Art History, After Sherrie Levine

Art History, After Sherrie Levine

This book examines the career of New York-based artist Sherrie Levine, whose 1981 series of photographs "after Walker Evans"â€”taken not from life but from Evansâ€™s famous depression-era documents of rural Alabamaâ€”became central examples in theorizing postmodernism in the visual arts in the 1980s. For the first in-depth examination of Levine, Howard Singerman surveys a wide variety of sources, both historical and theoretical, to assess an artist whose work was understood from the outset to challenge both the label "artist" and the idea of oeuvreâ€”and who has over the past three decades crafted a significant oeuvre of her own. Singerman addresses Levineâ€™s work after Evans, Brancusi, Malevich, and others as an experimental art historical practiceâ€”material reenactments of the way the work of art history is always doubled in and structured by language, and of the ways the art itself resists.

Country	USA
Author	Howard Singerman
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1
EISBN	9780520948464
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	University of California Press
Manufacturer	University of California Press
NumberOfPages	312
PublicationDate	2011-11-22
Publisher	University of California Press
ReleaseDate	2011-04-01
Studio	University of California Press

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