Art History, After Sherrie Levine Paperback / softback
by Howard Singerman
Paperback / softback
Description
This book examines the career of New York-based artist Sherrie Levine, whose 1981 series of photographs "after Walker Evans" - taken not from life but from Evans's famous depression-era documents of rural Alabama - became central examples in theorizing postmodernism in the visual arts in the 1980s.
For the first in-depth examination of Levine, Howard Singerman surveys a wide variety of sources, both historical and theoretical, to assess an artist whose work was understood from the outset to challenge both the label "artist" and the idea of oeuvre - and who has over the past three decades crafted a significant oeuvre of her own.
Singerman addresses Levine's work after Evans, Brancusi, Malevich, and others as an experimental art historical practice - material reenactments of the way the work of art history is always doubled in and structured by language, and of the ways the art itself resists.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:312 pages, 8 color illustrations and 50 b-w photographs
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:22/11/2011
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- ISBN:9780520267220
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:312 pages, 8 color illustrations and 50 b-w photographs
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:22/11/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9780520267220