Offers a look at the work and life of the American artist who uses such materials as glass, metal, wood, paper, ink, paint, and wax in her work

Kiki Smith (LITTLE, BROWN A)

Arts & Photography

POSNER, Helaine

Frankel, David

Smith, Kiki

History & Criticism

Bulfinch Pr

The Culture of Violence presents a broad interdisciplinary approach to the subject of violence as it arises in the media, the lives of children and their families, and in the work of artists such as Bruce Nauman, Ida Applebroog, Mel Chin, Kristin Oppenheim, Lucinda Devlin, Gregory Green, Leon Golub, Richard Misrach and Sue Williams. Organized around thematic categories that traverse class and gender, and that range from political to personal expressions of violence, including terrorism and hate crimes, government-sanctioned execution, youth and gang violence, street crime and domestic violence, The Culture of Violence includes a conversation on violence and culture in medieval epics and contemporary media, and a proscriptive essay on coping with family violence.

The Culture of Violence

Green, Gregory

Jenkins, Henry

Cohen, Elizabeth

Canada, Geoffrey

Kruger, Barbara

Golub, Leon

Gonzalez-Torres, Felix

Diggs, Peggy

Coe, Sue

Applebroog, Ida

Wilson, Marion

CAIN, James

Harper, Sharon

Talley, Michael

Chin, Mel

Harkavy, Donna

Leininger, Michael

B, Beth

Cole, Willie

Davlin, Luninda

Kaplowitz, Jane

McCallum, Bradley

Oppenheim, Kristin

Tisdale, Daniel

University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Kiki Smith: Telling Tales accompanies a major exhibition at the International Center of Photography. Smith, best known for her sculptures of the human body, presents her recent photographic and multimedia work on the theme of fairy tales. The centerpiece of this book is the full-color visual essay of her renditions and investigations of the characters of Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf, the biblical Eve juxtaposed with Snow White, and various enigmatic female puppets. Through these symbolic female figures, the artist explores themes of temptation and sexuality, attraction and danger, and the impact of knowledge. Myths, fairy tales, and childhood fantasies predominate.

Kiki Smith: Telling Tales

Individual Artists

International Center of Photography

48 pages. Paperback exhibition catalogue, bound in stiff illustrated paper covers. Exhibition schedule is pasted somewhat askew on the title page. Else, the binding is tight, with no internal markings. Published on the occasion of the exhibition presented at four U.S. venues between 1992-1993. Texts in English, with illustrations in full color.

Per Kirkeby: Paintings and Drawings

Kirkeby, Per

Albert and Vera List Visual Arts Center

Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati, Ohio)

Drawing

Massachusetts Inst Technology

Leon Golub and Nancy Spero, artistic and marital partners for over 40 years, have created two sustained and uncompromising bodies of work that explore themes of power and vulnerability by confronting the social and political realities of our time. Golub's primary subject has been male aggression and its vulnerability; his large scale canvases are searing visions of brutality, violence and agony. Spero's art has been concerned with degrees of human suffering. In extended series such as Torture of Women, she links sadistic sexuality to the abuse of power, combining ancient and contemporary tales of gynophobic violence. Published to accompany the exhibition at the List Visual Arts Center at MIT. War and Memory includes an overview of the artists as well as an essay by curators Katy Kline and Helaine Posner.

Nancy Spero & Leon Golub: War And Memory

MIT List Visual Arts Center

extremely rare,very good condition

Forefront: Cheryl Laemmle

Sterling, Susan Fisher

National Museum of Women in the Arts(U. S.)

Natl Museum of Women in the Arts

Through her explorations of the human body and the natural world, internationally acclaimed artist Kiki Smith has confronted the most urgent social and spiritual issues of our day. Direct and accessible, Smith's expressive art engages social and cultural issues in a sometimes viscerally disturbing way. In her recent work, Smith has extended these themes, incorporating rites of passage and cycles of life, death, and rebirth through an iconography of animal, human, and fairy tale imagery. Helaine Posner's monograph is a comprehensive survey of Smith's work in installation, sculpture, and graphic media. She discusses its origins and proposes an interpretive framework, locating it with the artistic traditions that have nourished Smith and tracing its development from the 1980s to present. An interview with Smith adds the artist's own perspective on the work.

Kiki Smith

The Monacelli Press

The first monograph on the architectural sculptor and installation artist and long-time collaborator with the New York School poets 
Best known for creating large-scale installation work inspired by American vernacular architecture, Dennis finds beauty in places shaped by ordinary people, which become repositories for memory and feelings. Her seemingly familiar yet often darkly mysterious sites evoke memories, encourage reflection, and allude to the transient nature of life. This book contextualizes Dennis’s work within contemporary art and the women’s movements and traces the arc of her career, tracing the evolution of her architectural sculpture over more than forty years, exploring her artistic collaborations with poets, and presenting her most recent work, a series of gouaches and dioramas, for the first time. 
A conversation between Dennis and painter Rackstraw Downes brings to life the artist’s influences through her own words. With insightful text by feminist art scholar Helaine Posner, plus commentary from Dennis on the sources and process of creating the work, this book is an essential addition to the libraries of collectors and art historians interested in the architectural sculpture movement of the 1970s, and all those interested in feminism in art.

Donna Dennis: Poet in Three Dimensions

Miller, Nicole

Downes, Rackstraw

Humor & Entertainment

Offering a radical rewriting of the history of contemporary art from a feminist perspective, four distinguished authors explore the lineages of performance, abstraction, craft and ecofeminism in ways that reveal the debt these important genres owe to the work of pioneering women artists. The painters, sculptors and performance artists featured here have shaped ideas now dominating the art world: the vulnerability of the environment, the rise of activist art, the challenge to the reign of high technology (including digital culture), and the development of a new language of abstraction. Having demolished the linear narrative of modernism, the privileging of a white male ethnocentric vision, the division of high and low art and the separation of art from larger social issues, feminist artists laid the groundwork for the globalised, multi-media, postmodern art world of today.Illustrated with a spread of work from the last sixty years (and including contextual discussion of earlier practitioners), this book makes a compelling case for placing feminist art and artists at the heart of contemporary art.

Mothers of Invention: The Feminist Roots of Contemporary Art

Scott, Sue

Heartney, Eleanor

Princenthal, Nancy

Lund Humphries

Looks at the achievements and influence of twelve contemporary women artists, including Nancy Spero, Judy Pfaff, Ann Hamilton, and Ellen Gallagher.

After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art

Reference

Prestel Pub

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