Time Capsule - A Concise Encyclopedia by Women Artists

To commemorate the United Nations' Fourth World Conference on Women, Creative Time put forth a difficult challenge to visual artist Robin Kahn. Her provocation was to develop a "public art project" that would embrace the creative contributions of female artists from around the world and easily travel to international destinations. The fruits of this artist's singular vision and sheer passion is Time Capsule. The seven hundred-page anthology opens with introductions by Kathy Acker and Avital Ronell and contains visual and textual essays by more than five hundred female artists from countries all over the world, including Kenya, the Czech Republic, Russia, Cuba, and more.
 
Prominent artists represented in this volume include: April Gornik, the Guerilla Girls, Lynda Benglis, Vivienne Koorland, Svetlana Kopystiansky, Joan Jonas, Alison Knowles, Barbara Kruger, Carolee Schneemann, Rosemarie Castoro, Yayoi Kusama, and May Stevens.