"Research ain't nuthin but formalized curiosity, just poking and prying with a purpose." Sanctified Betye Saar (b. 1926) Los Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary Art, 1990 N7433.4 S22 S26 1990 Betye Saar began her artistic career as a printmaker. Sanctified was published on the occasion of the installation (April 22...

“A woman might as well turn farmer, and undertake the plowing and ditching herself, because she wants a tulip-bed, as undertake the whole field of politics because the part which relates to her needs fresh seeding down.” -- Mary Abilgail Dodge Woman's Worth and Worthlessness Mary Abigail...

From the artist’s statement: “The book embodied the conflicts I had with the traditions of fiction in which I had been steeped as a young writer and the terms of literary production I was being exposed to in the Bay Area literary scene, as well...