<p>Twelve contemporary American artists interview twelve contemporary American artists. Includes Vija Celmins interviewed by Chuck Close. Mike Kelley interviewed by John Miller. Anne Scott Plummer interviewed by Viola Frey. Laurie Simmons interviewed by Sarah Charlesworth. Jimmy DeSana interviewed by Laurie Simmons. Introduction by Dave Hickey. 256p.</p>

Between Artists: 12 Contemporary American Artists Interview 12 Contemporary American Artists

Arts & Photography

Hickey, Dave (Intro By)

History & Criticism

A.R.T. PRESS

In this frank and provocative conversation, Thom Andersen and William E. Jones explore an expansive number of topics in relation to their respective film and art practices, among them: the advent of HD technology, experimental filmmakers and their strategies, Los Angeles, "militant nostalgia," Jesus as revolutionary, the limitations of the art world, art criticism, gay culture, William Morris, and "the Reagans at church."

Thom Andersen / William E. Jones (Between Artists)

Thom Andersen

William E. Jones

The book Double Bind documents conversations between artist Leigh Ledare and art historian Rhea Anastas, provoked by viewing Ledare's project of the same name as installed at The Box in Los Angeles (2012) and Mitchell-Innes & Nash in New York (2014). Ledare's installation puts in play a series of overlaying comparative structures: it juxtaposes nearly one-thousand photographs of the artist's ex-wife (half taken by Ledare, half taken by her current husband, according to a script conceived by Ledare and enacted by all three), with a large collection of appropriated mass-media materials. In their wide-ranging critical dialogue, Ledare and Anastas probe the complexities of viewing Double Bind's intimate performances and prolific imagery-from experiences of sensory overload or irritation, to notes of pleasure and humor-enlisting sexual-difference critiques along with a heterogeneous set of cultural and theoretical positions. Arranged in six sections, the dialogue addresses key concepts that structure Double Bind (as well as Ledare's practice broadly): viewing, systemic conditions, enactment, installation and mass media, genealogy, and affect. Installation views of the New York exhibition, taken by Ledare exclusively for this book, foreground the subjective nature of experiencing the work, and anchor the coauthors' open testing of present-day models of aesthetic and social critique within an ethics of actually looking. The dialogue also appears with an introduction by Anastas, a preface by Ledare, and a chronology of Double Bind exhibitions and publications to date.

Double Bind

Ledare, Leigh & Rhea Anastas

"A Juried Selection of Recent Works by World Contemporary Artists." Contains works in the following categories: Natural Image, Imaginative Excursions, Dark Aphasics & Elegant Sarcasms, Surrealistic Billows, Transcending Visible Reality and Expressional Descriptions.

New Art International

Reference

Sedley, Jeremy

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