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Art History, After Sherrie Levine
Howard Singerman
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Description for Art History, After Sherrie Levine
Paperback. Examines the career of New York-based artist Sherrie Levine, whose 1981 series of photographs "after Walker Evans" - taken from Evans' famous depression-era documents of rural Alabama - became central examples in theorizing postmodernism in the visual arts in the 1980s. Num Pages: 312 pages, 8 color illustrations and 50 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 3JJPN; ACXJ8; AGB; AJB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 594.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
312
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520267220
SKU
V9780520267220
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About Howard Singerman
Howard Singerman is Professor of Contemporary Art and Theory at the University of Virginia and is the author of Art Subjects: Making Artists in the American University (UC Press).
Reviews for Art History, After Sherrie Levine
A critical examination of how the art world's singular characterization of Levine's work began.
Nogin Chung Afterimage A hugely ambitious text... Singerman masterfully retools art history in favor of deep, precisionist yet associative reading.
Judith Rodenbeck X-TRA
Nogin Chung Afterimage A hugely ambitious text... Singerman masterfully retools art history in favor of deep, precisionist yet associative reading.
Judith Rodenbeck X-TRA