Endnotes
1 In grateful acknowledgment of Diane di Prima's 1958 book of the same title.
2 "The critics and art historians seem endlessly caught up in 'style' of art and how it can conveniently fit into a safe niche in art history. But any artist who has worked seriously for a number of years automatically abandons linear thinking and begins to realize that patterns repeat themselves in cycles." Joan Brown in "The Artist versus the Art Historian and the Art Critic," "Equal Time," Images & Issues 3 (January – February 1983), p. 6.
3 Interview with Brown by Michael Auping, 30 Years: Interviews and Outtakes (Fort Worth, Texas: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in association with Prestel, 2007), pp. 55 – 56.
4 Archives of American Art (AAA), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, transcribed interview with Brown by Paul Karlstrom, San Francisco, p. 49.
5 For further information on Brown's work and biography, see Karen Tsujimoto and Jacquelynn Baas, The Art of Joan Brown (Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1998).
6 Jay DeFeo quoted in Brenda Knight, Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists, & Muses at the Heart of a Revolution (Berkeley, California: Conari Press, 1996), p. 327.
7 Archives of American Art (AAA), Karlstrom, p. 54.
8 Frank H. Goodyear, Jr., Seven on the Figure: Jack Beal, William Beckman, Joan Brown, John De Andrea, Willem de Kooning, Stephen De Staebler, Ben Kamihira (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1979), p. 34.
9 Interview with Brown by Lynn Gumpert, in Early Work: Lynda Benglis, Joan Brown, Luis Jimenez, Gary Stephan, Lawrence Weiner (New York: The New Museum, 1982), p. 17.
10 Brown described working at home: "I stopped working there [her studio at 9 Mission Street, San Francisco] when my son Noel was born; I realized that with a baby I would have to work at home. At that point, I had no choice, but I have done so ever since because I prefer it." The Early Sixties: Jack Beal and Joan Brown (New York: Allan Frumkin Gallery, 1985), n.p.
11 Michael Duncan, "The Self and Its Symbols," Art in America 5 (May 2000), p. 152.
12 Self-Portraits by Women Artists (Los Angeles: Gallery at the Plaza, Security Pacific National Bank, 1985), p. 17.
13 Interview with Brown, Gumpert, p. 19.
