Published on occasion of the exhibition “Picturing the Modern Amazon.” Across two centuries of images, the physically strong woman is studied in this volume as a major player in popular culture and contemporary art. Using the bodybuilder as prototype, a rich variety of authors engage with her particular physicality, and how it resonates with social issues such as female pleasure and gender stereotypes. Foreword by Marcia Tucker with contributions from Michael Cunningham, Nathalie Gassel, Leslie Heywood, Irving Lavin, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, Al Thomas, Jan Todd, Steve Wennerstrom, and Carla Williams. Includes interviews with noted bodybuilders Pudgy Stockton, Bev Francis, Lenda Murray, Andrulla Blanchette, and René Toney. Co-edited by Joanna Frueh, Laurie Fierstein, and Judith Stein.

Picturing the Modern Amazon
Exhibition Catalogue
2000
176 pages; hardcover; 79 black and white, 78 color illustrations
New York, New Museum of Contemporary Art; New York, Rizzoli
ISBN: 0847822478