The Essential Jill Johnston Reader

By: Jill Johnston

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Hardcover | 29 October 2024

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Jill Johnston began the 1960s as an influential dance columnist for the Village Voice and by the start of the next decade she was known as a keen observer of postmodern art and lesbian feminist life who challenged how dance, art, and women can and should be seen. The Essential Jill Johnston Reader collects dozens of pieces of her writing from across her career. These writings--many of which appeared in the Village Voice and the New York Times--survey the breadth of her work, braiding together her thinking, writing, and activism. From personal essays, travel writing, and artist profiles to dance and visual art reviews as well as her infamous series of columns for the Voice in which she came out as a lesbian, these pieces demonstrate the evolution of her philosophies and writing style. Illustrating how Johnston drew on lessons from dance to reconsider what it means to be a woman, this collection brings a fascinating and brilliant voice of American arts criticism, radical feminism, and gay liberation back to contemporary audiences.

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"Anyone who wants to understand the trajectory of American art from the postwar period to the present will want to read this book. Jill Johnston was at the center of the big shift as modernism gave way to postmodernism, not only as a chronicler but as an instigator, as boundaries between previously discrete forms were dissolved, as old certainties opened into ongoing inquiries and persistent questions and the line between making art and social change became illegible. Anyone who enjoys creative nonfiction and adventurous writing will want to dip into this fabulous collection again and again." -- Holly Hughes, Professor, Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design, University of Michigan
"There is so much to learn from Jill Johnston about dance history, art history, literary history, the history of criticism, and feminist and lesbian history. So often, all of these fields come together within the space of a single piece of Johnston's writing, or even a single beautiful sentence or profound turn of phrase. This book is an absolute pleasure to read." -- Anthea Kraut, author of * Choreographing Copyright: Race, Gender, and Intellectual Property Rights in American Dance *

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