Leslie Thornton

Natalie Bell, Dan Kidner, Milan Ther

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Sternberg Press
22 February 2022

Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960; Individual artists, art monographs; Film, TV & Radio

Produced on the occasion of a major solo exhibition of Leslie Thornton at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, as well as a recent solo exhibition at Kunstverein Nurnberg, this richly illustrated volume will be the first monograph on this important artist and filmmaker, and offers essential, foundational scholarship on Thornton's influential work in film and video.

Thornton's early encounters with experimental, structuralist, and cinema verite traditions fueled her iconoclastic take on the moving image and gave shape to her practice of weaving together her own footage and voice with archival film and audio. In part through her forceful and dynamic use of sound, Thornton exposes the limits of language and vision in her works, while acknowledging the ways that language and vision nevertheless remain central to scientific discourse and narrative in general. Her work consistently interrogates modes of representation and the violence of looking, pushing beyond critiques of the gaze to consider biases in perception, or the way voice and sound can undermine an otherwise dominant visual narrative.

Copublished with MIT List Visual Arts Center and Kunstverein N rnberg

The first monograph on artist and filmmaker Leslie Thornton- essential, foundational scholarship on her influential work in film and video.

Produced on the occasion of a major solo exhibition of Leslie Thornton at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, as well as a recent solo exhibition at Kunstverein Nurnberg, this richly illustrated volume will be the first monograph on this important artist and filmmaker, and offers essential, foundational scholarship on Thornton's influential work in film and video.

Thornton's early encounters with experimental, structuralist, and cinema verite traditions fueled her iconoclastic take on the moving image and gave shape to her practice of weaving together her own footage and voice with archival film and audio. In part through her forceful and dynamic use of sound, Thornton exposes the limits of language and vision in her works, while acknowledging the ways that language and vision nevertheless remain central to scientific discourse and narrative in general. Her work consistently interrogates modes of representation and the violence of looking, pushing beyond critiques of the gaze to consider biases in perception, or the way voice and sound can undermine an otherwise dominant visual narrative.

Copublished with MIT List Visual Arts Center and Kunstverein N rnberg

Edited by: Natalie Bell, Dan Kidner, Milan Ther
Imprint: Sternberg Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 203mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 913g
ISBN: 9783956795985
ISBN 10: 3956795989
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 22 February 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Natalie Bell is curator at the MIT List Visual Arts Center. She was previously Associate Curator at the New Museum, New York, where she organized over a dozen solo exhibitions and co-curated several major group exhibitions. Dan Kidner is a curator and critic based in London. He is a senior lecturer in the School of Art at Kingston University. Milan Ther is a curator and writer who since 2018 has served as Director of Kunstverein N rnberg-Albrecht D rer Gesellschaft, where he recently organized Leslie Thornton's exhibition GROUND (2020).

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Natalie Bell, Dan Kidner, Milan Ther

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