Art history, after Sherrie Levine /
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| Author / Creator: | Singerman, Howard. |
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| Imprint: | Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012. |
| Description: | xii, 297 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8541502 |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | xii, 297 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520267213 0520267214 9780520267220 0520267222 |
