Joan Jonas
An acclaimed multi-media performance artist, Joan Jonas is also a major figure in video art. From her seminal performance-based exercises of the 1970s to her later televisual narratives, Jonas engages in an elusive theatrical portrayal of female identity. Employing an idiosyncratic vocabulary of ritualized gesture and symbolic objects that include masks, mirrors, and costuming, she explores the self and the body through layers of meaning. full biography
Bibliography
"Joan Jonas: Five Works." Flushing, NY: Queens Museum of Art, 2004. Text by Susan Howe, Jeanne Heuving, Carlos Amorales, Barbara Clausen, Sung Kim, Astrid Klein, John Miller, Paul D. Miller, and Marina Warner.
Crimp, Douglas, ed. Joan Jonas: Scripts and Descriptions, 1968-1982, Berkeley, California: University Art Museum, 1983.
Mignot, Dorine, ed. Joan Jonas: Works 1968-1994, Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1994.
Schmidt, Johann-Karl, ed. Joan Jonas: Performance Video Installation 1968-2000, Galerie de Stadt Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2000. Essays by Ralf Christofori, Chrissie Iles, Andrea Jahn, Johann-Karl Schmidt, Joan Simon, Annette Tietenberg. In German and English.
Smith, Roberta. "An Artist's Span, Austere to Extravagant." The New York Times 19 Dec. 2003.
