On the occasion of the publication of PARIS LA 17—CHANGE AGENTS (2021–2022): An intermittent, generative, open-ended, alphabetical Reading List, expanding on the artists, works, and concepts raised in the print issue.
Dora Maar — Dora Maar. Edited by Damarice Amao, Amanda Maddox, and Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2019.
— Finding Dora Maar: An Artist, an Address Book, a Life. By Brigitte Benkemoun. Translated by Jody Gladding. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2020.
Christine Macel and Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska — Women in Abstraction. Edited by Macel and Ziebinska-Lewandowska. Texts by Griselda Pollock, Anne Montfort-Tanguy, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Macel, and Ziebinska-Lewandowska. London: Thames and Hudson, 2021.
Alice Mackler — Alice Mackler. Texts by Matthew Higgs and Kelly Taxter. Interview by Joanne Greenbaum. New York: Gregory R. Miller; New York Consolidated, 2021.
Tala Madani — Tala Madani. Edited by Nicholas Bourriaud. Montpellier: La Panacée; Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 2017.
— Biscuits. Texts by Rebecca Lowery, Maggie Nelson, and Evan Calder Williams. Interview by Ali Subotnick. Los Angeles: MOCA; London: Mack Books, 2022.
Marie Maertens — American Women: The Infinite Journey. Edited by Maertens. Brussels: Editions de La Patinoire Royale; Galerie Valérie Bach, 2020.
Jill Magid — Tender. Edited by Karsten Lund. Texts by Claire Bishop, Nikki Columbus, Jamilah King, and Aden Kumler. Interview by Justine Ludwig and Lund. Chicago: Renaissance Society, 2021.
Antje-Britt Mählmann — Female View: Women Fashion Photographers from Modernity to the Digital Age. Edited by Mählmann. Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2022.
Inge Mahn — Inge Mahn. Texts by Robert Fleck, Noemi Smolik, and Stephan von Wiese. Berlin: Holzwarth Publications, 2016.
Vivian Maier — Vivian Maier. Texts by Anne Morin, Christa Blümlinger, and Ann Marks. London: Thames and Hudson, 2022.
Anna Maria Maiolino — Entre Pausas. Texts by Tania Rivera, Randy Kennedy, and Maiolino. Zürich: Hauser & Wirth, 2019.
Nalini Malani — Malani. Edited by Sophie Duplaix. Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2018.
— The Rebellion of the Dead. Edited by Marcella Beccaria. Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2018.
Janet Malcolm — “A Girl of the Zeitgeist” [Ingrid Sischy, 1986]. In The Purloined Clinic: Selected Writings. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.
Ann Mandelbaum — Matter. Texts by Heloise Conesa and Ulrich Pohlmann. Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2023.
Babette Mangolte — Selected Writings, 1998–2015. London: Sternberg Press, 2018.
Sally Mann — A Thousand Crossings. By Sarah Greenough and Sarah Kennel. New York: Abrams Books, 2018.
Jumana Manna — A Small Big Thing. London: Sternberg Press, 2018.
Erin Manning — Always More Than One: Individuation’s Dance. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013.
— The Minor Gesture. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016.
— For a Pragmatics of the Useless. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020.
Ana Manso — Agar. Rome: Cura, 2020.
Margherita Manzelli — Margherita Manzelli. Texts by Paolo Colombo, Enrique Juncosa and Manzelli. Milan: Charta, 2004.
Jessie Maple — How to Become a Union Camerawoman: Film–Videotape. New York: LJ Film Productions, 1977.
Roxana Marcoci — Our Selves: Photographs by Women Artists. Edited by Marcoci. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2022.
Sara Marcus — “Page Turners: Sara Marcus on Heresies.” Artforum 57, no. 9 (May 2019).
Teresa Margolles — “Teresa Margolles.” By Nika Chilewich. In Witch Hunt. Edited by Connie Butler and Anne Ellegood. Los Angeles: Hammer Museum, 2021.
Marisol — Marisol and Warhol Take New York. Edited by Jessica Beck. Pittsburgh: Andy Warhol Museum, 2021.
— Marisol: A Retrospective. Edited with introduction by Cathleen Chaffee. Texts by Anna Katherine Brodbeck, Estrellita Brodsky, Alex Da Corte, Mary-Dailey Desmarais, Jessica S. Hong, Jason Hose, Janne Sirén, Delia Solomons, and Julia Vázquez. Buffalo, NY: Buffalo AKG Art Museum; New York: DelMonico Books, 2023.
Charlott Markus — Some Things Bleak. Texts by Sophia Seawell and Markus. Amsterdam: Fw:Books, 2022.
Anna O. Marley — Women in Motion: 150 Years of Women’s Artistic Networks at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2021.
Agnes Martin — Writings / Schriften. Edited by Dieter Schwarz. Ostfildern, Germany: Cantz Verlag, 1991.
— Agnes Martin. Edited by Barbara Haskell. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1992.
— Paintings, Writings, and Remembrances [2012]. By Arne Glimcher. London: Phaidon, 2021.
— Agnes Martin. Edited by Frances Morris and Tiffany Bell. London: Tate, 2015.
— Agnes Martin: The Distillation of Color. Texts by Durga Chew-Bose, Marc Glimcher, Bruce Hainley, Andria Hickey, Olivia Laing, and Martin. New York: Pace Publishing, 2022.
— Agnes Martin: Independence of Mind. Edited by Chelsea Weathers. Texts by Teju Cole, Jennie C. Jones, et al. Santa Fe: Radius Books, 2022.
Douglas A. Martin — Acker. Brooklyn: Nightboat Books, 2017.
Alex Martinis Roe — To Become Two: Propositions for Feminist Collective Practice. Berlin: Archive Books, 2018.
Maria Martins — Tropical Fictions. Edited by Isabella Rjeille. São Paulo: Museu de Arte de São Paulo, 2022.
Alice Trumbull Mason — Pioneer of American Abstraction. New York: Rizzoli Electa, 2020.
Katja Mater — Time is an Arrow, Error. Text by Amelia Groom. Self-published by the artist, printed by Wilco Art Books, 2021.
Matrix — Making Space: Women and the Man-Made Environment [1984]. London: Verso, 2022.
Christy Matson — Currents 38. Edited by Monica Obniski. Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Museum, 2022.
Alessandra Mattanza — Women Street Artists: 24 Contemporary Graffiti and Mural Artists from Around the World. Munich: Prestel, 2022.
Bernadette Mayer — Works and Days. New York: New Directions, 2016.
— Memory. South Egremont, MA: Siglio, 2020.
Mónica Mayer — When in Doubt… Ask: A Retrocollective Exhibit. Edited by Ekaterina Álvarez Romero. Texts by Karen Cordero Reiman, Andrea Giunta, Sol Henaro, Erin L. McCutcheon, and Griselda Pollock. Interviews and Correspondence by Pablo Helguera, Amelia Jones, María Laura Rosa, and Mayer. Mexico City: Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, UNAM, 2016.
Rosemary Mayer — Excerpts From the 1971 Journal of Rosemary Mayer. Edited by Marie Warsh. Chicago: Soberscove Press, 2020.
— Ways of Attaching. Edited by Eva Birkenstock, Laura McLean-Ferris, Robert Leckie, and Stephanie Weber. Cologne: Walther König; Munich: Lenbachhaus; Aachen, Germany: Ludwig Forum; Bristol, UK: Spike Island; New York: Swiss Institute, 2022.
— “Nothing Independent of Its Circumstances: Rosemary Mayer.” By Wendy Vogel. Mousse 83 (Spring 2023).
Rosemary Mayer and Bernadette Mayer — The Letters of Rosemary and Bernadette Mayer, 1976–1980. Edited by Gillian Sneed and Marie Warsh. Munich: Lenbachhaus; Aachen, Germany: Ludwig Forum; Bristol, UK: Spike Island; New York: Swiss Institute, 2022.
Tiona Nekkia McClodden — Se te subió el santo. New York: Capricious, 2019.
— “Six Movements for Shango, Xangô, Changó, Ṣàngó.” In Love and Ethnology: The Colonial Dialectic of Sensitivity (After Hubert Fichte). Edited by Diedrich Diederichsen, Anselm Franke, and Haus der Kulturen der Welt. London: Sternberg Press, 2019.
— MASK/CONCEAL/CARRY. Texts by Ebony L. Hayes and McClodden. Poem by Rhea Dillon. Interview by Simone White. New York: 52 White; David Zwirner Books, 2023.
Reverend Joyce McDonald — “Deliverance Through Clay.” By John Chiaverina. Independent, April 27, 2022.
Uri McMillan — Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance. New York: New York University Press, 2015.
Juanita McNeely — Juanita McNeely. New York: James Fuentes Press, 2022.
Josephine Meckseper — The Josephine Meckseper Catalogue No. 1. Text by John Kelsey and Andrew Ross. London: Sternberg Press, 2004.
— The Josephine Meckseper Catalogue No. 2. Text by Sylvère Lotringer. London: Sternberg Press, 2006.
— Josephine Meckseper. Text by Joshua Decter. Carquefou, FR: Frac des Pays de la Loire; London: Sternberg Press, 2020.
Julie Mehretu — Julie Mehretu. Edited by Christine Y. Kim and Rujeko Hockley. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art; Munich: DelMonico/Prestel, 2019.
— Interview by Phong H. Bui. The Brooklyn Rail, June 2021.
Susan Meiselas — Carnival Strippers Revisited. Texts by Felix Hoffmann and Abigail Solomon-Godeau. Göttingen: Steidl; Berlin: C/O Berlin, 2022. [Carnival Strippers, 1976.]
— On the Frontline. Edited and interview by Mark Holborn. London: Thames & Hudson, 2017.
— Mediations. Texts by Ariella Azoulay, Eduardo Cadava, Marta Gili, Carles Guerra, Marianne Hirsch, Kristen Lubben, Isin Önol, and Pia Viewing. Bologna: Damiani, 2018.
Ana Mendieta — Traces. Edited by Stephanie Rosenthal. Essays by Julia Bryan-Wilson, Adrian Heathfield, and Rosenthal. London: Hayward Publishing, 2013.
— She Got Love. Texts by Beatrice Merz and Olga Gambari. Turin: Castello di Rivoli d’Arte Contemporanea, 2013.
— Covered in Time and History: The Films of Ana Mendieta. Edited by Howard Oransky. Texts by John Perreault, Michael Rush, Rachel Weiss, Lynn Lukkas, Raquel Cecilia Mendieta, and Laura Wertheim Joseph. Minneapolis: Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota; Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015.
— Where Is Ana Mendiata?: Identity, Performativity, and Exile. By Jane Blocker. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999.
— Dialectics of Isolation: An Exhibition of Third World Women Artists of the United States. Edited by Mendieta. New York: A.I.R. Gallery, 1980.
— Earth Body: Sculpture and Performance. By Olga Viso. Washington, DC: Hirshhorn Museum; Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2004.
Prabhavathi Meppayil — Prabhavathi Meppayil. Texts by Mami Kataoka, Rosalind Krauss, and Michaëla de Lacaze Mohrmann. Interview by Wells Fray-Smith. New York: Pace, 2022.
Iman Mersal — How to Mend: Motherhood and Its Ghosts. Translated by Robin Moger. Cairo: Kayfa-ta; London: Sternberg Press, 2018.
— The Threshold. Translated by Robyn Creswell. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
Marisa Merz — The Sky Is a Great Space. Edited by Connie Butler. Los Angeles: Hammer Museum; New York: DelMonico / Prestel, 2017.
— “Marisa Merz, 2011.” In Conserving the Future. By Chiara Bertola. Venice: bruno; Fondazione Querini Stampalia, 2023.
Amalia Mesa-Bains — Venus Envy Chapter One (Of the First Holy Communion Moments Before the End). Text by Thelma Golden. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1993.
— Ceremony of Spirit: Nature and Memory in Contemporary Latino Art. Edited by Mesa-Bains. San Francisco: Mexican Museum, 1993.
Caroline Mesquita — The Ballad. Edited by Martha Kirszenbaum. Rome: Cura Books, 2019.
Annette Messager — Exhibition Exposition. Düsseldorf: Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen; Munich: Hirmer, 2015.
Rachel Middleman — Radical Eroticism: Women, Art, and Sex in the 1960s. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018.
Lee Miller — Photographs. Edited by Anthony Penrose. Text by Kate Winslet. London: Thames and Hudson, 2023.
Lee Miller and Man Ray — Fashion, Love, War. Edited by Victoria Noel-Johnson. Milan: Skira, 2023.
Lynn F. Miller and Sally S. Swenson — Lives and Works: Talks with Women Artists. Metuchen, NJ and London: Scarecrow Press, 1981.
Nicole Miller — Michael in Black. Edited by Lauren Mackler and Miller. Text and image contributions by Jared Sexton, Hannah Black, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Greg Tate, Ocean Vuong, Negar Azimi, Anna Deveare Smith, Nikita Gale, Kazu Hiro, Ligia Lewis, and Jasper Marsalis. New York: Center for Art, Research, and Alliances, 2022.
Shala Miller — Tender Noted. Brooklyn: Wendy’s Subway, 2022.
Marilyn Minter — Pretty/Dirty. New York: Gregory R. Miller, 2015.
— Elder Sex. Text by Naomi Fry. Paris: JBE Books; New York: LGDR, 2023.
Na Mira — The Book of Na. Brooklyn: Wendy’s Subway, 2022.
Stefania Miscetti — She Devil. Edited by Miscetti. Rome: Cura, 2019.
Joan Mitchell — I carry my landscapes around with me. New York: David Zwirner, 2020.
— Joan Mitchell. By Sarah Roberts and Katy Siegel. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2021.
— Paintings, 1979–1985. Texts by Julie Otsuka, Amy Sillman, Shinique Smith, and Lily Stockman. Interview by Yves Michaud. New York: David Zwirner, 2024.
Helen Molesworth — “Under the Volcano: Helen Molesworth in Conversation with Dorothée Perret.” PARIS LA 14 (Winter 2016).
— Open Questions: Thirty Years of Writing About Art. London: Phaidon, 2023.
Dianna Molzan — The Tahoma Mall. Texts by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer and Molzan. New York: Center for Art, Research, and Alliances, 2022.
Kate Mondloch — A Capsule Aesthetic: Feminist Materialisms in New Media Art. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019.
Meredith Monk — Calling. Edited by Anna Schneider, Beatrix Ruf, and Peter Sciscioli. Texts by Hilton Als, Mariette Dölle, Siri Engberg, Andrea Lissoni, Bonnie Marranca, Meredith Monk, Rick Moody, Timothy Morton, Adam Shatz, Louise Steinman, John Luther Adams, Carla Blank, Theo Bleckmann, Tom Bogdan, Ping Chong, Manfred Eicher, Ellen Fisher, Katie Geissinger, Andrea Goodman, Ann Hamilton, Lanny Harrison, Jim Hodges, Pico Iyer, Joan Jonas, Alex Katz, John R. Killacky, Ralph Lemon, Bobby McFerrin, Bruce Nauman, Shirin Neshat, Frank J. Oteri, Ishmael Reed, Tennessee Reed, Alex Ross, Yuval Sharon, Allison Sniffin, Jean-Louis Tallon, Anne Waldman, Yoshio Yabara, John Zorn, Ruf, Schneider, and Sciscioli. Amsterdam: Hartwig Art Foundation; Munich: Haus der Kuntz; Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2024.
Linda Mary Montano — You Too Are a Performance Artist. Edited by Joanne Lefrak and Tim Scott. Texts by Janet Dees, Irene Hofmann, and Montano. Santa Fe: SITE Santa Fe, 2013.
Anne Moody — Coming of Age in Mississippi: An Autobiography. New York: Dial Press, 1969.
Paige Jiyoung Moon — “New and Recent Work.” By Charlotte Strick. Paris Review 236 (Spring 2021).
Lisa L. Moore — Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Sabra Moore — Openings: A Memoir from the Women’s Art Movement, New York City 1970–1992. New York: New Village, 2016.
Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa — This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. 4th edition. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2015.
Camille Morineau and Lucia Pesapane — Women House. Edited by Morineau and Pesapane. Paris: Manuella Éditions; Monnaie de Paris; Washington, DC: National Museum of Women in the Arts, 2018.
Rebecca Morrill, Karen Wright, and Louisa Elderton — Great Women Artists. Edited by Morrill, Wright, and Elderton. London: Phaidon, 2019.
Catherine Morris and Rujeko Hockley — We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85: A Sourcebook. Edited by Morris and Hockley. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017.
— We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85: New Perspectives. Edited by Morris and Hockley. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017.
Rebecca Morris — Paintings 1996–2005. Texts by Diedrich Diederichsen and Stephen Westfall. Chicago: Renaissance Society, 2005.
— Rebecca Morris. Texts by John Corbett and Janet Sarbanes. Chicago: Corbett vs. Dempsey, 2016.
Sarah Morris — Capital. Essay by Ronald Jones. Cologne: Oktagon, 2008.
— 1972. Text by Matthias Mühling. Cologne: Walther König, 2008.
— Capital Letters Read Better for Initials. Text by Frédéric Paul. Osterrade, Germany: August, 2016.
Toni Morrison — The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
Nicole Erin Morse — Selfie Aesthetics: Seeing Trans Feminist Futures in Self-Representational Art. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022.
Ree Morton — Works 1971–1977. Edited by Sabine Folie. Vienna: Verlag für Moderne Kunst, 2009.
— The Plant That Heals May Also Poison. Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, 2019.
Serubiri Moses — “Counter-Imaginaries: ‘Women Artists on the Move,’ ‘Second to None’ and ‘Like a Virgin…’ ” Afterall 47 (Spring-Summer 2019).
Cookie Mueller — Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black. South Pasadena, CA: Semiotext(e), 1990; expanded edition, 2022.
— Edgewise: A Picture of Cookie Mueller. By Chloé Griffin. Berlin: b_books, 2014.
Zanele Muholi — Zanele Muholi. Edited by Allen Sarah and Yasufumi Nakori. London, Tate Publishing, 2020.
Charlotte Mullins — A Little Feminist History of Art. London: Tate, 2019.
Laura Mulvey — Visual and Other Pleasures. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.
Eleanor Munro — Originals: American Women Artists. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979. Expanded edition published by Da Capo in 2000.
Elizabeth Murray — Painting in the ’80s. Text by Kellie Jones. New York: Pace Gallery, 2018.
Elizabeth Murray and Jessi Reaves — Wild Life. Edited by Karen Kelly, Rebecca Matalon, and Barbara Schroeder. Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum; Brooklyn: Dancing Foxes Press, 2021.
Soraya Murray — “Domestic Snapshots: Female Self-Imaging Practices Then and Now.” In Visual Culture Approaches to the Selfie. Edited by Derek Conrad Murray. New York: Routledge, 2022.
Wangechi Mutu — A Shady Promise. Edited by Douglas Singleton. Texts by Isolde Brielmaier, Malik Gaines, and Michael Veal. Bologna: Damiani, 2008.
— In Whose Image? Text by Angela Stief. Interview by Gerald Matt. Vienna: Verlag für Moderne Kunst, 2009.
— Wangechi Mutu. Edited by David Moos. Fredericton, NB: Goose Lane Editions, 2010.
— My Dirty Little Heaven. Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2010.
— I Am Speaking, Are You Listening? Edited by Claudia Schmuckli. Interview by Isaac Julien and Schmuckli. New York: DelMonico; San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2021.
— Intertwined. Edited by Margot Norton and Vivian Crockett. Texts by Tina Campt, Maureen Mahon, and Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor. New York: New Museum, 2023.
Eileen Myles — Chelsea Girls [1994]. New York: Harper Collins, 2015.
— The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art. Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2009.
— I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems. New York: Harper Collins, 2016.
— Evolution. New York: Grove Press, 2019.
— For Now. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020.
— “Eileen Myles Chronicles a People’s History of East River Park.” Document 20 (Summer / Pre-Fall 2022).
Jumana Manna, Wild Relatives, 2018, still, Syrian women working in the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) fields, Terbol, Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, image © Jumana Manna, courtesy of the artist; Nalini Malani, The Rebellion of the Dead, image courtesy and © Nalini Malani and Hatje Cantz.