Martha Wilson Sourcebook Chronicles Four Decades of Feminist Performance and Alternative Art Spaces

Independent Curators International has published the Martha Wilson Sourcebook, a 272-page monograph documenting the artist's 40-year career. The book features Wilson's pioneering feminist works like Breast Forms Permutated (1972), a photographic grid critiquing sexist categorization, and A Portfolio of Models (1974), where she embodied six feminine stereotypes. These works appeared in Lucy Lippard's groundbreaking 1974 all-woman exhibition "c. 7,500" alongside Laurie Anderson, Adrian Piper, and Hanne Darboven. The Sourcebook includes photocopies from Wilson's personal library, revealing influences from Vito Acconci's 1971 Seedbed performance to Carolee Schneemann's 1975 Interior Scroll. Wilson founded Franklin Furnace in 1976 as a bookshop for artist publications, later transforming it into a virtual space in 1997 to support internet art. The publication reproduces Wilson's 2011 self-portrait announcement for her exhibition "I have become my own worst fear" at P.P.O.W. Gallery. Edited by Kate Fowle with an introduction by Moira Roth, the book retails for $25.00.