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Louise Lawler by Helen Molesworth at Abbey's Bookshop,
Louise Lawler
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Helen Molesworth Taylor Walsh (Curatorial Assistant, MoMA)

Louise Lawler

Helen Molesworth,  Taylor Walsh (Curatorial Assistant, MoMA),  Charles F. Stevens (Salk Institute for Biological Studies) ,  Norbert Schwarz (Institute For Social Research)

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English
MIT Press
01 February 2013
Art & design styles: Postmodernism; Individual artists, art monographs
Series: October Files
Essays and interviews that examine the work of an artist whose witty, poignant, and trenchant photographs investigate the life cycle of art objects.

Louise Lawler has devoted her art practice to investigating the life cycle of art objects. Her photographs depict art in the collector's home, the museum, the auction house, and the commercial gallery, on loading docks, and in storage closets. Her work offers a sustained meditation on the strategies of display that shape art's reception and distribution. The cumulative effect of Lawler's photographs is a silent insistence that context is the primary shaper of art's meaning. Informed by feminism and institutional critique, Lawler's witty, poignant, and trenchant photos frequently pay attention to a host of overlooked details-almost Freudian slips-that ineffably and tacitly shore up what we conventionally think of as art's ""power.""

This book includes the earliest published text on Lawler's work; an examination of her ephemera (Lawler produced, among other things, matchbooks and paperweights); a rare interview with the artist, conducted by Douglas Crimp; a conversation between George Baker and Andrea Fraser on Lawler's work; and essays by writers including Rosalind Krauss, Rosalyn Deutsche, and Helen Molesworth, the volume's editor. The book traces the changing reception of Lawler's work from early preoccupations with appropriation to later discussions of affect.
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Edited by:   , ,
Imprint:   MIT Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Volume:   14
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 8mm
Weight:   318g
ISBN:   9780262518352
ISBN 10:   026251835X
Series:   October Files
Pages:   160
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 18
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely

Helen Molesworth is Chief Curator at the Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston. She edited Louise Lawler's Twice Untitled and Other Pictures (looking back), published by the Wexner Center for the Arts and distributed by the MIT Press. Taylor Walsh is a PhD candidate at Harvard University and a Curatorial Assistant at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, where she is a coorganizer of the retrospectiveBruce Nauman- Disappearing Acts.

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