Heresies

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Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics ran independently from 1977 to 1993. Each issue focused on a different topic such as food, theater, or ecology. Between the covers you’ll find photography, film stills, sculptures, paintings, poems, prose, memoirs, collage, and documentations of performance art. Contributors included Harmony Hammond, Ida Applebroog, May Stevens, Mary Beth Edelson, Sally Webster, and Amy Sillman.

Here is the homepage for the 2009 documentary on Heresies called “The Heretics”, directed by Joan Braderman. The site includes an index to the articles.

We have 24 of the 27 issues of Heresies in our back stacks. Come explore them.

Heresies, Vol. 4, No. 1, Issue 13. 1981.
Cover, Back cover.

Heresies, Vol. 6, No. 1, Issue 21. 1987.

Heresies, Vol. 6, No. 1, Issue 21. 1987.
Cover, Back cover.

Heresies, Vol. 4, No. 2, Issue 14. 1982.
Cover, Back cover.

Heresies, Vol. 3, No. 4, Issue 12. 1981.
Cover, Back cover.

Heresies, Vol. 2, No. 3, Issue 7. Spring 1979.
From the article “Portrait of an Office” by Margaret Willey

Heresies, Vol. 2, No. 3, Issue 7. Spring 1979.

Heresies, Vol. 7, No. 3, Issue 27. 1993.

Heresies, Vol. 6, No. 3, Issue 23. 1988.
“Baby Contest” by Annette Savitski

Heresies, Vol. 5, No. 1, Issue 17. 1984.
Feminist Theatrical Performances

Heresies, Vol. 3, No. 4, Issue 12. 1981.
Jersey Shore Women’s Wrestling Club

Heresies, Vol. 7, No. 2, Issue 26. 1992.
Maria Serebriakova, untitled collage, 1989.

Heresies, Vol. 7, No. 2, Issue 26. 1992.
Russian Billboard

Heresies, Vol. 7, No. 1, Issue 25. 1990.
“Predominant Ideology” by Kristin Reed, 1988. Krylon, xerox, gouache, chalk. 12″x14″.

Heresies, Vol. 1, No. 3, Issue 3. Fall 1977.
Betsy Dam, The 7000 Year Old Woman. Performance #2, a street event, fully clothed. Photo by Su Friedrich.