Ruf, Beatrix (editor) et al. LAURA OWENS. 228 pp., hundreds of color and b&w illustrations. 4to, boards. Zurich, Kunsthalle Zurich in asociation with JRP/Ringier, 2007. This new book on the contemporary artist Laura Owens is a collection of all of her work to date. It ranges from paintings to wallpaper and textiles, showing her influences from the natural world, aesthetics of the 1960s, Dada performances, Japanese prints and Hindu beliefs. With a catalogue raisonne. Published to accompany a travelling exhibition. Text in English and German.

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Title: LAURA OWENS
Publisher: 2007
Publication Date: 2007
Language: English
ISBN 10: 3905770113
ISBN 13: 9783905770117
Binding: Hardcover

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Laura Owens once said of more doctrinaire painters that "the weight of art history is what gets you that crusty, stodgy feeling, when you look at a work of art and you feel that the person hasn't stepped outside, hasn't looked in other wings of the Met, hasn't gone to a natural history museum." There is no danger of that in her own good-natured and elegant works, which seem to emulate Rousseau, Grandma Moses and the aesthetics of the 1960s and of vintage decorative arts at once. Robots in the garden, lions, hunters, romance and war are some of the subjects parading through, under passing influences as wide ranging as Dada performance, Japanese prints and Hindu beliefs. Birds grow larger than the trees they perch on, cats sniff at a pair of skulls and monkeys exchange wary glances. Elsewhere, Owens has broken away from the fine arts to move into wallpaper and textiles. Beyond all this straightforward beauty is constant inquiry into her chosen media. She has rejected naturalism in favor of depiction, representation and an unashamed pleasure in ornamentation, which, with her delight in pictorial grace, affords decoration a new dignity. She combines the abstract with the representational in a highly personal vocabulary, from which she creates an elaborate, elegant and quietly exuberant whole. Laura Owens collects the artist's complete works to date.

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This expansive overview of Laura Owens’s career offers unique insights into the influences and sources behind the pioneering and unconventional work of one of today’s most influential artists.

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