York: Harper and Row, 1972.

Blake, Nayland, Lawrence Rinder, and Amy Scholder, eds. In A Differnt Light: Visual

Culture, Sexual Identity, Queer Practice. San Fancisco, CA: City Light Books, 1995.

Brink, Jean R., Mortanne C. Horowitz, and Alison P. Condert. Playing with Gender: A Renaissance Pursuit. Chicago, IL: The University of Illinois Press, 1991.

Burana, Lily et al. Dagger: On Butch Women. Pittsburgh, PA: Cleis Press, 1994.

Bush, Kate et al., eds. Bad Girls. London, England: ICA, 1993.

Chadwick, Whitney. Women, Art and Society. London, England: Thames and Hudson, 1990.

Cook, Jim. Common Voices, Other Lives. Santa Barbara, CA: Fithian Press, 1994.

Davis, Whitney. Gay and Lesbian Studies in Art History. Bringhampton, NY: Harrington Park Press, 1994. A collection of essays that examine different pathways of gay/lesbian issues in art history, including painting sculpture and graphic arts, some photography and film. It covers mostly western art from Greco-Roman to modern periods.

De Laurentis, Teresa. Die andere Szene. Psychoanalyse und lesbische Sexualität. Translated by Wördemann, Karin. Berlin, Germany: Berlin Verlag, 1996

DeJean, Joan. Fictions of Sappho, 1546-1937: Women in Culture and Society. Chicago, IL and London, England: University of Chicago Press, 1989.

Dijkstra, Bram. Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in the Fin-de-Siecle Culture. New York and Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Dover, Kenneth J. Greek Homosexuality. New York: Random House, 1978. Reprint. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989.

Du Bois, Page. Sowing the Body: Psychoanalysis and Ancient Representations of Women. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1988.

Fister, Patricia. Japanese Women Artists 1600-1900. New York: Harper and Row, 1988. [look for the artist Seico].

Gal, Iris. Lesbisches Leben in der Zeit von AIDS. Zürich, Switzerland: Kohler, B. Verlag, 1995.

Gupta, Sunil and Tessa Boffin. Ecstatic Antibodies: Resisting the AIDS Mythology. London: River Oram Press; Winchester, MA: Unwin Hyman, 1990.

Hammond, Harmony. Wrappings: Essays on Feminism, Art and the Martial Arts. New York : Mussman/Time and Space Ltd., 1994.

Hill, Charlotte and William Wallace. Erotica II: An Illustrated Anthology of Sexual Art and Literature. New York: Carroll and Graf, 1993.

Horne, Peter and Reina Lewis (eds.) Outlooks Lesbian and Gay Sexualities and Visual Cultures. London: Routledge, 1996. The book includes critical essays by gay and lesbian art historians, cultural theorists and activists as well as statements by contemporary artists, photographers and performers. It is illustrated with works by Tessa Boffin, Sadie Lee, Veronica Slater, Gran Fury, Ingrid Pollard et al. The essays explore a wide range of lesbian and gay perspectives in visual culture each with valuabe further references and an alphabetical Index at the end of the Book.

Juno, Andrea and V. Vale, eds. Angry Women. San Francisco, CA: RE/SEARCH Publications, 1991.

Kahn, Douglas and Diane Neumaier, eds. Cultures in Contention. Seattle, WA: Real Comet Press, 1985.

Kelley, Caffyn, ed. Forbidden Subjects: Self Portraits by Lesbian Artists. Vancouver, Canada: Galerie Women Artists' Monographs, 1992.

Kronhausen, Phyllis and Eberhard Kronhausen. Erotic Art. New York: Grove Press, 1968.

Larson, Jacqueline, Monika Gagnon and Sandra Edmunds. Out of Place. Vancouver, Canada: Vancouver Association for Noncommercial Culture, 1993.

Leach, Joseph. Bright Particular Star: The Life and Times of Charlotte Cushman. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1970. [Lover of sculptor Emma Stebbins].

Lord, Catherine, ed. All but the Obvious: Writing, Visual Art, Performance, Video by Lesbians. Curated by Pam Gregg, Los Angeles, CA: LAACE, 1990.

March, David. D'Albert s'expose: Aubrey Beardsley's Drawings for Mademoiselle de Maupin. New York: David March, 1985.

McDaniel, Judith. Sanctuary: A Journey. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand, 1987.

McPherson, Heather et al., eds. Spiral 7: A Collection of Lesbian Art and Writing from Aotearoa/New Zealand. Wellington, New Zealand: Spiral, 1992.

Melville, Robert. Erotic Art of the West. New York, 1973.

Nead, Lynda. The Female Nude: Art Obscenity, and Sexuality. New York: Routledge, 1992.

Penelope, Julia and Susan J. Wolfe, eds. Lesbian Culture: An Anthology: The Lives, Work, Ideas, Art and Visions of Lesbians Past and Present. Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1993.

Raven, Arlene. Crossing Over: Feminism and Art of Social Concern. Ann Arbor, MI and London, England: UMI Research Press, 1988.

Richardson, Brenda. Dr. Claribel and Miss Etta: The Cone Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore, MD: The Museum, 1985.

Rosenwasser, Rena. Simulacra. Berkeley, CA: Kelsey Street Press, 1986.

Schulman, Sarah. Love Bites. London: Aubrey Walter, GMP, 1991.

Segal, Lynne and Mary McIntosh, eds. Sex Exposed: Sexuality and the Pornography Debate. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1993.

Smyth, Cherry. Damn Fine Art by New Lesbian Artists. London and New York, Cassell, 1996.

Sisler, Rebecca. The Girls: A Biography of Frances Loring and Florence Wyle. Toronto and Vancouver, Canada: Clarke Irwin, 1972.

Stokes, Ann. A Studio for One's Own. Tallahassee, FL: Naiad Press, 1985.

Turoff, Randy, ed. Lesbian Words: State of the Art. New York: Masquerade Books/Richard Kasak, 1995.

Webb, Peter et al. The Erotic Arts. Boston, MA: New York Graphic Society, 1975.

Wheelwright, Julie. Amazons and Military Maids: Women Who Cross Dressed in the Pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness. London, England: Pandora Press, 1989.

Wilton, Tamsin. Lesbian Studies: Setting an Agenda. London,

England and New York: Routledge, 1995. [see especially chapter 7, Lesbians Studying Culture: Studying Lesbian Culture, 138-162]. It offers a theoretical framework for lesbians and lesbianism in different fields. Especially chapter 7 opens pathways for methodological/theoretical possibilities of lesbian art. It surveys painting, photography, drawing, film and performance art. It also raises questions about authorship, medium and representation, which leads to further indepthstudies in art theory.

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