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Traces the feminist icon Carolee Schneemann's prolific six-decade
output, spanning her remarkably diverse, transgressive, and
interdisciplinary expression Carolee Schneemann (1939-2019) was one
of the most experimental artists of the twentieth and early
twenty-first centuries. This book traces six decades of the
feminist icon's diverse, transgressive and interdisciplinary
expression through Schneemann's experimental early paintings,
sculptural assemblages and kinetic works; rarely seen photographs
of her radical performances; her pioneering films; and
groundbreaking multi-media installations. Contributors shed new
light on Schneemann's work, which addressed urgent topics from
sexual expression and the objectification of women to human
suffering and the violence of war. An artist who was concerned with
the precarious lived experience of both humans and animals, this
book positions Schneemann as one of the most relevant, provocative
and inspiring artists in recent years. Published in association
with Barbican Art Gallery Exhibition Schedule: Barbican Art
Gallery, London (September 8, 2022-January 8, 2023)
An illuminating study of an overlooked artist from the 1960s whose
work has recently returned to the limelight This is the first
in-depth study of the idiosyncratic ten-year career of Lee Lozano
(1930-1999), assuring this important artist a key place in
histories of post-war art. The book charts the entirety of Lozano's
production in 1960s New York, from her raucous drawings and
paintings depicting broken tools, genitalia, and other body parts
to the final exhibition of her spectacular series of abstract "Wave
Paintings" at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1970. Highly
regarded at the time, Lozano is now perhaps best known for Dropout
Piece (1970), a conceptual artwork and dramatic gesture with which
she quit the art world. Shortly afterwards she announced she would
have no further contact with other women. Her "dropout" and
"boycott of women" lasted until her death, by which time she was
all but forgotten. This book tackles head-on the challenges that
Lozano poses to art history-and especially to feminist art
history-attending to her failures as well as her successes, and
arguing that through dead ends and impasses she struggled to forge
an alternative mode of living. Lee Lozano: Not Working looks for
the means to think about complex figures like Lozano whose radical,
politically ambiguous gestures test our assumptions about feminism
and the "right way" to live and work.
Alison Wilding RA (b.1948) is one of Britain's foremost sculptors.
Tracing the trajectory of her artistic evolution, this original
publication provides the first critical survey of Wilding's rich
career. Known for her use of contrasting materials and often
pairing forms in precarious juxtapositions and balancing acts,
recent works combine string, steel and hair, mirrored glass,
silicone rubber, alabaster, sand and painted foam. Resisting
categorisation, Wilding's sculptural language steps beyond the
so-called 'new sculpture' which emerged within Britain in the
1980s, to embrace the European and American vocabularies for
producing large-scale abstract sculpture that appeared from the
1960s onwards. Drawing on extensive interviews with the artist and
referencing numerous secondary sources, this impeccably researched
and beautifully produced publication will situate Wilding's work
within its rightful place in the history of modern abstract
sculpture.
This beautifully illustrated book takes readers inside Samuel and
Gabrielle Lurie's dynamic private collection of contemporary
British art, an intended gift to the Yale Center for British Art.
Spanning the past four decades, the collection includes major works
by Ian Stephenson, Patrick Caulfield, and John Walker, as well as
important prints by Howard Hodgkin and R. B. Kitaj. At its core are
52 paintings and drawings by John Hoyland, widely considered one of
Britain's foremost abstract painters. The Independent Eye features
an interview with the Luries, as well as essays by leading critics
and writers, some of whom were and are personally acquainted with
the artists represented. These experts assess individual artists
and works, explore their inspirations and methods, and define their
shared experiences and values. They also address subjects such as
the overall importance of the collection and postwar art in
Britain. Distributed for the Yale Center for British Art Exhibition
Schedule: Yale Center for British Art (09/16/10-01/02/11)
The essays in this collection explore the extraordinarily rich
networks of international artists and art practices that emerged in
and around London during the 1960s and '70s, a period that saw an
explosion of new media and fresh attitudes and approaches to making
and thinking about art. The contributors to London Art Worlds
examine the many activities and movements that existed alongside
more established institutions in this period, from the rise of
cybernetics and the founding of alternative publications to the
public protests and new pedagogical models in London's art schools.
The essays explore how international artists and the rise of
alternative venues, publications, and exhibitions, along with a
growing mobilization of artists around political and cultural
issues ranging from feminism to democracy, pushed the boundaries of
the London art scene beyond the West End's familiar galleries and
posed a radical challenge to established modes of making and
understanding art. Engaging, wide-ranging, and original, London Art
Worlds provides a necessary perspective on the visual culture of
the London art scene in the 1960s and '70s. Art historians and
scholars of the era will find these essays especially valuable and
thought provoking. In addition to the editors, contributors to this
volume are Elena Crippa, Antony Hudek, Dominic Johnson, Carmen
Julia, Courtney J. Martin, Lucy Reynolds, Joy Sleeman, Isobel
Whitelegg, and Andrew Wilson.
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