Louise Lawler And Others - Hardcover

Isabelle Graw; Philipp Kaiser; Andrea Fraser; Birgit Pelzer; Jack Bankowsky; George Baker

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3775714642 ISBN 13: 9783775714648

Publisher: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2004

Synopsis

Louise Lawler subjects the concept of art to critical analysis by re-photographing her own drawings, paintings, and sculptures and incorporating aspects of their immediate surroundings into these "copies." Viewed with a certain detachment, her demystified reproductions also reveal the contextual and situational connotations of her artworks, which recede to a certain extent into the background. Lawler also applies these methods to the work of other artists, photographing their art pieces, particularly as they are mounted in private collections. These contextualizing photographs retain fragments of their surroundings, thus clarifying how the presentation and interpretation of artwork is never free of value judgment or environmental influence. This publication offers the first retrospective overview of the artistic accomplishments of Louise Lawler over the past 20 years. Included are a number of very recent works, some of them created especially for this book.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hatje Cantz Publishers
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 3775714642
• ISBN 13: 9783775714648
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160