Art in America - contemporary women artists

If there is one central conclusion to be drawn from the recent array of books and catalogues on contemporary women artists, it is that there exists no such thing as women’s art, or even feminist art. Indeed, as many feminist scholars, critics and artists have long argued, possession of a uterus, or identification with feminism, in no way determines, much less defines, the nature of women’s artistic production. Despite the existence of an extensive bibliography seeking to codify feminine esthetics in visual art, the more women artists become critically visible, the less they reveal any overarching features that might be said to reveal their sex. This is not to deny that anatomy, sexuality, psychology and feminist politics may be factors in both the conception and meaning of an artist’s work, but this is far from constituting the artistic equivalent of sexual determinism.

Do terms like "identity", "identity politics", and "gender identity", typically

refused (or subverted) by white artists, have other valences for artists of color,

who obviously are "raced" in a far more concrete and oppressive fashion?