Sharon Lockhart: Pine Flat

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Howard Singerman (Phyllis and Joseph Caroff Chair, Hunter College of the City University of New York) Mark Lewis

Sharon Lockhart

Pine Flat

Howard Singerman (Phyllis and Joseph Caroff Chair, Hunter College of the City University of New York), Mark Lewis

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Afterall Publishing
18 February 2020

Art & design styles: from c 1960; Individual artists, art monographs

Series: Afterall Books / One Work

A nuanced reading of an artwork that explores a place, transitory and pastoral, where childhood might be lived and imagined differentlySharon Lockhart's Pine Flat (2006) takes its name from a small hamlet in the foothills of the western slope of the Sierra Nevadas, just inside the Giant Sequoia National Monument. The work itself comprises three distinct parts- a set of three photographs of landscapes; a larger set of posed studio portraits of children and young teenagers; and a 138-minute 16-millimeter film, which is itself assembled from twelve ten-minute scenes-each a single immobile take-divided in half by a ten-minute intermission. This volume in Afterall's One Work series offers a nuanced reading of Lockhart's work, with color illustrations from both series of photographs and the film.

Art historian Howard Singerman sees in Pine Flat not a straightforward portrait of a community of children or ethnography of a place. Rather, the work explores the possibility of a space for childhood in which children have the right to intimacy, innocence, and interest outside adult narratives. The children in Pine Flat are posed formally and conventionally, but the space they occupy and the identities they construct are their own. Youth culture has long been exploited, to sell itself in order to be sold to; today, the rights of children to their own childhoods are constantly eroded. In Pine Flat, Singerman argues, Lockhart proposes a place, transitory and pastoral, ""where childhood might be lived differently, imagined under a different order of power and possibility.""

By: Howard Singerman (Phyllis and Joseph Caroff Chair Hunter College of the City University of New York)
Series edited by: Mark Lewis
Imprint: Afterall Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781846382031
ISBN 10: 1846382033
Series: Afterall Books / One Work
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 18 February 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Howard Singerman is Phyllis and Joseph Caroff Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at Hunter College, City University of New York. He is the author of Art Subjects- Making Artists in the American University and Art History, after Sherrie Levine and editor of Sherrie Levine (MIT Press).