This book explores the fusion of myth, history and geography which leads to ideas of primitivism, and looks at their construction, interpretation and consumption in Western culture. Contextualized by Susan Hiller's introductions to each section, discussions range from the origins of cultural colonialism to eurocentric ideas of primitive societies, including the use of primitive culture in constructing national identities, and the appropriation of primitivist imagery in modernist art. The result is a controversial critique of art theory, practice and politics, and a major enquiry into the history of primitivism and its implications for contemporary culture.

Myth of Primitivism: Perspectives on Art

Arts & Photography

Hiller, Susan

History & Criticism

Routledge

Explores the art and literature of many cultures as well as the data of analytical psychology and experimental science to elucidate the nature, varieties, and significance of dreams

Dreams: Visions of the Night (Art and Imagination)

History

Coxhead, David

Americas

Thames&Hudson

Susan Hiller's talks, lectures, conversations and exhibitions have taken place worldwide, from London and Glasgow to New York and Valencia. This collection documents her continuing involvement with the criteria shifts in cultural paradigms underlying contemporary debates in art practice and art criticism. The practicalities of Hiller's art practice and the everyday experience that informs it are kept fully in mind as she addresses such topics as the role of theory, gender, cultural pluralism, indigenous aesthetics, video performance art, surrealism and conceptual art.

Thinking About Art: Conversations With Susan Hiller

Individual Artists

Manchester Univ Pr

Susan Hiller's talks, lectures, conversations and exhibitions have taken place worldwide, from London and Glasgow to New York and Valencia. This collection documents her continuing involvement with the criteria shifts in cultural paradigms underlying contemporary debates in art practice and art criticism. The practicalities of Hiller's art practice and the everyday experience that informs it are kept fully in mind as she addresses such topics as the role of theory, gender, cultural pluralism, indigenous aesthetics, video performance art, surrealism and conceptual art.

Einzig, Barbara

Susan Hiller

Sculpture

Institute of Contemporary Arts

Building Bridges: 8 Visions, One Dream

Morris, Dennis

Winstanley, Paul

Bevan, Tony

Finn-Kelcey, Rose

Hoyt, Satch

Milroy, Lisa

Wentworth, Riichard

The Red Mansion Foundation

MOMS is the story of two young mothers whose paths crossed in 1980 after their husbands died suddenly within weeks of each other. Together they founded the first Arkansas chapter of THEOS, a support group for young widowed persons. In developing the organization, they developed an appreciation and respect for each other and realized that they shared the same basic values, strong faith and optimistic outlook--and that they could work as a team. 
Thus, they decided to go found their own company and to enter the new but up-and-coming world of computers. Quickly they realized that this was a field that was changing constantly but were willing to accept the challenge, knowing that God was providing a master plan for their lives. They balanced the dual roles of business owners and single mothers since Ann had three children and Susan one. 
Realizing that specialization was necessary for continued success, Ann and Susan decided to sell to and service the medical computer industry and changed the name of the company to Medical Office Management Systems, Inc. By the time that they sold the company nineteen years after its founding, they had more than 500 clients in twenty states. 
MOMS is a testament to what women can do when they have the faith and courage to face life head on. It recounts the events of these two lives from the time of the deaths of their husbands through the sale of the company almos twenty years later.

An Odyssey: From Moms to MOMS, Inc.

Baskette, Ann

MOMS Valley Press

Dream Machines takes up the theme of the transformative power of art, presenting works that propose the possibility of shifting the viewer's consciousness to induce reverie, hallucination, or transcendence. International and cross-generational, this book includes daily dream drawings, dream paintings, and real-life "dream machines," as well as photography, sound, video, and installation work that engage with mediumship and trance, intoxication, hypnosis, and out-of-body experience. Selected by the artist Susan Hiller and operating in the territory covered by her own work, Dream Machines is the latest in a series of exhibitions curated by distinguished artists.

Dream Machines

Fisher, Jean

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

University of California Press

This work surveys the ways in which Susan Hiller has worked with ephemeral artefacts to produce art of emotional depth and cultural insight, for example her investigations into the hidden meanings of everday objects such as popular postcards. This publication includes an essay by Guy Brett and an interview with the artist by Stuart Morgan. The catalogue section, which features colour plates of works, has been written by Rebecca Dimling Cochran following access to the artist's archives and is also illustrated with documentary photographs.

Biographies & Memoirs

Tate Gallery Pub

After the Freud Museum

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

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