| Description | File includes programme for the session 'The practice of sculpture : towards a feminist critique', convened by Mitchell for the Association of Art Historians' Conference, Leeds (10-12 April).
Speakers : Lorna Green, Alison Yarrington, Carola Muysers, Erich Ranfft, Alan Bird, Hélèna Staub, Hélène Pinet, Mitchell, Himid, Anne Wagner, Judith Mastai, and Yvonne Deane.
Letter thanks Himid for her paper on US sculptor Augusta Savage.
Mentions Himid's recent exhibition in New York (Peg Alston Fine Arts) and her forthcoming show at Rochdale Art Gallery. Alludes to the 1992 Los Angeles Riots in response to the acquittal of the police officers who beat up Rodney King : 'what a sadly true foresight you have had in writing of those "who understood that [the Law] was all stitched up"!'. |