Laura Cottingham

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Laura Cottingham (b. 1963) is an art critic who lives in New York. She taught contemporary art issues in the College of Art at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.

[edit] Works

A selection of her essays on art was printed in 1999. A French edition of her 1994 pamphlet How many 'bad' feminists does it take to change a lightbulb? was also published in France, in 1999. She is also author of Lesbians Are So Chic... (1996).

In 1998 she made a video called Not For Sale: Feminism and Art in the USA during the 1970s.

[edit] Bibliography

How many "bad" feminists does it take to change a lightbulb? (New York: Sixty Percent Solution, 1994) [French edition, 2002, ISBN 2-912631-01-7]
Bad Girls (London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1996) ISBN 0-905263-34-0 [with Cherry Smith]
Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago's Dinner Party in Feminist Art History (Los Angeles: University of California, 1996) ISBN 0-520-20565-0 [editor and contributor]
Eating from 'The Dinner Party' Plates and Other Myths, Metaphors, and Moments of Lesbian Enunciation in Feminism and Its Art Movement. in Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago's Dinner Party in Feminist Art History
Lesbians are so chic…That We Are Not Really Lesbians at All (New York: Cassell, 1996) ISBN 0-304-33721-8
Hot Potato: From Formalism to Feminism (New York: G+B Arts International, 1997) ISBN 90-5701-011-9 [with Lucy Lippard]
The Feminist Art Movement in the USA 1970-79 (New York: Distributed Art, 1997) ISBN 2-910949-01-X
Seeing Through the Seventies: Essays on Feminism and Art (New York: G+B Arts International, 1999) ISBN 90-5701-212-X
Space Oddity (lesson in survival) (New York: Debs & Co., 1999) ISBN 0-9661423-9-X [with Chuck Nanney and Sylvie Ball]
The Art of Mary Beth Edelson (New York: Seven Cycles, 2002) ISBN 0-9604650-6-5 [with others]
Fear Eats the Soul (London: British Film Institute, 2005) ISBN 1-84457-071-1