Elizabeth A.T. Smith

Lee Bontecou: A Retrospective

Elizabeth A.T. Smith

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2003

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54th Carnegie International

Elizabeth A.T. Smith; Laura Hoptman; Elizabeth Thomas; Branka Stipancic; Sarah Hromack

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Lee Bontecou: A Retrospective

Elizabeth A.T. Smith; Lee Bontecou; Ann Philbin; Donna M. De Salvo; Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.); Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.); UCLA Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center

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Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain: Selected Works from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Collection

Elizabeth A.T. Smith; Alison Pearlman; Julie Rodrigues

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Uta Barth

Elizabeth A.T. Smith

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Sarah Sze

Elizabeth A.T. Smith; Amada Cruz; Douglas Rushkoff

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Matta in America: Paintings and Drawings of the 1940s

Elizabeth A.T. Smith; Roberto Sebastian Matta Echaurren; Colette Dartnall; Calif.) Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles; Ill.) Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago; Miami Art Museum

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Katharina Fritsch

Elizabeth A.T. Smith; Katharina Fritsch; Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.)

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Techno Architecture

Elizabeth A.T. Smith

Techno Architecture examines the recent practice in architecture that has its roots in the early twentieth-century technological preoccupation with "machines for living." Elizabeth Smith suggests the ways in which four very different American practices use technology to bring structural expression to new heights, in some cases to invoke an almost nostalgic image of the machine (in contrast to today's slick digital imagery). Jones, Partners: Architecture (Los Angeles), RoTo (Los Angeles), TEN Arquitectos (Mexico City), and Smith-Miller + Hawkinson (New York) each approach the question of the machine and the application of technology with radically varying sensibilities. From Wes Jones's overt celebration of the mechanistic to Michael Rotondi and Clark Stevens's experimentation with Native American building traditions, from Enrique Norten's technological regionalism to Laurie Hawkinson and Henry Smith-Miller's sophisticated use of components from the aerospace industry, each architect's interpretation of technology results in unexpected and entirely novel buildings. As digital technologies begin to play an increasingly important role in architecture, Techno Architecture addresses the fundamental and timeless art and craft of building in the postmachine age. 320 illustrations, 108 in color.
4 X 4: a new series on contemporary international architecture
Each title includes:
* 4 concise architect profiles
* 16 influential projects
* reference section

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Blueprints for Modern Living: History and Legacy of the Case Study Houses

Elizabeth A.T. Smith

Between 1945 and 1966, 36 experimental prototypes were built as part of Southern California's Case Study House program. This book includes biographies of the 30 architects involved in the program plus a wealth of photos, drawings, plans, and scale models. 384 illustrations.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1989

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Cindy Sherman: Retrospective

Elizabeth A.T. Smith; Cindy Sherman; Amada Cruz; Calif.) Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles; Ill.) Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago

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Cindy Sherman: Retrospective

Elizabeth A.T. Smith; Amanda Cruz; Amelia Jones; Cindy Sherman; Calif.) Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles; Ill.) Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago

This comprehensive catalogue traces the career of Cindy Sherman, examining her achievements as one of the leading American artists of our time. By exploring the myriad constructions of female identity and the body in our culture, Sherman imitates and confronts assorted representational stereotypes, becoming for many an icon of the contemporary concerns of feminism and postmodernism. Essayists Amada Cruz, Elizabeth A. T. Smith, and Amelia Jones offer keen insight and observations from several distinct vantage points, demonstrating that Sherman's work is a lens through which to view contemporary art and its ongoing concern with the profound issues of the structures of the self. More than 200 images show the breadth of Sherman's body of work, from the Untitled Film Stills of the 1970s to series such as Centerfolds, Fashion, Disasters, Fairy Tales, and History Portraits, as well as photographs influenced by surrealist artists. Also included are intriguing excerpts from Sherman's notebooks, selections from her contact sheets, and numerous Polaroid studies, all of which shed light on the artist's process.

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