Lesbians and the Arts: A Bibliography and Research Guide

"Lesbian Art and Artists." Heresis 1, no.3 (Fall 1977): 38-49 [Special Issue].

"The Tapes." Edited by Louise Fishman. Heresis 1, no. 3 (Fall 1977): 15-21.

Bechdel, Alison. "How to Draw Lesbians: A Lecture in Print on Gender, Representation, and Identity in the Comics." Artpapers 10, no.5 (January 1991): 12-13.

Boime, Albert. "The Case of Rosa Bonheur: Why Should a Woman Want to be Like a Man?" Art History 4 (1981).

Breeskin, Adelyn D. "The Rare Subtle Talent of Romaine Brooks." Art News 79, no.8 (October 1980): 156-159.

Bright, Deborah and Erica Rand. "Queer Plymouth." GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 12, no.2 (Spring 2006).

Busch, Alexandra. "Sisters in Crime - Natalie Barney und die women communities im Paris der 20er Jahre" In: Interdisziplinäre Forschungsgruppe Frauenforschung (Hg.): Liebes- und Lebensverhältnisse. Sexualität in der feministischen Diskussion. (1990): 44-60.

Cotter, Holland. "Art After Stonewall: 12 Artists Interviewed." Art in America 82, no.6 (June,1994): 56-65.

Cronin, Patricia. "A conversation on lesbian subjectivity and painting with Deborah Kass." M/E/A/N/I/N/G 14 (Nov. 1993): 7-12.

Damon, Betsy. "The 7,000 Year Old Women." Heresis: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics 2 (Fall 1977).

Evans, Marian. "The spirit of Blueskin Bay: lesbian artists at Okahau." Art New Zealand (New Zealand) 68. (Spring 1993): 62-5.

Ewers, Niko. "Gisela Wölbing und Gertrud van Dyck. Die vielen Gesichter einer 'künstlerischen Produktionsgemeinschaft'".In: StadtBlatt 14 (1996):

Fishman, Louise. "The Tapes." Heresis 1, no.3 (Fall 1977): 15-21.

Foerster, Nancy. "Nancy Foerster." Gallerie: Women's Art (Canada) 1, no. 2 (Fall 1988): 22-3.

Frueh, Joanna. "How Do You Play? The Deviant Narratives of Kaucyila Brooke." Afterimage 17, no. 9 (April 1990): 4-7.

Funk, Julika. "Sappho am Fenster der Guillotine. Zu intermedialen Refelxionen von Visualität und Queerness bei Claude Cahun." FKW Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur Heft 45 (July 2008): 46-59.

Goldin, Nan. "Body is a 4-Letter Word." Art Journal 50, no.4 (Winter 1991): 8.

Hammond, Harmony. "Horsebinders." Heresis 3, no.1 (1980): 45-47.

Hammond, Harmony. "Against Cultural Amnesia." Art Papers 18, no.6 (November/December 1994): 9-13.

Hammond, Harmony. "Class Notes." Heresis 1, no.3 (Fall 1977): 34-36.

Hammond, Harmony. "Sense of Touch." New Art Examiner 6, no.10 (Summer 1979): 4-11.

Holborn, Mark. "Nan Goldin's Ballad of Sexual Dependency: Interview by Mark Holborn." Aperture 103 (Summer 1986): 38-47.

Hulick, Diana Emery. "Laura Aguilar." Latin American Art 5, no. 3 (1993): 52-4.

Isherwood, Pam. "Pam Isherwood." Creative Camera (U.K.) 239 (November 1984): 1604-5.

JEB (Joan E. Biron). "Lesbian Photography -- Seeing Through Our Own Eyes." Visual Communication 9, no.2 (1983): 81-96.

Kanov, Lourdes. "Lesbian Artists: Reclaiming the Past, Defining the Present." Women Artists News 15, nos. 1 & 2 (Spring/Summer 1990): 13-14.

Kelley, Caffyn (ed.). "Forbidden subjects: self-portraits by lesbian artists." Gallerie: Women Artists' Monographs (Canada) 10 (September 1992): 5-96.

Kotz, Liz. "Nicole Eisenman" Artforum 32, no. 2 (October 1993): 86.

Langer, Sandra. "Cecily Cecil." Arts Magazine 59, no.9 (May 1985): 16.

Langer, Sandra. "Fashion, Character and Sexual Politics in Some Romaine Brooks' Lesbian Portraits." Art Criticism 1, no.3 (Spring 1980): 25-40.

Lichtenstein, Therese. "A Mutable Mirror: Claude Cahun." Artforum 30, no.8 (April 1992): 64-67. Claude Cahun born 1894 in Nantes as Lucy Schwob is a Surrealist Photographer, writer and object maker as well as a translator and political activist. The author Therese Lichtenstein, writer and assisting Professor of art history, discusses Cahuns self-portraits before a biographical background, describing her androgynous (self)images which lead to her lesbianness, and corrects the communication in source books on surrealism which either ignore her or refer to her as a man.

McDuffie, Carrington. "Monica Majoli, Painter." The Advocate (November 19, 1991): 69.

Olson, Jenni. "Karen Platt: Cartoonist." The Advocate (March 10, 1992): 68.

Patterson, Pam. "Kiss and Tell: Representing Lesbian Sexuality." Matriart (Canada) 1, no. 2 (Summer/Fall 1990): 17-20.

Payne, Elizabeth R. "Anne Whitney, Sculptor." Art Quarterly 25 (1962): 244-261.

Riches, Naomi. "Two Cunts are Bed/Her than One: The Art of Sandra Haar & Martha Judge." Matriart (Canada) 1, no. 2 (Summer-Fall 1990): 23-4.

Rist, Darrell Yates. "Alice Austen House: A Gay Haven on Staten Island is Reclaimed." The Advocate (January 21, 1986): 38-39.

Saslow, James M. "'Disagreeably Hidden': Construction and Constriction of the Lesbian Body in Rosa Bonheur's Horse Fair." In The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History, edited by Norma Broude and Mary Gerrard, 187-205. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.

Saslow, James M. "Sandra de Sando." The Advocate 288 (March 20, 1980).

Stamps, Wickie. "Doing Battle with Censors: Photographer Della Grace Causes a Stir with Her Lens on the Lesbian Underworld." The Advocate (July 30, 1991): 70.

Threuter, Christina. "Edition Nr. 9: 'Naked Lesbian Dance Couple' von Muda Mathis". Frauen Kunst Wissenschaft. Schwulen- und Lesbenforschung in den Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften, (Germany) 21 (1996): 100-103. Edition of five video stills with lesbian images from the video installation 'Sofies Himmel' (Sofies heaven) printed in black and white and an essay about life and work of the artist. Muda Mathis, born 1959 in Zürich, Switzerland, works with installations, video and performances. Most of her works were produced in cooperation with Pipilotti Rist, Käthe Walser et al.

Wilson, Millie. "(Untitled: Lesbian Painter)." Art Journal 54 (Spring 1995): 8-9.

Wolverton, Terry. "Portraying Sexuality: Young Artists are Transforming the World of Lesbian Art." The Advocate 574 (April 9, 1991): 70-74.

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