Louise Lawler / edited by Helen Molesworth with Taylor Walsh ; essays and interviews by Andrea Fraser, Kate Linker, Rosalind Krauss, Douglas Crimp, Louise Lawler, Bruce Hainley, George Baker, Rosalyn Deutsche, Helen Molesworth, and Stephen Melville.
Contributor(s): Molesworth, Helen Anne [editor of compilation]
| Walsh, Taylor [editor of compilation] | Krauss, Rosalind E [contributor] | Crimp, Douglas [contributor] | Lawler, Louise [contributor] | Deutsche, Rosalyn [contributor] | Baker, George (George Thomas) [contributor] | Molesworth, Helen Anne [contributor] | Linker, Kate [contributor] | Fraser, Andrea [contributor].
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BookSeries: October files ; 14.Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2013]Publisher: ©2013Description: x, 146 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780262018814 (hardback); 9780262518352 (paperback).Subject(s): Lawler, Louise -- Criticism and interpretationDDC classification: 709.2 LAW | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 709.2 LAW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00231085 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Louise Lawler has devoted her art practice to investigating the life cycle of art objects. Her photographs depict art in the collector's home, the museum, the auction house, and the commercial gallery, on loading docks, and in storage closets. Her work offers a sustained meditation on the strategies of display that shape art's reception and distribution. The cumulative effect of Lawler's photographs is a silent insistence that context is the primary shaper of art's meaning. Informed by feminism and institutional critique, Lawler's witty, poignant, and trenchant photos frequently pay attention to a host of overlooked details -- almost Freudian slips -- that ineffably and tacitly shore up what we conventionally think of as art's power. This book includes the earliest published text on Lawler's work; an examination of her ephemera (Lawler produced, among other things, matchbooks and paperweights); a rare interview with the artist, conducted by Douglas Crimp; a conversation between George Baker and Andrea Fraser on Lawler's work; and essays by writers including Rosalind Krauss, Rosalyn Deutsche, and Helen Molesworth, the volume's editor.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In and Out of Place (1985) / Andrea Fraser -- Rites of Exchange (1986) / Kate Linker -- Louise Lawler: Souvenir Memories (1996) / Rosalind Krauss -- Prominence Given, Authority Taken (2001) / Douglas Crimp and Louise Lawler -- Mata Hari Takes a Picture (2004) / Bruce Hainley -- Displacement and Condensation: A Conversation on the Work of Louise Lawler (2004) / George Baker and Andrea Fraser -- Louise Lawler's Rude Museum (2006) / Rosalyn Deutsche -- Louise Lawler: Just the Facts (2006) / Helen Molesworth -- A Thought of Photography (2007) / Stephen Melville.
"Louise Lawler has devoted her art practice to investigating the life cycle of art objects. Her photographs depict art in the collector's home, the museum, the auction house, and the commercial gallery, on loading docks, and in storage closets. Her work offers a sustained meditation on the strategies of display that shape art's reception and distribution. The cumulative effect of Lawler's photographs is a silent insistence that context is the primary shaper of art's meaning. Informed by feminism and institutional critique, Lawler's witty, poignant, and trenchant photos frequently pay attention to a host of overlooked details—almost Freudian slips—that ineffably and tacitly shore up what we conventionally think of as art's “power.” This book includes the earliest published text on Lawler's work; an examination of her ephemera (Lawler produced, among other things, matchbooks and paperweights); a rare interview with the artist, conducted by Douglas Crimp; a conversation between George Baker and Andrea Fraser on Lawler's work; and essays by writers including Rosalind Krauss, Rosalyn Deutsche, and Helen Molesworth, the volume's editor. The book traces the changing reception of Lawler's work from early preoccupations with appropriation to later discussions of affect." - Back cover.