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Art History, After Sherrie Levine

Art History, After Sherrie Levine

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Art HistoryAmerican Art - GeneralIndividual Artists

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ISBN10: 0520267222
ISBN13: 9780520267220
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Nov 22 2011
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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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