Publications

BOOKS (sole author):

Women Artists: An Illustrated History (NY: Abbeville Press; originally published in 1987; revised and expanded editions: #2, 1991; #3, 1997; #4, 2004. British edition published by Virago Press in 1988; German translation published by VGS in 1989; French translation published by Herscher in 1991).

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Why a Painting is Like a Pizza: A Guide to Understanding and Enjoying Modern Art (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002).

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BOOKS (contributor/co-editor):

“Shapes Made of Air: The Life and Art of Ibram Lassaw,” essay in the catalogue for Figge Art Museum exhibition, “Quanta of Space: The Bosom Sculptures of Ibram Lassaw” (Andrew Wallace, ed.) (Scheidegger & Spiess, 2023), pp. 20-39.

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Imaging Dance: Visual Representations of Dancers and Dancing (co-editor—with Barbara Sparti, Judy Van Zile, Adrienne L. Kaeppler, and Elsie Ivancich Dunin, and author of lead essay—“When is a Circle Dance Simply a Circle? Matisse and the Sardana) (Hildesheim: Germany: Georg Olms Verlag, 2011).

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“Portraying the Art of Flamenco, Embodying Spanish Dance,” in the exhibition catalogue Sargent and Spain by Sarah Cash, Elaine Kilmurray, and Richard Ormond (National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC and Yale University Press, 2022), pp.48-99.

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Women Artists: Works from the National Museum of Women in the Arts, co-author (NY: Rizzoli Publishers, 2000.)

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“Flamenco in La Flor de mi Secreto: Re-Appropriation and Subversion in a Film by Pedro Almodóvar,” in Flamenco on the Global Stage: Historical, Critical, and Theoretical Perspectives (eds. K. Meira Goldberg, Michelle Heffner Hayes, and Ninothchka Bennahum)

(McFarland & Co., 2015), pp. 244-251.

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North American Women Artists of the 20 th Century: A Biographical Dictionary (co-edited with Jules Heller) (NY: Garland, 1995; paperback edition published in 1997).

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SCHOLARLY JOURNALS:

“What’s There, What’s Not: A Performer’s View of El Jaleo,” American Art (journal of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American Art), vol. 14, no. 1 (Spring 2000), pp. 8-23.

“Flamenco in America: A New Film (review of Sobre las olas: A Story of Flamenco in the U.S. [2013] by Carolina Loyola-García), in Dance Chronicle, vol. 38. Issue 2 (Summer 2015), pp. 255-259.

Review of monograph, Edna Andrade, by Debra Bricker Balken for Woman’s Art Journal, vol. 38, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2017), pp. 57-59.

Review of monograph, Agnes Martin, by Henry Martin for Woman’s Art Journal, vol. 39, no. 2 (Fall/Winter 2018)

Review of the National Ballet of Spain’s NYC performance in Ballet Review, 46.3 (Fall 2018), pp. 20-23.

Narssarrsuaq II, 1973, silkscreen print

by Jules Heller