Anonymous Was A Woman: The First 25 Years

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Discover over 250 contemporary women recipients of the "Anonymous Was A Woman" award.

Anonymous Was A Woman: The First 25 Years celebrates the transformative impact of women artists on contemporary art since the founding of the titular grant. In addition to new essays, the book offers a biographical description with selected artworks of each artist who received the Anonymous Was A Woman (AWAW) award from its founding in 1996 through 2020, a period in which the accomplishments of women have thoroughly transformed contemporary art.

In honour of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the AWAW award, this landmark publication commemorates 251 recipients. Surveying their careers offers a wealth of previously untold histories. Anonymous Was A Woman also includes contributions by coeditors Nancy Princenthal and Vesela Sretenovi, along with commentaries by other women scholars, as well as a round-table discussion featuring founder Susan Unterberg.

Author Bio

Nancy Princenthal is a Brooklyn-based writer whose book Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art received the 2016 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. She is also the author of Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s and Hannah Wilke. Princenthal has taught at Bard, Princeton, Yale, the School of Visual Arts, NYU's Institute of Fine Arts, and elsewhere.

Vesela Sretenovi is visiting faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University and works as an independent curator of modern and contemporary art.

Contributions by Nancy Princenthal, Vesela Sretenovic, Valerie Cassel Oliver, Alexandra Schwartz, Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Jenni Sorkin, Gaby Collins-Fernandez.