Jenni Sorkin is Associate Professor of History of Art & Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She writes on the intersections between gender, material culture and contemporary art, working primarily on women artists and under-represented media. Her publications include Live Form: Women, Ceramics and Community, Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women Artists, 1947-2016 and numerous essays in journals and exhibition catalogues. She was educated at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Bard College, and received her PhD from Yale University. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Modern Craft.
Introduction
1. Picturing Identity in Landscape
2. Los Tres Grandes in California: Establishing a Mural Tradition
3. Abstraction as a Framework, 1945-1965
4. Art as Power: Social Movements and Aesthetic Politics, 1968-1978
5. The "isms" Go to School: Conceptualism, Feminism, Post-Modernism
6. Spaces and Places: the Alternative Space Movement and the Marketplace
7. Disaster Fueling Culture: the 1990s and 2000s
8. Biennialism
