Liza Lou

Author : Julia Bryan-Wilson
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847870758
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liza Lou written by Julia Bryan-Wilson and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive book on the work of Liza Lou, whose popular and critically acclaimed installations made entirely of beads consider the important themes of women, community, and the valorization of labor. Liza Lou first gained attention in 1996 when her room-sized sculpture Kitchen was shown at the New Museum in New York. Representing five years of individual labor, this groundbreaking work subverted standards of art by introducing glass beads as a fine art material. The project blurred the rigid boundary between fine art and craft, and established Lou's long-standing exploration of materiality, process, and beauty. Working within a craft métier has led the artist to work in a variety of socially engaged settings, from community groups in Los Angeles, to a collective she founded in Durban, South Africa. Over the past fifteen years, Lou has focused on a poetic approach to abstraction as a way to highlight the process underlying her work. In this comprehensive volume that considers the entirety of Lou’s singular vision, curators, art historians, and artists offer important perspectives on the breadth of the work.

Author : Mercer Mayer
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780027652208
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liza Lou and the Yeller Belly Swamp written by Mercer Mayer and published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1984-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1976 by Parents' Magazine Press.

Author : Marcia Tucker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520265955
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short Life of Trouble written by Marcia Tucker and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aside from meeting some of the most famous artists of our time, from Marcel Duchamp to Bob Dylan, Tucker's personal story involves a tragic family life and years as a starving artist, related poignantly but without pandering. Deftly edited by close friend and artist Lou, this is an arresting tour of a life devoted to new art, with a perfectly charming guide"--PW Annex Reviews.

Author : Liza Lou
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liza Lou written by Liza Lou and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay by Jeanette WintersonInterview with Tim Marlow

Author : Ezra Shales
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780238843
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shape of Craft written by Ezra Shales and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today when we hear the word “craft,” a whole host of things come immediately to mind: microbreweries, artisanal cheeses, and an array of handmade objects. Craft has become so overused, that it can grate on our ears as pretentious and strain our credulity. But its overuse also reveals just how compelling craft has become in modern life. In The Shape of Craft, Ezra Shales explores some of the key questions of craft: who makes it, what do we mean when we think about a crafted object, where and when crafted objects are made, and what this all means to our understanding of craft. He argues that, beyond the clichés, craft still adds texture to sterile modern homes and it provides many people with a livelihood, not just a hobby. Along the way, Shales upends our definition of what is handcrafted or authentic, revealing the contradictions in our expectations of craft. Craft is—and isn’t—what we think.

Author : Peter Schjeldahl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liza Lou written by Peter Schjeldahl and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This jewel-like book documents Kitchen and Back Yard, Lou's extravagant domestic environments made entirely of tiny glass beads-millions of them! In Kitchen, the walls, floors, stove, refrigerator, cabinets, tables, dishes, water in the sink, and even the debris in the dustpan are brilliantly encrusted. Even more mammoth in scale is the 600-square-foot Back Yard, with its quarter of a million beaded blades of grass, its beaded fruit trees, rose garden, clothesline, barbecue grill, and picnic table laden with food. Hallucinatory, witty, and sublime, these suburban dioramas are a breathtaking testament to one woman's dazzling mission. Essays by Peter Schjeldahl and Marcia Tucker.

Author : Liza Lou
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781906072582
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liza Lou written by Liza Lou and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at the White Cube, London, 20 April - 26 May 2012.

Author : Silvia Bottinelli
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1682260259
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Taste of Art written by Silvia Bottinelli and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Taste of Art offers a sample of scholarly essays that examine the role of food in Western contemporary art practices. The contributors are scholars from a range of disciplines, including art history, philosophy, film studies, and history. As a whole, the volume illustrates how artists engage with food as matter and process in order to explore alternative aesthetic strategies and indicate countercultural shifts in society. The collection opens by exploring the theoretical intersections of art and food, food art’s historical root in Futurism, and the ways in which food carries gendered meaning in popular film. Subsequent sections analyze the ways in which artists challenge mainstream ideas through food in a variety of scenarios. Beginning from a focus on the body and subjectivity, the authors zoom out to look at the domestic sphere, and finally the public sphere. Here are essays that study a range of artists including, among others, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Daniel Spoerri, Dieter Roth, Joseph Beuys, Al Ruppersberg, Alison Knowles, Martha Rosler, Robin Weltsch, Vicki Hodgetts, Paul McCarthy, Luciano Fabro, Carries Mae Weems, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Janine Antoni, Elżbieta Jabłońska, Liza Lou, Tom Marioni, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Michael Rakowitz, and Natalie Jeremijenko.

Author : Pat McKissack
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0689851944
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Precious and the Boo Hag written by Pat McKissack and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the Newbery Honor-winning "The Dark-Thirty" comes a deliciously funny, not-too-scary picture book featuring a spunky heroine and the Boo Hag, a crafty spirit that will stop at nothing to get inside the house. Full color.

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Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847848302
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studio Job written by and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blurring the lines between industrial design and art installation, Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel of Studio Job have vaulted into the top ranks of contemporary design. Studio Job redefines the applied arts for the contemporary age. Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel’s collaboration creates highly expressive work where the physical potential of the materials they use—often bronze or laser-cut marquetry—is pushed to the limit, with an approach more in keeping with that of traditional guilds than industrial design. Studio Job: Monkey Business includes furnishings, sculptures, exhibitions, commissioned interiors, and the designers’ own home, tracing the past five years of Studio Job’s creative vision. Opulent, intricate, and ironic, the work of Studio Job combines an extraordinarily high level of craftsmanship with extreme ornamentation. Studio Job draws from the traditional and the topical, the organic and the artificial. With design inspired by illuminated manuscripts and more than 200 sketches, concept renderings, and photographs, Studio Job: Monkey Business is the ultimate expression of two of the most influential designers working today.