Mara Witzling |
maraw@hopper.unh.edu |
Professor of Art History, Coordinator of Women's Studies
Mara R. Witzling is Professor of Art and Art History, a member of the Women's Studies Core faculty, and the coordinator of the UNH Women's Studies Program. An art historian whose initial field of expertise is illuminated manuscripts, she was trained at Queens College, C.U.N.Y., and Cornell University. Most recently she has investigated women artists and their writings, particularly in her two critical anthologies -- Voicing Our Visions: Writings by Women Artists (Universe, 1991) and Voicing Today's Visions: Writings by Contemporary Women Artists (Universe, 1994). She was a contributor and adviser to the Dictionary of Women Artists (Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997), for which she wrote the general introduction. She has also published a monograph on Mary Cassatt and an interview with Faith Ringgold, among other scholarly writings. She is currently working on a book of essays concerned with gender and its impact on art and artistic vocation. She teaches courses dealing with women artists and the artistic representation of women.
Publications
Voicing Our Visions
Writings by Women Artists
Edited by Mara R. Witzling
"Voicing Our Visions is indeed a quilt of many colors, full of revelations even for a longtime feminist art lover. It is that rare item -- a valuable reference book that is also a good read. The lives of these artists, spanning a century . . . seem somehow familiar. Women artists' lives have changed, but maybe not that much."
--Lucy R. Lippard
Over the centuries, the art establishment has turned a deaf ear to the voices of women artists. These women were not silent, however, but constantly struggling to articulate their experience For the first time, the unique and powerful voices of 20 female artists of the 19th and 20th centuries have been gathered together in a single volume. Included are excerpts from their letters, essays, articles, stories, poems, and aesthetic manifestoes.
Artists include: Berthe Morisot, Barbara Hepworth, Mary Cassatt, Frida Kahlo, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Faith Ringgold, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Judy Chicago
Each chapter is introduced by a biographical sketch, a critical discussion of the artist's work and her place in the history of art, followed by selections from her writings.