Since the 1990s, women artists have led the contemporary art world in the creation of art depicting female adolescence, producing challenging, critically debated and avidly collected artworks that are driving the current and momentous shift in the perception of women in art. Girls! Girls! Girls! presents essays from established and up-and-coming scholars who address a variety of themes, including narcissism, nostalgia, post-feminism and fantasy with the goal of approaching the overarching question of why women artists are turning in such numbers to the subject of girls – and what these artistic explorations signify. Artists discussed include Anna Gaskell, Marlene Mc Carty, Sue de Beer, Miwa Yanagi, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Collier Schorr and more.
Contributors include Lucy Soutter, Harriet Riches, Maud Lavin, Taru Elfving, Kate Random Love, and Carol Mavor.
About the author
Catherine Grant (Ph.D.) is a music educator and researcher at Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University (Brisbane, Australia), with research interests in music and social justice, higher music education and cultural sustainability. Grant is author of the monograph Music Endangerment (Oxford University Press, 2014) and co-editor of the award-winning volume Sustainable Futures for Music Cultures (Oxford University Press, 2016). She is recent recipient of an Endeavour Australia Research Fellowship, British Museum Endangered Material Knowledge Program grant and an Australian Future Justice medal for her research, advocacy and activism on cultural sustainability. Grant’s research has featured in media including the Boston Globe, The Australian, The Conversation and radio stations in Australia, Cambodia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Contact: Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, PO Box 3428, South Brisbane, Turrbal and Yuggera Country, QLD, 4101, Australia.
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