HERESIES COLLECTIVE.

£6,500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

A full run of Heresies. A rare complete run of the groundbreaking feminist periodical, devoted to the examination of art and politics from a multitude of feminist perspectives. We have not encountered another on the market. It remains one of the most formidable documents of second- and third-wave feminism. While many of the small feminist presses and magazines founded in the mid-1970s were short-lived, Heresies had astonishing longevity. From the beginning, Heresies committed itself to casting feminism as a wide net. Contributors to early issues included Louise Bourgeois, Laurie Anderson, Judy Chicago, Yayoi Kusama, Carolee Schneeman, Martha Rosler, Adrienne Riche, Amy Sillman, and Ntozake Shange, among many others. The first issue included a tribute to Rosa Luxemburg, an article on the Wages for Housework campaign, an essay by Barbara Ehrenreich on socialist feminism, and poems by women in prison. This debut issue listed a 20-member collective, which included Lucy R. Lippard (a core editorial figure throughout) and artists Harmony Hammond, Joyce Kozloff, Miriam Schapiro, Joan Snyder, and May Stevens.Special issue topics included Lesbian Art and Artists (edited, designed, and with contributions exclusively by lesbians); Women in Music (with a crucial early essay by Jeanne G. Pool, founder of the International Congress on Women in Music); Women and Architecture (with work by Gwendolyn Wright, the first woman to gain tenure at Colombia's architecture school); and Earthkeeping /

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.