Zoe Leonard

Zoe Leonard

Author: Douglas Crimp

Publisher: Prestel

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783791357317

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Accompanying a major museum survey of the work of Zoe Leonard, this gorgeous book offers an in-depth look at one of the most influential artists of her generation. From aerial landscapes to the Alaskan wilderness, American cities to natural history museums, there are few subjects that Zoe Leonard has not tackled in her 30-year career. Working primarily in photography and sculpture, Leonard consistently confronts the realities of change, love, and loss. This book brings audiences up to date on Leonard's impressive body of work and accompanies a long-awaited retrospective exhibition. It features images and examinations from every one of Leonard's major series, including her early aerial and museum photographs, her landmark works--Strange Fruit and Analogue--and her most recent works, "In the Wake." Essays in the book range from the critical to the personal, including explorations of sexual politics, immigration, and family. Breathtaking in scope and bringing together every facet of Leonard's oeuvre, this volume celebrates Leonard's unflinching eye and her intimate art. Published in association with The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles


Glitch Feminism

Glitch Feminism

Author: Legacy Russell

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2020-09-29

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 1786632683

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The divide between the digital and the real world no longer exists: we are connected all the time. How do we find out who we are within this digital era? Where do we create the space to explore our identity? How can we come together and create solidarity? The glitch is often dismissed as an error, a faulty overlaying, but, as Legacy Russell shows, liberation can be found within the fissures between gender, technology and the body that it creates. The glitch offers the opportunity for us to perform and transform ourselves in an infinite variety of identities. In Glitch Feminism, Russell makes a series of radical demands through memoir, art and critical theory, and the work of contemporary artists who have travelled through the glitch in their work. Timely and provocative, Glitch Feminism shows how the error can be a revolution.


Zoe Leonard

Zoe Leonard

Author: Zoe Leonard

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783865214942

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Photographer Zoe Leonard practices a type of cerebral roaming combined with carefully considered observation. For more than 20 years she has crisscrossed nature and culture, cityscapes and museums, always searching for signs that say something about structures, about natural and cultural conditions and the contradictions, parallels and connections between them. Leonard's photographs of anatomical wax figures, fashion shows, trees and fences present figures in sparse black-and-white images that open up visual fields of thought and reveal within them our visible world--the concrete and established structures that make up our reality. Leonard first created an international stir at the Documenta 9 exhibition in Kassel, Germany, in 1992, when she placed black-and-white photographs of female genitalia in the context of a male-dominated museum. Since then, the political aspects of her work have formed a backdrop for her constant struggle with shape, imagery and the union of symbols and content. This is the first book to showcase Leonard's complete oeuvre.


Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner

Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner

Author: Christine Macel

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2015-01-01

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0300214820

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Published on the occasion of an exhibition celebrating the Wagners' promised gift of more than 850 works of art to the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Musaee national d'art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, November 20, 2015-March 6, 2016, and at the Centre Pompidou, June 16, 2016-January 2017.


Everything You Know

Everything You Know

Author: Zoe Heller

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2001-01-30

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 0743411951

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Ostracized after his conviction of manslaughter in England, Willy Muller leaves everything, including his two young daughters, for Los Angeles. He begins a new life, but not before writing a bestselling tell-all about his miserable marriage and the "accident" that ended it. Years later, Willy's past comes back as news that his daughter committed suicide arrives, and her diaries arrive in the mail.


Queer Art

Queer Art

Author: Renate Lorenz

Publisher: transcript Verlag

Published: 2014-03-31

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 383941685X

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A queer theory of visual art - based on extensive readings of art works Queer Art traces the question of how strategies of denormalization initiated by visual arts can be continued through writing. In the book's three chapters art theoretical debates are combined with queer theory, post-colonial theory, and (dis-)ability studies, proposing the three terms radical drag, transtemporal drag, and abstract drag. The works discussed include those by Zoe Leonard, Shinique Smith, Jack Smith, Wu Ingrid Tsang, Ron Vawter, Bob Flanagan, Henrik Olesen, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Sharon Hayes, and Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz.


Tomma Abts

Tomma Abts

Author: Laura Hoptman

Publisher: Phaidon Press

Published: 2008-06-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780714848822

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The first major monograph dedicated to the work of the internationally acclaimed abstract painter.


River of Shadows

River of Shadows

Author: Rebecca Solnit

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2004-03-02

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0142004103

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A New York Times Notable Book Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, The Mark Lynton History Prize, and the Sally Hacker Prize for the History of Technology “A panoramic vision of cultural change” —The New York Times Through the story of the pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge, the author of Orwell's Roses explores what it was about California in the late 19th-century that enabled it to become such a center of technological and cultural innovation The world as we know it today began in California in the late 1800s, and Eadweard Muybridge had a lot to do with it. This striking assertion is at the heart of Rebecca Solnit’s new book, which weaves together biography, history, and fascinating insights into art and technology to create a boldly original portrait of America on the threshold of modernity. The story of Muybridge—who in 1872 succeeded in capturing high-speed motion photographically—becomes a lens for a larger story about the acceleration and industrialization of everyday life. Solnit shows how the peculiar freedoms and opportunities of post–Civil War California led directly to the two industries—Hollywood and Silicon Valley—that have most powerfully defined contemporary society.